Barbell

What would it be? I'm looking at a squat movement.

Barbell, back squat, front squat, Smith machine? All of them.

You can only have one, Stan.

I'm limiting you.

I would probably hold dumbbells with those.

Yeah.

Barbell on the back is kind of an awkward setup.

Yeah.

You find bench press in a CrossFit gym, which is a cornerstone of most gyms, most mainstream fitness includes event stress.

Barbell, like traditional barbell.

Yeah,

yeah, yeah.

Isn't that great? Yeah, there's like an ability curve where you get better at shit and then you get worse at shit.

So barbell bent rows from a deficit.

bent rows from a

deficit.

And if you do e- the round back row, you'll get some contraction.

But if you do the chest high row and you pull your elbows back, you get a better contraction in your back." So for example, in your case, two of the exercises I've got in front of me here is- Barbell rows.

How would you say that you've found, just as an example with barbell rows, a way to get the best from this movement, say, compared to what you see in the gym with other people doing it?

Um, actually the cue that I use for all of my rowing is th- you're not trying to row the weight up, you're trying to pull the weight and pull your chest into the weight at the same time.

And then we offer a lot of like perinatal classes.

So prenatal yoga classes, We have a pre and postnatal strength class called Bumps, Babies, and Barbells that is just my love.

It's a bring your baby to class workout, which is amazing, and connect with other moms in that similar season.

And then I would say our class that really, really makes us stand out and that is kind of an accident that it even hit our schedule is called Pelvicore.

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We had this talk with C.C. Barbell, and she said that-

Yeah, I've mentioned to that, yeah

... that, that you, that a guy asking a woman, "Wow, you're doing this a certain way.

If they can give you 10s, 20s, 30s, you can always manipulate your variables.

But one of the probably things not to do is go cold turkey, and probably al- should always, I think, talk to your doctor first just to make sure if, especially if they're well-informed.

One of the great ones with, which we mentioned earlier on with CC Barbell, was the post-menopausal thing, and she had a really, really good endocrinologist that she was working with and they were having multiple conversations, and they were doing a lot of work together that ended up making her a lot healthier overall.

But only because they were having these conversations, and only because they were making sure to make the right observations and get the right blood tests and see what was going on in her body.

But the iron doesn't allow it.

This is the foundational truth in harsh reality.

So today I want to walk through the seven iron truths that the Barbells teach us about reality, discomfort, honesty, fundamentals, progress, identity, and most importantly, the present moment.

So these are not just gym lessons.

These are really life lessons.