Barbell Shrugged - The One Ton Challenge - Defining the Lifelong Pursuit of Strength with Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash — Barbell Shrugged #391

Episode Date: May 6, 2019

Enter The One Ton Challenge - www.theonetonchallenge.com Travis Mash has been strength training for over 21 years and has been working with athletes on their strength, speed, and athletic performance for over 15 years. Travis has worked with athletes and non-athletes of all levels from NFL and Olympic hopefuls, to 7-year-olds just starting out, to a 70-year-old senior seeking increased mobility. Travis is a published author for several strength and conditioning journals and continues to work with several colleges such as University of North Carolina, Wake Forest University, Appalachian State University, and Wofford University. Travis is a current world champion in powerlifting and has held the all-time pound-for-pound world record. He was also an Olympic hopeful in weightlifting and was recruited for the U.S. men’s bobsled team. Having been a world champion, Travis is able to share his champion mentality with his athletes and non-athletes alike.   In this episode of Barbell Shrugged we talk with Travis Mash about the One Ton Challenge. We dive into what the One Ton Challenge is, the history of the One Ton Challenge, why 2,000 pounds, the strategy of the One Ton Challenge, the coaching you’ll receive when you sign up, and the lifelong pursuit of strength,   Enjoy!   - Anders and Doug   Episode Breakdown   0-10:  The history on the One Ton Challenge, what the challenge is, and the lifelong pursuit of strength 11-20: Travis’ lifting history and how he started coaching at the professional level 21-30: Developing the One Ton Challenge program, why the guys are so passionate about this program, and becoming the perfect athlete 31-40: The strategy of the One Ton Challenge, the key to lifting your best total, and a breakdown of each eight-week cycle 41-50: The importance of technical proficiency, the work you need to put in to lift one ton, preparing for the olympics, and why the bench press might be as technical as the snatch (if you want to be really good at it) 51-60: Resources to help you reach a one-ton total, how to register for the program, why spots are limited, and the coaching you’ll receive during the One Ton Challenge    ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Show notes at: http://www.shruggedcollective.com/bbs-onetonchallengeone -----------------------------------------------------------------------   @whoop - whoop.com  “shrugged” for 20% off   @FitAid - lifeaidbevco.com/shrugged to save $20 on 48 cans or text "SHRUGGED" to 474747 to save $20 on 48 cans   ► Subscribe to Barbell Shrugged's Channel Here ► Subscribe to Shrugged Collective's Channel Here http://bit.ly/BarbellShruggedSubscribe 📲 🎧 Listen to the audio version on the Apple Podcast App or Stitcher for Android Here- http://bit.ly/BarbellShruggedApple http://bit.ly/BarbellShruggedStitcher Shrugged Collective is a network of fitness, health and performance shows that help people achieve their physical and mental health goals.  Usually in the gym, but outside as well. In 2012 they posted their first Barbell Shrugged podcast and have been putting out weekly free videos and podcasts ever since.   Find Shrugged Collective and their flagship show Barbell Shrugged here: SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES ► http://bit.ly/ShruggedCollectiveiTunes WEBSITE ► https://www.ShruggedCollective.com INSTAGRAM ► https://instagram.com/shruggedcollective FACEBOOK ► https://facebook.com/barbellshruggedpodcast TWITTER ► http://twitter.com/barbellshrugged

I want 1,000 athletes. I want 1,000 athletes that love lifting big weights, loud music, and a training environment that pushes you out of your comfort zone into that magical place. When the weights float, the bars bend, and when you look around, all you see are the people that you want to do battle with. This is what makes the weight room so special. The communal drive to leave that day bigger, stronger, and faster than when you walked in. Last week, 250 plus people entered their score on the OneTonChallenge.com leaderboard. With little notice of the One Ton Challenge, multiple videos have started hitting the socials of people breaking into the One Ton Club. This week, I want 1,000. I want to create a place for strength athletes to display their love for the gym, lifting weights, and their lifelong pursuit of strength. This isn't just an online competition.

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on everything you need to know about the One Ton Challenge and why we just created the greatest weightlifting event to ever hit strength. Enjoy the show. Welcome to Barbell Shrugged. I'm Anders Varner, Doug Larson, joined by Travis Mash. What up? We are at Mash Elite today. I just snatched 232. 105 kilos. That's a huge day for this old man. I can't wait to put that on the internet later. I was happy to see you move so well.

Yeah, but more importantly, we are out here for a specific reason because Travis Mash has joined forces with Barbell Shrugged, and we have been in the think tank here doug and i and um in the in the new barbell shrugged shrug collective 2.0 here our our mission to guide you through your lifelong pursuit of strength it's beautiful and we are to our core, gym people. We love lifting weights. It's where our home is. It's what we like to do.

It's the people we like to be around. And in our ability to create a business around that mission statement, we want to create products and we want to create programs that guide you to the lifelong pursuit of strength because we believe that it's the most important thing that you can possess as a human is this the the characteristics the commitment uh the character and um the pieces that go into a life under the bar we learn so much in the gym and and our goal is yes we want you to learn how to lift weights through the show but also develop these characteristics that really play into living a good life. And the one ton challenge is very near and dear to my heart.

And this all came about five or 2015. But four years before that, I met John Cena. In 2015, we boarded a private jet, flew all the way over to Tampa, Florida, and went on the most epic transformational weightlifting experience of my life. He told me about a week before that we were doing the one ton challenge. I was like, what the hell is that? And what it is, is six lifts, you get a snatch, a clean, a jerk, a squat, a deadlift and a bench press. We add all those up. And that equals your one ton total. The goal is to get to one ton, 2,000 pounds, 1,200 for females. And what we are looking for is to create a number and to create a program, to create a challenge that shows you what it's like to chase the lifelong pursuit of strength.

And that is our mission here at Shrugged. That is why we have these programs or this specific program, this specific challenge. And what we're going to do over the next eight episodes of the One Ton Challenge series is lay out exactly what this program is, why we brought Travis Mash in to write this program for us, and how important we feel that these six lifts are to understanding strength, developing the character, the commitment, the confidence,

all of the pieces that go into living a great life that we express and learn through lifting weights. And what we're going to do here in episode one is we're going to talk about the fun stuff. We're going to get into the program and just how freaking excited I am. I've been building this in my brain since 2015 of how we can unleash this program to the world and get as many people doing the one-ton challenge as possible. And here we are. I am incredibly grateful foroug for travis for being a part of this with us and holy crap is this exciting for me um to have this thing that's been brewing in my brain

come to life and and be around such talented people and to to get you guys involved in something that really means a lot to me and was is of been like one of the most, as I said earlier, transformational weightlifting experiences and really been kind of the gold medal of my life of getting my name stenciled on John Cena's garage door at Hard Knock South. But, yeah. Doug. Dude, if you have listened to the show before then you no doubt know me and anders and a little bit about our backgrounds and whatnot and travis actually co-hosts with

us every once in a while so you may have heard travis's voice before but if you're not familiar with travis i mean travis is like the gangster of gangsters in the world of strength and conditioning like especially for the one ton challenge essentially a combination of powerlifting and weightlifting and and travis you were you at one time or another were world class at at both of those of those sports you know to give give us some of your background in in the world of strength that way people have context and who you are all right just a long story short because i'm so old it's a long story i mean i started lifting weights at 11 i'm now 46 35 years into it, played college football. You know, I think weight training was a big part of my childhood. You know, it wasn't so easy growing up.

You know, I grew up in the mountains, so, you know, not super rich up there. Yeah. So, you know, there's not a lot of money in the mountains. I grew up a single mom, and, you know, weightlifting was kind of an escape. You know, I think it is for a lot of us. I think it's one place that's steady in our mountains. I grew up with a single mom and weightlifting was kind of an escape. I think it is for a lot of us. I think it's one place that's steady in our lives. I know that 70 kilos today is 70 kilos tomorrow.

When you move 20 some times if you're growing up, it's like the one stable place in your life. It was a lot more to me than just lifting weights and getting a pump. It was kind of an escape. It's like my therapy. Anyway, I played college football at Appalachian State University, and my strength coach, Mike Kent, who was one of a big mentor to me, probably my first person who said, you know, you're kind of special.

You're stronger than the kids on the football team, but you're short and you're white. You're not going to the NFL. So maybe try this weightlifting thing. So then I moved to Colorado Springs and my coach, Wes Barnett, two-time Olympian, great dude. He's a great

coach, by the way. He was my first weightlifting coach. In about a year and a half, actually, he was invited to the Olympic Training Center. So I was on a fast track in weightlifting. Dragomir, he's a bronze medalist. Three-time Olympian and a bronze medalist. He was my second coach.

It's also where I met Charles Pulligan. You guys probably know, rest in peace. So it was a great place for me to not only get strong and be the athlete, but I started learning a lot then. But then around 2000, my dad got sick. He got terminal cancer. And so I had to decide do I continue trying to work towards Olympic weightlifting and making the Olympics, or do I go home?

So I opted to go home. I don't regret that. It's one of those decisions that was a no-brainer. It was like my dad was a great father, but he didn't talk very much. He's like a typical mountain man. But the last month of his life was like the one time where we actually communicated anyway when i moved home there was not like you know how now there's a gym on every corner where you can do bumper plates you can do the one-time challenge and back then there just

wasn't and i still needed coaching i was only like maybe two years deep into the sport i needed a coach i wasn't ready to do it you know on my own and there wasn't all this online anything i didn't know the internet hardly back then and so um but you could power lift there anyone can squat bench and deadlift so i started power lifting and uh in 2001 i went to i made it to my first pro power lifting this when the wpo was out which uh was it's probably the best era ever in power lifting so i went there to orlando and right away I tied Chuck Vogelpool, Louie Simeon's stud lifter he always talks about. Tied him in my first pro event.

It was the first time I got to go head-to-head. But he beat me on body weight, so I didn't win. But then by 2004, I broke the all-time world record in powerlifting. It was like a 15-year standing record. It's Ed Cohn's. The man, he's still my idol, and I love him. We're still good buddies. What were the details on your body weight and those lifts? It was in the 100-kilo class, 220-pound weight class,

and I totaled 2410 the first time I broke it. This is like a 950. It's in kilograms, so I'm going to try to. It's a 950 squat. It was 696 bench and like a 760 high sevens and deadlift, total 2410. And then a few months later. Three lifts, one ton. Yeah.

That's right. And then I did 2414 a few months later and broke it again also at 220 and that was 970 squat 705 um 705 bench and then seven something deadlift and then uh but then after that you know i started to do more coaching i was always coached even when i was at the otc i was coaching athletes and so um and getting to be around louis simmons so my whole life has led me to, you know, yeah, school was great. I learned a lot at Appalachian. But it's the experiences and the people I met that's really made me the coach I am. You know, I started transitioning more into coaching.

And in 2009, really, I started Master League Performance. And we started mainly athletes. And we got a lot of D1 athletes. I've coached well over 100 division one athletes now um gosh tommy bohannon started fullback for the jaguars but then uh muscle driver moved to town and it was like i felt like i had a second chance to go back into the sport of weightlifting not myself but i was like it would be awesome to be a part of that so one day i literally just drove down and uh glim pinlay i don't know

if you guys know yeah i walked in big old beard i was like he's a big dude hey glenn i'm travis she's like yeah i know who you are and so i was like can i just watch practice and um you know john north was there and immediately we hit it off and um he's he's john was like hey i do this podcast i didn't even know what i honestly did not know what a podcast was really. He's like, yeah, it's this thing. It's kind of like a radio show. He's like, would you want to be on it? I'm like, yeah.

He's like, I'll give you a call sometime. You can be on my podcast. And so this was the year before I met Mike. And so one day I'm at work, and he calls me. He's like, hey, do you really want to be on my podcast? I'm like, yeah, man, absolutely. He's like, hey, do you really want to be on my podcast? I'm like, yeah, man, absolutely. He's like, well, can you be here in an hour? Which is his show.

I'm like, you know, it was the most surreal moment. I'm like, yeah. I literally dropped everything I was doing, got in my car, and drove there. I don't even know why, what drew me to it that strongly. So I drove there. He and I became friends. I started coaching John North. He quit Muscle he wanted he didn't like the whole thing i started coaching him started coaching rebecca gordon started building my own weightlifting team then muscle driver hired

me started working a muscle driver and next thing you know i went from coaching all these athletes to i'm all in coaching weightlifting and here i am and now we have you know we since 2014 we have put 25 people on team usa in both youth junior and senior levels more than anybody else in america and out of my this little you guys are here this little town in north carolina people are moving here from all across the country oklahoma to be in this gym yeah and it's like it's it's amazing what we've done in this little bitty. And we had to catch you because last week you were at Pan Ams. You're home for a week.

Then we're all going to Jamaica so you can coach world-class track athletes. I go to Columbia next week. Yeah, Columbia, then Jamaica. Then Jamaica. So we've got one week to come here and film all the wanton challenge. Dude, it's crazy. Crazy how far the barbell can take you. You know, when I was young, my mom was like, you know, get a real job.

Come on. Do something real. Once you're going to be a doctor, be a lawyer. I'm like, no, I'm going to try this whole crazy idea of following my passions. And I just stuck to my guns. I'm like, I'm going to do what I love. And I'm like, I risked it. Going to Colorado Springs, boys, I only had $200.

I drove 23 hours straight with $200 to my name to Colorado Springs. My mom was like, I'll see you in a month. Several years later, she's like, my bad. I think that's why the One Ton Challenge is so important to me and why I'm so passionate about getting this program out and people going through this experience too is because it literally is the crescendo of 23 years of weightlifting for me not that i'm ever going to stop weightlifting but

man i was never that strong in like the the world class sense never inside that top half percent i was never i thought i would go to the crossfit games at some point but once i met those people i realized genetically there's it's just not happening. Yet I love training. I like being in the gym. It was the only thing that I wanted to do was work out and be in the gym. I owned a gym. I was around gym people all the time.

The culture of gyms is the thing that gets me the most fired up. But what does it all mean? Where does it all go? If you can't be in that top half, quarter percent, the best in the world that are on the biggest stages, what are we doing here? Why are we lifting weights? Is it just for fun?

And the answer is, yeah, it is just for fun, but also the people that are doing it, the people that are living the life and are really in the gym pushing it and trying to figure out and find purpose and put meaning behind what they're doing in the barbell, this event is precisely for you. It's for people that love training and love being strong,

but you may not be your 2763 or 2736 on the one-ton challenge, but it may not be for the top quarter percent of the people. We want people that are genuinely interested in strength that 2,000 pounds means something the fact that you can get to a a place a number that is in my mind very very strong and you can put your pen on that and say 2,000 pounds matters and you've achieved something in strength even though it may not be on the world stage, you put your work in.

You put the reps in. You put the sets in. You put your time in. You ate well. You did all the right things because everybody can do it. I'm 2,009 pounds as a total. And literally as I'm going through this process and I'm accumulating good lifts when I

when I started calculating my numbers going through the one ton challenge I realized I need to be inside 97% of every single lifetime best I've ever had I've never done all the lifetime best in a row so you start thinking like oh my gosh like best snatch is 245 and I'm gonna have to pick off 232 235 to get in that number all of a sudden that's a big big5, and I'm going to have to pick off 232, 235 to get in that number. All of a sudden, that's a big, big number to hit. I'm going to have to squat 97% of my best lifetime. That's right after massive squat cycles,

and now you expect me to come in when I'm not dialed in or trained to hit 419. That's a big number to hit for just show up, let's see what you got today. I'm impressed you did that well it's crazy like i that's why it was so transformational for me because it was this it was it was an experience where i was not training for it and somebody that i respect and somebody that was flying me across the country to go do this thing was specifically saying, here's the number, go hit it. And we did it. We did it.

And now my name's stenciled on his garage door. I'm never going to go to the CrossFit Games. I'm never going to stand on the world stage at Nationals or at Pan Ams. But I have a cool trophy that we get to hang out and show when it's on TV and all those things. And I think it's really important that people that live the gym life and are dedicated to strength, they live their life to be strong, yet there may be pieces of their game that they just won't ever get

to that international, national stage, whatever it is, that they have a place to go and perform. And there's, there's a way to say, Hey, I'm in this elite club. I'm in this group of people that have really dedicated their lives to, you know,

this, this committed to building the character and the confidence and just all the pieces that go into living this, this life of, of strength, weightlifting. And it's the perfect number. It's the perfect number because we can all get there. I'm just a regular guy.

You're 2009. Yeah, we both have the exact same number, funny enough. Like our lifts fluctuate. Like the squats and deadlifts and bench press, all those numbers individually aren't the same. But we both got the exact same number of 2009. We're just some pretty regular dudes. We train a lot because we love training, but I'm not built to be a world-class weightlifter at all. Maybe MMA and jiu-jitsu, I'm way more built to be good at those sports, naturally excel at those sports.

But strength training has always just been to be strong for these other sports. And any competing that I ever did, weightlifting or powerlifting, was not because I thought I was going to have this career as a lifter. It was just because I thought weightlifting or powerlifting was not because I thought I was going to have this career as a lifter. It was just because I thought weightlifting and powerlifting were just fucking cool. I just enjoyed doing them. Compared to fighting MMA, going to a weightlifting meet is like no pressure at all. It's just hanging out.

You have fun. But yeah, 2,009 pounds. I'm happy that I was able to, with my lifetime best, get past that 2,000 mark. And if I can do it then any normal athletic you know like 511 200 pound ish guy can can definitely do it with with a little bit of training so we're kind of we're kind of targeting people that are in that like 1600 to 1900 range which i think is the majority of people that have done things like crossfit for you know

a year two years three years they probably hit those numbers no problem and with another like solid year of dedicated training, I think most people could get over that 2,000-pound mark, especially with getting programming from Travis specifically. Travis is a masterful programmer. You understand both sports incredibly well. You make damn strong people. You have some of the strongest athletes in the country.

And when Anders presented the idea for doing this program, you were the natural first person that we both thought up to facetime you from the car you were like let's call him right now yeah yeah what if mash would be in and we just facetime you right away four seconds later he was like oh yes definitely we should definitely do that sounds awesome we're thinking about doing your favorite thing would you like to be a part of your favorite thing yes it's called the one Ton Challenge. Yes. So when we presented the idea to you,

certainly you've written so many programs in the past. It's probably not this really unique thing to you in a lot of ways, but in some ways it probably is. What were you thinking when we presented the idea for the One Ton Challenge to you as far as like, oh, I got all these great ideas for programming? You sounded so excited on the phone. You're like, oh, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. What goes through your mind when you write programs? It's so like um i would like to think it's like the beautiful mind it's like

so many numbers and so many like scenarios are floating through my mind and you think about things you can control what you can't control you know like when it comes to getting strong there's certain things that are not in our control like we cannot control our anthropometrics like the way our body lays out there's nothing you can do about it. There's nothing I can do about where my patellar tendon attaches. That's what I'm born with. There you go. Muscle fibers, Andy Galvin is the master of that.

There's nothing I can do about it. I have X amount of fast twitch, X amount of slow twitch. Ain't nothing happening there, right? But I can affect a few things. I can affect hypertrophy. If I i train hard i can gain some muscle you know i know i can make the movements better i can become more efficient at the moment both below 85 and both above 85 and so it's how you put those things together you know i can uh stabilize in certain areas to like snatching is so important you know like a lot of people you know i can uh stabilize in certain areas to like snatching is so important

you know like a lot of people you know like with overhead squats like some people say yes some people say no but if i stabilize you in the bottom of overhead squat you know it makes things so much easier there's just so many little things like i can make sure you don't accommodate meaning you don't get you know you hit the plateaus there's so many things you can do to avoid accommodation you know i can use the conjugate method which means I just change a little bit. Obviously, if you do the same thing over a long period of time, your body adapts and you don't change. This program is – you all have – I keep sending you the programs,

and we talk about who our target market is, and you know your clients, and things change. It's been fun developing this program. It's just enough to keep you know you don't want too much because we all have busy lives and you're talking about six hard lifts yeah so putting it all together it's like a puzzle like super total is way more fun to me one time challenge it's way more fun to me than you know doing like just weight lifting or just power lifting and i love don't get me wrong, I love both sports, obviously. I've been team USA coach four times.

But putting together the perfect one time, that's different. That is, man, it's like, I wish, I told you, remember the other day, I was like, man, it should be in the Olympics. I mean, I love weightlifting, dude. I'm not a purist. I'm not the typical weightlifting coach. All the weightlifting coaches are purists. So when I go to these things, I don't always fit in perfectly.

But I think it would be so good because then you cannot hide behind. Because someone's fast and they're super mobile and athletic, they can still be weak and still do good in weightlifting. Powerlifting, you can be totally non-athletic and still be – there's some really non-athletic people that are like world champion powerlifters. Well, now you can't hide behind anything. Yeah. You better be athletic, fast, strong.

You got to be the whole thing. Yeah. Man, that just teaches you to be the perfect athlete in my book. Yeah, because I think there's a big piece of the Olympic list. I mean, it's the speed. You got to have the power, the athleticism. Timing. But, yeah, the timing. If if you don't if you haven't

put in the reps i mean i found olympic weightlifting when i was 23 i want to say and the first time i actually hit a clean that felt right it was like the lightest most amazing thing that ever i was like oh how do i redo that and it wasn't't probably for another three months that I did it right again. But the speed, the timing, athleticism, all those pieces go into, and it's why the one-ton challenge to me is the ultimate, in a way it's a game. How do you put it together so that you can put the whole package together, not just on the training plan side of it but the on what we're calling the

one ton weekend um and we're going to be having some live events the first one being at the crossfit games um partnering up with life aid um so if you're going to be at the crossfit games make sure you like hit us up we're going to have all kinds of details but um how do you my first time yeah and you're talking about doing it in 15 minutes i'm gonna i'm gonna do more than one time in 15 minutes guaranteed at the crossfit games it's a matter of how much more yeah so i actually i love this and i'd love to hear both you guys because the way i did it and the way we've all kind of gone about doing it and putting the one ton challenge together for ourselves but what's the strategy you take if you're gonna go and do 15 minutes like what's the lift order what's what are you thinking um as you go through all six my strategy is going to be like this i'm going to warm up obviously you got to warm up the snatch and the cleaning jerk you

know i'm not going to warm up the deadlift at all you know i'm going to do snatch clean jerk squat and bench and like i can warm up fast on squats and fast on bench focus will be snatch clean jerk and then when the clock starts i'm going to do one snatch one clean jerk one squat one bench one deadlift and so i'm going to do power snatch power clean jerk to save me to do a big squat a big bench a big deadlift so that's going to be my last time i was around when you were wanting to pull big deadlifts you went went out and pulled 700 pounds. Basically with no warm-up. Do you know what started that? Plus, I'd been drinking all day, too.

This young boy. Drinking on the farm and decided to deadlift 700. This young boy. I got called out, though. Moonshine showed up, and I just pulled 700 off the ground. This young boy was like, hey, why don't you come lift with this old man? I will do just that. That's funny.

This old man is going to spank your young butt. Oh, I love it. So you're going power snatch, clean and jerk first. Right. That's what I'm going to do. Interesting. And just so everybody knows, the clean and the jerk are separate. He's just doing it for time.

So he's hitting 2,000 pounds for time. Right. So he's putting them together that's interesting i went squat first because i felt like that was going to be the most taxing like most physically as brilliant needed task that i had to get through and i'm a relatively strong squatter so if i knew i could get somewhere into there, I would be able to just know that, like, the lifts that I was good at, I wanted to do well at. And the lifts that I just needed to, like, hit a number and survive, I was able to hit the number and survive because those would have killed me. Like, if I snatch 225 instead of 232, it doesn't work.

I don't hit it. I'm not there. And, you know, clean 308 instead of 315, you've got another problem. It's not there. I do wonder what people's strategies are going to be. You were saying squat first. If you squat first and then you go to do snatch and clean and jerk, they feel light.

You just got done squatting 400 pounds or whatever it was. That's like potentiation. You're using that to post-activation potentiation, which is something that we use when we do. There will be some waves in this program. And, like, what happens is your body remembers the last lift that it does. So, like, for example, if you squat 400 pounds and then you go snatch 200, well, the body is recruiting the fibers for a 400-pound lift.

You know, the Chinese do that a lot. They squat first. They'll do a front squat or a back squat. Then they'll snatch and clean and jerk, especially it's a brilliant plan yeah so i went i went squat and then snatched because it was the most technical and i didn't want to have i wanted to save dead lifts for the very very end because it was like well i'm a terrible bench presser so i just wanted to get as close as possible and then know that i didn't have to hit like a lifetime best bench press because that would have been just brutal at the end.

But I wanted to keep the deadlift towards the end because in your brain, if you really want it, you'll pick the shit up off the ground. And if you take it to the limit, you're going to be tired afterwards. Yeah, you're taxed. I feel like I would do deadlift last as well. I 100% agree. Deadlift is the one you can get the most weight out of with pure aggression.

The first time I deadlifted 800 pounds, I was out of meat, and the most I'd ever done in competition was 730 at that point. And I opened up with 700, and then I went 750. And I hit boom, boom. And the 750 was easier. I couldn't believe how easy it was. PR already. So then the question was, do I go 770 and total 2270,

or do I go 800 and total my first 2300 total? And obviously, it was a no-brainer. I had already won the meet. Yeah. I was like, you got to go 800. Get an 800 deadlift and total 2300. And I did it. So I have 70-pound PR for what was already an elite lifter. But only can you do that on – that would not happen on sport.

Yeah. Only on deadlift can you get so pissed that you do something that crazy. Yeah. Deadlift really is the one where you just stand over and you're like, well, this thing's coming up. I'm just going to scream and grunt. It's my favorite. That's why at the deadlifting meet, people's noses get all exploded,

bleeding eyeballs. It's the best. That's the best. It's the best. That's the best. It's the best. I was going to say, and the snatch is my second favorite, and here's why. I think the snatch is like, have you guys ever played baseball? Yeah, 100%. Have you ever hit a home run?

No. You have? Actually, when you said that earlier, you were talking about it felt so light when you hit it just perfect. That was the exact thing I was thinking. Me too. Like, when you hit a home run, you don't even feel the ball. It's like, poof.

It feels like you whooped it. Like, you didn't even hit it. And then the ball's gone over the fence. When you hit the perfect snatch, it feels like nothing's in your hand. You're just like, boom. Yeah. It's like the most beautiful feeling is, like, it's only the time in the weight room it's like ballet.

It's like, I like movement. Like, I actually follow, gosh, this is going to crush my masculinity. I'm going to open up to you guys. I follow Worldwide Ballet on Instagram because of movement. It's so beautiful. And the snatch is the one thing in the weight room that's just beautiful. Nothing better to see someone do the perfect snatch. When Hunter picks the bar up, it's in such a perfect place and it doesn't look like it's fast and then she's under it and you're like what happened there how did

that how did you get there we're talking we're talking about hunter elon which is one of one of travis's uh national caliber lifters world team members world team member yeah yeah so she's probably my favorite because she came here. When you help an athlete do their goal, it doesn't matter. Let me clarify, too. I'm not just talking about world team members. You guys met Courtney today. Remember her?

Yeah. Our goal is to make AO series with her. It has nothing to do with where they end up. It's just that you help this person reach whatever goal, so like the one time. Like to help them get there and you see that smile on their face, that's my crack. You know, like I'm addicted to seeing that look of like I did it.

Yeah. Well, that's part of why this program exists because as we hit 2009, I was sitting in the back of Cena's car and he just kind of looked at me and I was like, fuck, man, like I can't believe this whole thing happened like all i could it's ridiculous and probably five four three years later whatever it is like i'm i i think about that moment and being in the car and it's like it's more glorified than maybe what was actually happening in that and now we're launching this program and it's all based off this thing and it's this big story

of my life but I really believe that it was like I was just there and it was like he was like dude you have to go tell people about this like go let other people have as close to this experience as possible and that's you know that's when it kind of like hit it was like I just literally

got on the plane the next day and wrote a business plan let's do this he's my favorite wrestler because he he lifts like that you know who else uh bradley martin you know that guy the bodybuilder he was on the show he does like you know big boy when you can be that big and still move that's that's yeah yeah cena moves really well yeah when you watch him squat and do olympic stuff, he moves incredibly well, especially for being an enormous human being.

Bradley Martin, I think, moves pretty well for a bodybuilder. He's like, whoa. That's cool. So when you get into the strategy, do you think people should be starting with their best lifts first? Should we start with weaknesses so you can find out what you need with your best lifts towards the end of this? You just don't want to be too exhausted before you do snatch and clean and jerk.

Yeah. Otherwise, your efficiency will be off. Yeah, and you don't have to do the clean and jerk together. We just say that because we're so used to it. But the clean and jerk are separate lifts. Specifically for me, I cleaned 308 and jerked 300. So they can be different. It helps for them to be different if you have a weakness in one of them.

Like you have lifters with, we were talking about, I think it was Nathan, right? Nathan. That has a much larger jerk than he does clean. Yeah, he has a much larger clean than he does jerk. Gotcha. Backwards. So, yeah, he could do the clean and jerk. But people like, all right, Maddie Sasser, she used to be here.

She's in Chicago now, but she could jerk. She's jerked 140 kilos, 308, but she hasn't cleaned anywhere near that. So she would want to separate the two. Dude, I totally want to. I don't do much overhead stuff anymore after having a shoulder surgery a little while back. But basically, if I could clean it, I could jerk it easy. I never even cleaned 300 pounds, but I behind the neck jerked like 330 for a triple, and it was easy. Are they allowed to do that behind the neck?

No, no, no. Front rack. Just checking. Because if you knew that, I would like it. I can jerk a lot behind the neck. Yeah. By the way, for this year-long program, a lot of year-long programs, they have like one single goal in mind. But one thing I really like about the way that you set up this programming is that basically the, for the six movements,

there's like an eight week block for each one where we're like, you're emphasizing just squat. All the other lifts are still being maintained and you're still doing total body everything, but like you're really emphasizing the squat and then you max out the squat at the end of the eight weeks and then you go on to the next movement. That really makes it where it's not like you're having, you have to wait a whole year before you like max your lifts or before you get

to the end goal. It's like you have every eight weeks, You have to wait a whole year before you, like, max your lifts or before you get to the end goal. It's like you have every eight weeks, like, you have a new goal to PR just one single lift, which I feel like really as far as, like, the monotony of training over the course of a whole year really breaks that up because you have a new goal very frequently. Sure, and, like, you know, even when you say squat is first, you do your squat and you hit your PR, you still want to do enough to maintain that so we still got to spend some quality time 85 to 90 you just won't go 100 but you'll maintain it or and then there's a cool thing is that you know we're going to do some

where tempo is important and it's the speed of which you squat so you can like do a squat not crush you because you're focusing on deadlift yet the the speed is going to equate to, even at the end of the year, another PR. So there's a lot of ways to continue to progress where I won't crush you, where I can focus on the one lift that we're going to focus on in that mesocycle. Let's get into the program a little bit. We're starting this thing off with a squat cycle, eight-week squat right uh what does that look like as far as like four weeks build up um second four weeks and then what are we doing to maintain total body strength and not even maintain but get stronger and uh full body strength across all six lifts but being focused on the squat so you know

with the squat let's talk about that first the first mesocycle would be focused on the squat. So, you know, with the squat, let's talk about that first. The first mesocycle would be focused on hypertrophy, which is getting more muscle. Well, you know, making the muscle you have bigger, a larger muscle is going to lift more weight, especially when in the second mesocycle, we start to go heavy because now you've got the new muscle mass. Now we'll make it stronger. Also in the first and the second block, we're also going to be doing a lot with efficiency meaning like you get better at the movements there's only two things you can do you can get better at the movement or you can get your muscles bigger to get stronger that's all you could control so that we're going to use the controls to to get you know exactly stronger

we're going to use um undulating periodization meaning we're not going to just do like you know linear periodization is good however the studies have shown that undulating is a little bit better so you don't just do tens than eights than fives and threes and ones which ed cone did it worked fine a little bit better is to do maybe some tens some fives some ones so yeah you know a lot of girls too that they'll do they'll do linear periodization and they'll kill kill it. They'll hit 10 rep maxes, 5 rep maxes, 3 rep maxes, come to the 1RM, zero. And so because their bodies just haven't done enough of it. So getting efficient at heavy weight, too. Yeah.

So that's the big difference. That's inside 90%. Yeah. A lot of people make a big mistake there. You want to lift the weights, you've got to lift the heavy weights frequently. Studies, you know, 1974 is A.E. Prilipin. You know, he's the one who did all the research. He's not the one.

There are several of them. But he's the one who, you know, said that they determined that 90% and above is what it takes to get stronger. However, you know, you've got to be very, I guess, strategic in how you do it. If I go 90% every day in my life, you know, like the Bulgarians, without taking drugs, I'm going to get hurt. You're talking about for trained people. Like people that are untrained, they can lift light

and still gain some strength. But once you've been lifting weights for a while, then you really need to lift above 80% or above 90%. Because these people, like you said, year, two years in CrossFit, yeah, they're going to have to, yeah. Yeah, when you're brand new, you get newbie gains. You can lift five pounds and you get stronger. But, you know, now you're going to have to spend some quality time above,

at least above 85%. You know, in that first block, sure, 75%, you know, we're going to use that to get really good and dialed in at the movements. Then second block, yes, you're going to spend some quality time 85% above, for sure. Yeah, and when you're lifting at 85% or above, no matter how many reps you're trying to get or, you know, no matter if you can get the weight without putting in 100% above, for sure. Yeah, and when you're lifting at 85% or above, no matter how many reps you're trying to get or no matter if you can get the weight without putting in 100% effort,

you still should be trying to accelerate that bar as absolutely fast as possible every single time. Yeah, compensatory acceleration. I think that's one thing that's so great about watching your lifters in the back is whether it's 50% or 90%, they come at the bar. Yes. They're bringing it to the bar. I don't know if you guys, I don't know if you ever interviewed Fred Hatfield before he died.

I know him either. But he's the one who talked a lot about compensatory acceleration. So whether you're going 50% or whether you're going 100%, you should be trying to accelerate throughout the entire movement. Whether it does or doesn't, your body will still recruit the fibers necessary to accelerate therefore making you stronger so nice when we start to get into a little bit of the olympic lifts though let's go uh snatch clean jerk um how much kind of position work strength work what does that look like in a in a programming sense with the we'll just start with the snatch

the good thing is is that you know with the, even though it's going to be very similar, you know, that first block, we'll be looking at efficiency. We'll be looking at making sure that the movement is correct and that you're stabilized in those positions. And then the second block, yes, we're going to get heavy. But throughout that entire year, we're going to be doing position work. You know, we're going to be using the conjugate method, meaning like you're going to do some hangs from the hip, which is the power position, which is, you know, I showed you some pictures on my wall earlier. Yeah. How that's the one universal position that everyone agrees you have to hit.

So I will make sure that every one of our athletes understands the power position is the most important and they'll know where that is. And then when it comes time to really focus on snatch, they want to think about that. So important. Think about this. One of the reasons why, like, you know, it's so easy to coach kids, you know, is because you do, you know, and as they get older, it gets easier and easier. When you're young, you really focus on positions and movement.

And then as they get older, you can just lift heavy and not worry about it. Well, in a year's time, that's my goal is to make sure that they, you know, when they're not focusing on the snatch, they're going to perfect the movements of the snatch, the power position, position two, and then off the floor, what that looks like. And then when it comes time that we're going to get crazy in eight weeks, they can just go heavy. They don't have to think about form or technique, and it's so much more fun. I think one thing that is going to be very fun to watch is somebody that's going to walk

in like you and hit a 700-pound deadlift. That's a really good power lifter. And then we're going to have to get, I mean, if you go 700, 500, 600, and all of a sudden now you're looking at, you got 300 pounds or something like that to get to one ton and you're a power lifter, you still got to snatch 135. And you got to get your arms over your head and you got to get that bar not to fly out of your hands and then you got to clean you got to get those elbows around like it's it's really important to have those skills in order to get to one tongue

because no matter how strong you are you still need to have the technique to be able to get one nobody just snatching 135 if you've never snatched before, is not that easy. No. Might sound easy if you're a crossfitter because you do it 30 times fast, but a power lifter that's never really done that, the first time I watched A.J. Roberts try and snatch it when he weighed 320 pounds, woo, wasn't pretty. 135 looked heavy.

I watched him back squat 405 for like 15 right before it, but he couldn't snatch 135. I had Jason Coker in the gym who's one of Westside Barbell's studs and my buddy. Like we've known each other for 20 years probably. He actually, when I was in Colorado Springs, he worked for me at World Gym. I run the gym that I trained at. And so he came in, he visited one time, and I had him try a clean.

He tried to clean 165 pounds. It was like 75 kilos. And it flew. He almost got killed. It flew out of his hand, and he flew backwards and landed in a rack. The rack fell on him. So, yeah, a big power lifter might very well not get there because they can't do the movement. They don't know the technique, and they might not have the mobility to do the movement.

So they might very well be out of luck. And that leads into the clean. That's not an easy position to get into. I mean, how many times have you seen a power lifter? I don't know how often they're doing it, but they go and do a clean, and you've got to catch. Can't rack it. They can't get in the rack.

And if you can't get in the rack, good luck even trying to hold 185. Yes. That's not an easy thing to do to get that up and then try and stabilize that. You've got to have the positions. And then the jerk turns into a push press at best. You can't do a real jerk if you can't put it on your shoulders. Yeah. I mean, we're going to see some big people push pressing weight over their head.

It'll be really impressive, like 275 push press. That's still awesome. 300-pound push press. But it's so much easier to jerk it correctly. 135-pound clean. You know, like the good thing, too, about the program, like even the clean, because they'll be doing some front squats throughout the whole year, it makes that position, which you said it.

It's the rack position, man. If you have a beautiful rack position, you can sit down into a very low squat with a vertical torso. The clean is like butter. You can be really good at the clean if you can do that. So we'll have all those 40-what other weeks to make sure that that position is perfect. Then when it comes time to go ham in the clean,

that's not the problem. You're there. And the footwork with the jerk, too, I think that that's something that people really struggle with. There's a lot of people that can, like you were saying, push press a lot of weight. They're just big, strong humans. But once you start getting into the technique of that

and understanding the split positions or the split position split jerk, it's so technical. And if people aren't capable, they need to be on the training plan so that they can understand those positions and actually maximize their total. Most people are not going to get to 2,000 pounds unless you're technically proficient because it's such a reach that in order to get there, you're going to have to eke out every single. I mean, if we had missed our lifts by a pound and a half per lift, we don't make it. A pound and a half across six lifts is just – it's not that much. Snatch 230 or 232.

That's the difference. Yeah. I couldn't imagine trying to get that number with having poor technique. No. My technique is pretty on point for those lifts. Nothing's perfect. I could be better and all that, but, like, I was pretty dialed in when I did most of those lifts. If I wasn't, there's no

way I would have gotten even close. These guys are going to be able to do the exact same thing that Hunter did. You guys saw Hunter set a PR jerk just yesterday. She did 275. 125 kilos. You know how much work went in that probably about 40 weeks. It's probably the exact same thing that these

guys are going to do. And it was just footwork. It had nothing, boys, it had nothing to do with her ability to produce power. It had nothing to do with her overhead strength or stability. It literally was a footwork thing. She would kick her back foot out, and so there was no base underneath her. And then we worked and we worked. I wrote this long Instagram post when I posted it talking about this was a daggone community event.

I reached out to other coaches and I'm like, you know, can I get some help? And I actually, you know, even me learned a lot this year because we had this one issue with Hunter. And then it came to an awesome conclusion yesterday with a big PR jerk. Yeah. What were those numbers again? She got 140, is that what you said? No, she got 125 yesterday.

Oh, 125. Yeah, 275. But she? No, she got 125 yesterday. Oh, 125. Yeah, 275. But she's at a very low body weight. Like, I can't really give away the secret, but in a couple weeks, she's about to compete at the Senior Nationals, and we may or may not be at a certain weight class. It's Olympic years, man. We're a year out from the Olympics, so, you know, we're trying to.

Does she have a chance going to the Olympics? Yeah, absolutely. Cool. If things work out next week, absolutely she does. And, like, it would be a sleeper. It would be a story. It would be a movie. Because here she is.

She's only been in the sport two years. So she's going to ruin the lives of a lot of poor. There's a lot of girls. I didn't realize. I'm going to feel bad for them. You know, I'm going to have to give a lot of hugs because I'm going to feel bad for the women we're about to crush. You sound like you feel real bad about it. Let's get back into some of the power lifts, though.

I wish I had you around. I wish I had this training plan when I was going through the one-ton challenge because bench press. Dude, there is nothing more terrifying to me than having to bench press. I am just so bad. And I think it's because I always just did it because it was, like, written on the thing, but no one ever taught me how to bench. No one ever taught me, like, lats and bar placement. It just was always, like, the meathead lift.

But technically, it's really, really challenging to do it well. It's very technical. It's like I was just talking with one of my athletes, Sarah, yesterday about, you know, the snatch is the most technical, you know, lift in the Olympic lifts. Bench, by far, is the most technical lift in the power lifts. Really, I would argue with someone that it might be as technical as snatch if you want to be really good at it. The thing about, like, this is not me talking about myself.

This is just telling you a story. I was terrible at bench when I first started powerlifting. I would win in the squats, get whipped in bench, catch back up in the deadlift. And that was not going to be the way that I was going to break a world record or win the world championships. So I had to figure that lift out. So I think I am probably the best at coaching the bench press of any coach

in America because I had to work so hard to go from terrible to I broke a world record for five minutes. I held it. Yeah, somebody had to come right behind me and break it. Kenny Patterson. I'm like, I've still been in. You should have Tanya Harding them. If I'd known he was going to do it, I would have.

I'm salty. But there's so much to bench press. Like from the way you – the descent to the way you – yes, Tanya. I trained with – we did a video shoot with Halo Neuroscience and trained with the world record bench press holder. She's like 128. She benched 265 with me. And when she hit 265, Doug walked over to me and he saw my 265.

He said, ah, that looked like a real one rep max for you. And I was like, that was 100% a one rep max for me today. I mean, it's so amazing. Some of these girls,

they can get into such good positions. Yeah. You know, they can get that massive arch. They can maximize their grip. Yeah, emily was benching with you she has she's a crazy arch yeah i love it some people hate on that you know they're like like they do sumo deadlifts they're like ah sumo deadlifts is cheating well if it's cheating then you go do it

yeah you can do it too yeah we'll stop on you bro if i got in a sumo deadlift i would i've tried sumo and i'm 100 pounds off i'm i'm 100 pounds better conventional so you know if i got into sumo deadlift i would i've tried sumo and i'm 100 pounds off i'm i'm 100 pounds better conventional so you know yeah i love it when you do that i love technique yuri belkin who's the i think the gosh this is going to be a bold statement i think he's the best power of all time and i love ed cone more yeah so if you're listening bud i love you more but yuri belkin just blew us both away in my opinion yeah like he is just to see him lift you see that yuri focuses more on his craft than he does trying to look cool you know and i just i admire that yeah well that's why they're world record holders yes because their bodies contort

to the sport better than everyone else in the world and they've put in the work that's why they're in the top quarter percent or why we have the one-ton challenge because you can be a great deadlifter and have a great bench presser, but maybe you suck at the Olympic lifts. So we've got a balanced competition, a balanced event where you don't have to, you know, have the body type.

Your body type can lend itself to two or three lifts and then you can survive two or three lifts and still get into the one-ton club, which is really the big goal. and if you're you're curious how you compare to all the other people that are interested in the one ton challenge we put together a dope leaderboard yeah you know very similar to like how the crossfit open has a leaderboard you can see everyone scores for the whole world and you can see like i'm in 2000th place that's pretty good because there's a million people on this list same thing for the one ton challenge put together a

leaderboard that way you can see how you compare with either the total or how you compare with just the squad or just the bench press because you can sort by each movement. It's sorted by guys versus ladies. If you want to compare to just the other ladies,

we've segmented out men and women so you can have an honest comparison with everyone else your same gender. I think with the leaderboard, I think if you look at Westside Barbell, if you want to know, everyone's like, Westside Barbell, it's dynamic effort, max effort. Not really. It's that board.

It's like if you go and talk to the real, and you guys have been there, if you talk to those lifters, they will die to get on that board, on his record board. I mean, I know they will. They'll fight over that record board. And so it just does something to you. I think it's a great principle. I think it's a strength principle.

A leaderboard literally is what makes you PR. Yeah, a good program, eating, sleeping, all that stuff is important. But that leaderboard will make you claw and scratch your way to the top of it. We just put it up a couple days ago. Got a couple hundred people on there, and it's really the top of it. We just put it up a couple days ago. Got a couple hundred people on there and it's really cool to watch it. We're going to be building that out. Building in some color schemes to see who's in the

one-ton club, where that cutoff is, how many people we can actually get in there. It's been very cool to see people get in and see their scores, see where it's at. It's been beautiful too. There's four people in there that put zeros so you know that they're a little insecure about their numbers.

Or maybe they just don't want to guess the numbers. They want to go get the actual numbers. Whatever it is. Put the names on the list anyway. It's awesome. I saw it. I was like, that's so cool. They're peeking from the outside.

They want to see where it's at. Get their stuff in there. I'm with that. So yeah, the leaderboard's over at theonetonchallenge.com theonetonchallenge.com theonetonchallenge.com and on top of getting your scores in, you're going to be getting the One Ton Challenge Starter Kit

which we've got a sample week of programming for Meso number one the squat cycle that MASH has put together for us. On top of that, there's a little bit of nutrition stuff in there, just kind of living the life of the barbell athlete and exactly what you can expect from the leaderboard,

why we put this together, a little bit of the history of the event that we did at Cenas at Hard Knocks. And there's just tons of resources of how to get you stronger, and then we're going to be launching the program here at the end of this season. What are the dates? You tell me. Oh, man, off the top of my head. I don't have them right in front of me.

We are going to open registration, I believe, off the top of my head, it's May 27th through June 6th or something like that. It's basically the end of May. I need to Google that. Well, we're going to look it up. We're going to have it right in front of me right now. Make sure you get over to the one-tonchallenge.com and get on the leaderboard.

Get your numbers up there because the real goal of this thing, find out where you're at today. Get into the one-ton training plan. Coach Mash, he's been here building this program out, and on top of that, he's got a 2736, which right now is the biggest one ton total on the leaderboard and i think you signed up we're gonna make it happen all right here i just looked up those dates are right yeah february sorry may 27th is a monday if you're on the vip

list if you put your name on the leaderboard or you got the starter kit then you're on the vip list and and everyone in this program will get coached, so we can only take so many athletes because we only have so many coaching slots available. So if you're on the VIP list, by putting your name on the leaderboard, you'll get early access on May 27th. We'll announce it to the rest of our audience on Tuesday, May 28th, and then you'll have basically a week to sign up-ish, and Thursday, June 6th, will be the last day that

registration is available if we aren't sold out by then, which we very well may be. So sign up for it as soon as possible, end of May. So not only is Coach Mass going to be in there, but we're going to have

additional coaches. So everyone that signs up for the program is going to have a coach for video analysis, Facebook group, feedback, cool little community of all the strong kids. We wanted to find all the strong people in the world and get them into one place.

So the One Ton Challenge is our widget to get us there. I can't wait to roll this out. And, man, this is going to be the future of Shrugged. We're going to talk about the One Ton Challenge. We're going to get people strong. And we're going to find all the strong people and put them in the one-ton club there we go and a big public thank you to you travis for going on this ride with us like we're super fucking excited about this and double double excited because because you're in here with us

because i feel like having you riding this program just you're the perfect person for it and and how could someone not get strong if one of the best weightlifting coaches in america is right you're gonna get strong unless you get killed or something. You're going to get strong. If you survive, you'll be very strong. You're not going to die in the program. As long as you don't walk in front of a car and get killed. What happened to Anders? He snatched too much weight.

Never woke up. His arms flew off and he bled out. That's great. So get over to the one-tonchcom get into the leaderboard we will have all kinds of information you're going to be getting a free download the one ton challenge starter kit and

we'll have the open cart to get into the program coming to you soon so stay tuned and we'll see you guys next week for week two of the one ton challenge season we're talking about squats. Let's do it. Right on. Thanks, dude.

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