Randy Lloyd showed me what it was like to be a brother. As a veteran, Randy struggled with PTSD, depression, and substance abuse. He fell back in love with fitness, found his barbell family, and turned his life around. Randy found out the same comaradery that bonds soldiers together on the battlefield can be found […]
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Our bodies are amazing. The more we progress in terms of science, the more we realize the complex connections between neurology, muscles, and performance. And our podcast guest today, Evan Lewis, is on the cutting edge of these developments – using his knowledge to help rehabilitate athletes in pain and to help athletes perform at
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You may not know Ian Smith but you may have heard his story. He was ordered by the governor to close the doors of his gym during this time of pandemic. But Smith refused. That rocketed him into the center of a controversy that quickly became national. It’s a fascinating story, but it’s also a
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This week in my EXS 505 Sports Nutrition class, we were assigned two articles which discussed the ins and outs of the ketogenic diet. Some of the findings could be of interest to a few of my readers, so I thought I would give you a peak at the findings. To be fair, I must
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Anders Varner is about to do something HUGE. Barbell Shrugged will soon be selling exercise programs in WALMART! It’s a passion project that Anders, Doug Larson, and I have been working on for months now. And I’m so excited because I think this could really help bring a new level of fitness and health to
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First, let me say that I am enjoying Human Movement and Biomechanics class that I am taking this semester at Lenoir-Rhyne University with Dr. Keith Leiting. After taking a brief look at compression, tension, shear, and torsion forces and their effects on the body, we dove straight into assessment. Our first look at assessment was
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