4.8 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2020
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Despite the potato-famine controversy in our last episode with him, Dr. Conor Heffernan the strength historian is back dropping more gems from the past on iron culture. This time we address the ever-repeating cycle of the “machines vs free weights” argument from a historical perspective. From Sandow to Arthur Jones to the modern “functional fitness” era, this episode has it all!
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0:00.0 | Eric, if we were to come up with the most perfect piece of equipment, what would it be? |
0:08.7 | All right, so it'll need to have a squat involved, but it's got to train the core. It also |
0:15.5 | needs to get done in maybe 15 minutes a week. So I'm thinking something like you lie on your face in a plank position while squatting |
0:27.7 | under vibration. |
0:31.1 | So I'm going to call it the, yep, okay. |
0:34.7 | I almost had it. |
0:37.0 | I'm sorry. |
0:37.6 | I'm sorry. I'm sorry. |
0:38.5 | I should have clarified when I said the best piece of equipment I meant to slay the dragon |
0:43.9 | and save the princess or prince. |
0:45.7 | We're going larping after this. |
0:47.6 | I wasn't talking about lifting. |
0:48.8 | That's like, that's, I larp as a lifter. |
0:51.5 | Now we're going into the dungeons to, you know, slay that dare dragon. |
0:56.9 | As I've told you many times, and it's getting to the point where I think you're purposely trying to antagonize me. |
1:01.5 | I'm a tabletop role player. |
1:03.0 | I don't LARP. |
1:04.6 | And you pretty much just threw away a million-dollar franchise that we could have had with the vibrating lie-down squat |
1:11.4 | plank to talk about the lowest cast of role-playing games. But you know what? Why don't you do |
1:17.9 | this into on your own? What's next? You take it from here if that's the way you're going to be. |
1:21.8 | So I think we have a very special returning guest two times, but I think it won't be the last time or even |
1:27.9 | the last last time, the time before the last time. We have Connor Heffernan returning. And we're |
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