Barbell Strategy Podcast

Coaches Luke and Sam bring decades of combined experience, including coaching athletes at the CrossFit Games level. They've tested a wide range of training methods, both with their athletes and in their own competitive journeys. Now, they're sharing those insights on the Barbell Strategy podcast to help you level up your coaching and training in the sport of CrossFit.

Barbell Strategy Podcast is a health podcast hosted by Luke Holmes, with 10 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Luke Holmes hosts Barbell Strategy Podcast, a health show with 10 episodes published.

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  #10 - Strength Standards in CrossFit

  May 6, 202651 minS0

  <p>"CrossFit is a strength sport until you're strong enough — and then it becomes an endurance sport."</p> <p>Trying to classify CrossFit as strength or endurance biased is a debate that keeps coming up in coaching and programming circles. The answer will always depend on who you ask and what their background is.</p> <p>What is certain is that you need to reach a baseline level of strength to compete effectively at any level. Most competitions structure their divisions around the weights used in metcons and the complexity of skills required. As athletes move toward more advanced competitions, th...

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  #9 - Strength Endurance for CrossFit and How to Develop It

  Apr 14, 202648 minS0

  <p>Maximal strength is an important part of CrossFit, it is very obvious in the beginner phases of the sport when you are not strong enough to do some of the things you see in class, at competitions, or what athletes are doing at the Games.</p> <p>However, once you have reached a certain level of strength, the challenge then becomes expressing that strength under more greater fatigue or within an endurance style test. Strength endurance is a large part of the sport and is often how heavy, strength based efforts are tested.</p> <p>In this week's podcast...

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  #8 - Strength Development in CrossFit: Beginners, Intermediates and Advanced

  Mar 24, 202652 minS0

  <p>Everyone comes into CrossFit with different training experience, but what should it look like when someone is strength training as a beginner, progressing through to intermediate and advanced levels?</p> <p>In this episode we discuss the different phases, along with the appropriate training methods and styles of programming to use at each stage.</p> <p>Having a clear path and approach will help you navigate someone's strength development over the long term, ensuring they are not making quick gains that plateau early.</p> <p>This is more than just building the correct foundation. It is about understanding what...

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  #7 - Running Strength Cycles Alongside CrossFit (Season 2)

  Mar 10, 202652 minS0

  <p>Season two of the Barbell Strategy Podcast is all about strength training. Over the next four episodes we will do a deep dive into all things strength for CrossFit.</p> <p>We'll be covering things like: how strong you need to be for CrossFit, how to develop strength endurance for CrossFit as well as plenty of practical training and programming takeaways.</p> <p>In this first episode of this season we keep it a bit more relaxed and share our experiences with strength training before, during and after training in CrossFit, how we've seen strength training develop over the...

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  #6 - How to Plan, Qualify, Prepare and Compete in CrossFit Competitions

  Sep 25, 202548 minS0

  <p>Competing in CrossFit is very challenging. It is something that causes your average everyday athlete to knuckle down and start approaching their training, nutrition and lifestyle in a way similar to a professional athlete. But what kind of preparation goes into this and how do you select the right competitions at the right time?</p> <p>As a beginner it pays to compete often and develop a hunger and love for the sport, but then it can be wise to reduce the frequency of competition in order to put in the time to develop your fitness and skills as...

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