Why You Need Barbell Medicine with Cassi Niemann (Episode 75)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Whether you’re training for a tri, into CrossFit, or just want to be strong for life, barbells are the most effective way to get full-body strong in very little time. Barbell lifting also builds bone and muscle, improves stability and mobility, and makes you feel like a complete badass. This week we talk all about why barbells are the best training medicine and how to get started with coach and competitive strength and rowing athlete, Cassi Niemann.

Cassi is a Barbell Medicine Coach and the lead UCanRow2 Master Rowing Instructor with Concept2. She has certifications as a Precision Nutrition Level 1 coach and as a Pregnancy & Postpartum Athleticism Coach. She trains clients online around the world and in-person at Iron Soul Gym in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is also the co-host of More Female Strength Podcast. You can learn more about her at www.cassiniemann.com

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.7	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:30.6	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:33.2	All right, break out the chalk because this week we're talking barbells with barbell medicine coach
0:39.4	Cassie Neiman. I loved this conversation because for the longest time, I was one of those women
0:45.5	who just didn't think barbells were for me. I wasn't opposed to them per se, but I was actively
0:51.8	disinterested. I figured they were great for power lifters, but endurance
0:56.1	athletes, eh, women who just wanted to get strong, eh, and then I tried them, and I totally got it.
1:03.5	As Cassie so elegantly says in this show, barbells are the way to get the most bang for your
1:09.0	training buck, and to get stronger without taking
1:11.6	extra time and effort away from your primary sport and other stuff you love.
1:16.5	And you just might fall in love with them and they could become your primary sport.
1:21.3	But I'll let Cassie tell you all about that.
1:24.0	Along with being a barbell medicine coach, Cassie is also the lead You Can Row 2,
1:29.8	Master Rowing Instructor at Concept 2. We talked all about rowing a few weeks ago with Sarah
1:34.9	Furman. She also has certifications as a precision nutrition level 1 coach and a pregnancy
1:41.4	and postpartum athleticism coach. She is a power lifter herself with a 285
1:47.3	pound squat and a 358 pound deadlift. Those are her PRs. And you can find her training clients
1:54.1	online all over the world and in person at Iron Soul Gym in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is also the coast of the podcast, More Female Strength.
2:04.0	I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
2:07.3	All right, before we get to it,
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