Who Is The Most Complete Strength Athlete? Strongman, One Ton Challenge, Oly Lifter, or Powerlifter w/ Travis Mash, Ryan Fischer, Anders Varner, and Doug Larson — Barbell Shrugged #424
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2019
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
This episode starts with a recap of the recent trip to Eleiko HQ in Halmstad Sweden. The guys made their own barbells, took a cold bath in the North Sea, sat in steaming hot saunas, ate delicious food, and trained at the baddest gym in the world. It was an experience unlike any other.
The second hour, recorded in Copenhagen Denmark is a heavy discussion on training, strength, and a debate on who the most complete strength athletes in the world.
In this episode of Barbell Shrugged, Anders Varner and Doug Larson discuss:
Making the best barbells in the world
Eating Swedish cuisine and how healthy the people are in Scandinavia
Why One Ton Challenge athletes are the most complete strength athletes in the world.
Bringing the One Ton Challenge to CrossFit Halmstad
What is takes to be a complete strength athlete
And more…
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| 0:00.0 | We're gonna be in New York. |
| 0:01.6 | Come hang out with us. |
| 0:02.6 | We've got two trips planned. |
| 0:04.1 | For the remainder of the year, |
| 0:05.6 | we're gonna be in Winston-Salem hanging out |
| 0:07.0 | at Mash Elite Performance doing tons of shows. |
| 0:10.5 | There's a rumor, |
| 0:11.6 | Gigi Mufu is gonna be in the house. |
| 0:13.6 | Hope he does the overhead squats, |
| 0:14.8 | splits on the chairs thing. |
| 0:17.0 | It's gonna be super rad. |
| 0:18.0 | Gonna go kick it with Travis. |
| 0:19.1 | We're gonna watch a video, |
| 0:20.8 | a bunch of podcasts. |
| 0:22.0 | We're gonna be doing life is so good. |
| 0:24.3 | I'm excited for the end of the year. |
| 0:26.2 | Also, we're in the middle of, |
| 0:27.5 | get one ton of challenge launch. |
| 0:30.4 | A bunch of people reach out, |
| 0:32.0 | wondering when to start the program. |
| 0:33.5 | We're going to be starting the program |
| 0:34.8 | with an eight week back squat cycle, |
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