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Athlete: Chris Duffin

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045: Chris Duffin: The Secret To Making Massive Gains Without Pain

In this episode of the Super Strength Show, the Mad Scientist of Powerlifting, Chris Duffin, takes us on his journey to making massive gains without pain!

More Specifically in this Episode

• Vision, consistency, and hard work.
• Outworking every person around you, every single day.
• The benefits of stepping into the unknown.
• Defining your limits and testing your real strength!
• Be strong physically, mentally and emotionally.
• Apply the strength that you have in the most efficient manner possible.
• One of the most effective ways to rehab an injury.
• Take care of all the little things, and the big things will happen.
• Live, learn, and share!

As long as you’re pushing hard and making gains, you’re moving forward.
The one tool that every serious strength athlete should have!
Be passionate about what you do in life and stick to it!
Live life…Don’t let life live you.
About Chris Duffin

Chris Duffin is known as an elite lifter with the heaviest 4x bodyweight raw w/wraps squat in the history of powerlifting, with 881 lbs. at a bodyweight of 220 lbs. He has also deadlifted over 900 lbs. and broken the Guinness world record for most sumo deadlifted in 1 minute.

Besides these feats of strength, Chris is also a renowned coach and a go to for elite athletes in correcting movement problems. His approach to spinal stabilization and relation to barbell training is part of the curriculum for a PHD course on managing disc issues.

In addition to his success as an athlete and a coach, Chris has an inspiring life story. He went from growing up homeless in the mountains of California and Oregon to working his way up to a corporate executive while raising his younger siblings. Today Chris successfully balances his time between family, training, and his two careers.

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WATCH: The Meathead Mobility Series

Recently I published a well-received article, Using Your Body’s Mobility and Stability Mechanisms to Drive Performance. This article provided some excellent analogies to articulate the principals at play to drive the improved power transfer and increased distal mobility through focus on proximal stability. In the following four-part video series, I dive deeper into some specific approaches to accomplish this in practice and beyond just an academic discussion.

The first video in the series is another introductory discussion video. It is the beginning of a lecture I recently did for some DC students and Rehab2Performance members at UWS. Due to the audience, I mostly speak to the topic of ‘treating’ the peripheral or the outputs of poor movement or inadequate proximal stability. In my seminar series and certifications I spend a great deal of time on the difference between ‘coaching’ the peripheral versus how to coach the operating mechanics of quality movement patterns.

In the next two videos I discuss techniques for improving, coaching, and cueing proximal stability. We have found that this focused attention has reduced both injuries in our athletes as well as improved performance. Even athletes that do this well naturally have shown improvement with purposeful focused efforts.

In this last video, Matt Vincent and I discuss coaching and power transfer as it relates to this discussion.

Tuning the Human Body for Performance: A Conversation with Dr. Stuart McGill

In this two part series, Chris Duffin sits down with Dr. Stuart McGill. Dr. McGill is the leading researcher on Biomechanics in the world. He is a professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON, Canada). His advice is often sought by governments, corporations, legal experts and elite athletes and teams from around the world. Difficult back cases are regularly referred to him for consultation.

In this rare interview, McGill and Chris share their passion for engineering and design outside of the human body and movement. They reach into discussions about vehicle suspension and chassis design and relate the same processes to ‘tuning’ of the human body for performance.

WATCH: Chris Duffin Interviews New 220 All-Time Record Holder Jeremy Hamilton

These conversations relate to not only powerlifting, but all athletes. They discuss where athletes often go wrong in their warmup routines and the impact to their performance. Following their easily incorporated suggestions for improved competition and training prep will increase your performance and reduce your risk of injury. They also delve into the subject of maximizing ‘neural drive’ and how to do so in athletic development.

WATCH: Chris Duffin Interviews All-Time Record Holder Sam Byrd

One of the greatest things about powerlifting is that it is a sport of passion. There are not careers made or money of any significance for winning big meets. The athletes are in the sport and stay in the sport for purely personal reasons. This is what makes the community so strong and why people identify themselves as powerlifters. Success in the sport also generally takes a long time and so this level of commitment beyond extrinsic rewards is a requirement. The downside of all this is that the sport requires the ability to balance competing priorities for time in life.

This is a struggle we all face. For those that have either highly competitive lifting careers, professional careers, or other competing demands, it becomes an even greater struggle.

Sam Byrd is one of the lifters that fall into this category. Sam has dominated multi-ply lifting in the past and is today a huge force in the raw powerlifting world. Sam recently set the raw with wraps squat record with an unfathomable 915 pounds at 220 pounds bodyweight this last year. While competing, Sam worked his way through law school and has since started his own successful law office.

Listen to Sam discuss the challenges of balancing these demands, what keeps him motivated as a lifter and competitor, and talk shop with Chris Duffin.