When to Make Changes to Your Training w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash #810
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The crew breaks down how to know when it’s time to pivot your training. From bodybuilding and Olympic lifting to CrossFit, strongman, and martial arts, they share what decades under the bar have taught them about adapting for longevity, avoiding injury, and keeping fitness enjoyable.
In this episode, you will learn:
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How to recognize when your training is no longer serving you
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Safer alternatives to Olympic lifts for maintaining speed and power
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Why jiu-jitsu has become the go-to sport for retired strength athletes
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How strongman-style training and outdoor labor can replace conventional workouts
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The role of play, community, and nature in sustaining lifelong fitness
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| 0:00.0 | Shrug family this week on Barbell Shrug the homies are back and today we're talking about how you know it is time for you to transition pivot from what you're doing in the gym, nutrition, etc. |
| 0:10.6 | So you can get more return and enjoyment on your investment into that time in the gym. |
| 0:17.6 | As always friends, make sure you get over to rapid health report.com. That is where Dan Garner, |
| 0:21.4 | Dr. Rini Alpin, are doing a free lab, lifestyle, and performance analysis. You're not access that at rapid health report.com. Friends, let's get into the show. Welcome to Barbell Shrug. Manor's Barnard. Doug Lars and Coach Travis Smash. The homies are back today. Today we are going to be talking about when the right time for you to pivot your training |
| 0:43.2 | modalities, whether it's the intensity, the way that you are training, or just having a longer |
| 0:49.7 | vision to how you can really maintain fitness for the rest of your life. |
| 0:55.1 | Yes. |
| 0:56.1 | Which is, dude, how many different types of fitness have you attacked since you were like |
| 1:03.1 | 13 years old? |
| 1:05.1 | When did you start lifting weights, mash? |
| 1:07.1 | 11. |
| 1:07.9 | 11. |
| 1:08.8 | Oh, really? |
| 1:09.4 | Doug, you were like 14, right? Yeah gymnastics I did gymnastics growing up so I had like |
| 1:14.8 | strength training experience so speak but I didn't start doing cleans and deadlifts and squats and so I was 14 |
| 1:18.8 | that's right yeah yeah I was doing gymnastics super super young too the uh that's like a whole |
| 1:25.2 | another show and training our kids on things like that you, |
| 1:27.8 | Masch, |
| 1:28.1 | you have your whole thing, |
| 1:28.7 | but yeah. |
| 1:29.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.6 | I started officially lifting weights |
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