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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!

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• 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!

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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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RT 164 | CHRIS DUFFIN – STRENGTH TRAINING IS PRACTICE FOR LIFE

Chris Duffin, world renowned powerlifter and coach, is this week’s featured guest on the podcast.

Chris is an elite level powerlifter, coach, inventor, owner of Elite Performance Center, and founder of KabukiStrength.com. His goal is to inspire and motivate men to chase their dreams despite adversity – to think bigger, dream bigger, and BE bigger and stronger than they’ve ever thought possible.

His most recent endeavor – Kabuki.ms – is an innovative new web tool for learning and coaching proper movement patterns.

I’m excited to talk with Chris today about his approach to training, coaching, and the movement principles that have become the foundation for his new online coaching tool, Kabuki.ms.

Here’s what you’ll hear about in this week’s amazing episode:

• Chris explains why he’s called “The Mad Scientist of Strength”
• Getting technical with evidence based training
• Chris discusses where his movement and rehab principles come from
• Understanding the body’s operating principles so you can find out what’s driving your injuries
• Incorporating autoregulation principles into your volume and intensity
• Why profiling the speed of your lifts is important
• Chris’s approach to training clients all around the world
• The importance of having a long term vision
• How to get clarity with your vision
• Prioritizing what is important to you and understanding who you want to be
• How Chris overcame adversity and become a pillar of strength
• You create who you are, not the sum of your experiences!
• Slow, long, incremental steps over time is where the opportunity lies
• Chris explains his shift from a corporate executive to full time athlete and coach
• The biggest mistakes people make with the squat and deadlift
• Coaching cues for optimal spine position
• Paying attention to the “The 6th Month Rule”
• How to strengthen, stabilize and remove shoulder pain with the ShouldeRök™
• The differences between the ShouldeRök™ and Indian Clubs
• Understand the WHY behind everything you do
• How to prioritize what’s important and remove the junk from your life
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Kabuki.ms
KabukiWarrior.com
ShouldeRök™
The Way of Men by Jack Donovan
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the disruptivecast ep. 69 – Chris Duffin, The Mad Scientist of Powerlifting

February 9, 2016

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173: Chris Duffin: Kabuki Warrior Principles For Better Movement and Performance

In this episode of the Super Strength Show, Chris Duffin takes us on his journey to becoming a Strength & Conditioning Coach, Powerlifter, Movement Specialist, and Founder of Kabuki Warrior. During this interview, Chris dives deep into his training principles for better movement patterns and performance.

More Specifically in this Episode You’ll Learn About

Chris explains his business and coaching
Know where to pull information from
Always move forward, not backwards
The Kabuki Movement Systems
Why your nervous system detunes you body when you don’t have proper joint centration or core stability
Focus on what is driving pain
Push yourself as hard as you possibly can and to do it absolutely right
Find the balance of extremes
Your lack of mobility is the output of you doing something wrong
Joint Centration
Developmental Kinesiology
Heavy Load Movement Vs. Remedial Type Pattern
There is no weakness in strength
About Chris Duffin

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Chris Duffin is an Ex Corporate Executive turned Inventor and Movement professional. He has positioned himself uniquely in the fitness world bridging the gap between (and working with both) the top clinical rehab and sports professionals in the world and the in the trenches athletes and Strength & Conditioning coaches. He promotes and uses evidence-based approaches in developing his coaching and cueing methodologies and strength training equipment.

Chris keeps it simple with reinforcing clean natural movement patterns and then focusing on building strength. He is the only person in the world today squatting and deadlifting over 900 lbs at his bodyweight, he is one of the best Powerlifters of our age, and one of the most respected powerlifting coaching strength coaches. He is the only powerlifting strength coach that is regularly asked to present at PHD level courses on human movement.

You can connect with him by visiting KabukiWarrior.com or Kabuki.ms.

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“The things that don’t add value; there’s no time for that.” – Chris Duffin
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“Screw Moderation!” – Chris Duffin
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Training Resources
Kabuki.ms
KabukiStrength.net
Duffalo Bar – The Ultimate Training Bar
ShouldeRök™ – for increased shoulder strength, core stability, to rational strength, proper spinal position and increased shoulder mobility and function.

Velocity Based Training Methods – Virtual coaching with Chris Duffin

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