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Chris Duffin

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“And then using the main power drivers, so in this instance, both instances, it's the hip complex, to generate that power and transfer it from how we're rooted and connected to the floor through the distal end, you know, which would be the barbell on the shoulder. There's a couple key concepts. So one is that what we just talked through is how to actually maintain that stability. So if you have either the diaphragm, which is connected at the rib cage, so out of alignment in any position, it needs to be in alignment with the pelvis. So those two in opposition. So this is simple engineering here. Because what we're going to do is eccentrically load this. We're going to use the diaphragm just like you would in a diaphragm pump where it's going to press down on all the tissue in there. So we're not using breath. So our breath was actually a lot of times a default pattern when people do that because they'll”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The level of intent and the opportunity for error are at a different level. So just the minutest changes of position by quarter inch, half inch can be make or break. At that level. So these things, everything gets amplified. So the ability to start with having the pelvis just in the right orientation to the diaphragm before we start initiating what we call the eccentric loading of the abdominal cavity to create this intra-abdominal pressure of working against this outward expansion, working against the outer sheath of abdominal thoracolumbar musculature, obliques, causing the co-contraction at the pelvic floor, all this stuff and how you cue that, because you can't think about all this stuff. You need to break it down into still and practice to like it's one simple queue that we now lock down and control this torso stability because this is what these fundamental movements are about is being able to control our spinal mechanics and then now be able to maintain that while articulating the joints around that through a range of motion.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It gets exponentially harder. It does. In the early 2000s, like I said, I started lifting 1988. But my first meet in the early 2000s, my max deadlift was 523 and my first squat was 550. So that's the heck of the heck.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then the third one was every last thing I could muster to just finish. I mean, and I just barely got it done because the strength is like there, but like that capacity to be able to manage all those resources for that amount of time. Because not just leg strength when we're talking about this stuff.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Working into a fatigue state. So you're building an amount of fatigue in your system. And then when you let off of it, that's when you get a compensation. And that's how you stair step training. This is periodization, but leading into a big event, you're accumulating this massive amount of fatigue. And so I was performing at a level that I could do it. And so I knew I was going to be able to unmeet because then you give yourself that window to be able to recover and supercompensate and be able to do a little bit more. So like that first rep when I did it, strength-wise, I went, I could do this for five reps. Like it went through my head. And I'm like, I mean, it was easy and it was fast. And it felt like amazing. And I'm like, I'm going to crush this. And then set rep two, the realization kicked in is like, oh, this is for reps with a thousand pounds on your back. And your fatiguing just like.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There was certainly doubts on that day from some training history. So there was some major breaks to my confidence in the couple months leading up where I had issues with passing out under the bar, so completely losing consciousness. And this was on weight less than a thousand pounds even. So that was like all this buildup in me going, what if... If it, I think I have this resolved, but what if I get up there and I can't even do a rep? How embarrassing will this be that I've been talking about this and planning for this for so long? Outside of that, I knew I could do it. In fact, I wanted to do even more, even up to the second rep. Training.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Day of is really easy. The lift itself Other than a few seconds is really easy and not challenging. People always ask me, what was it like? How beat up were you after that and the deadlift? And the simple fact is it was easy. The work to get there was horrendous.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Shut down. So it was kind of surreal for timing wise, right? And so if I hadn't done it, it would have never got done. Because I'd push to the limit. I couldn't come back and do it. It was at the total limitation of my capabilities. So I'm pretty proud of it. And the last piece was every one of these feats along the way. I collaborated with a charity that I believed in. And a lot of those tied to my life story, which we probably will get into. So it was threefold. So that inspiration piece, inspiration, motivation, walk in the walk and showing just these methodologies that a guy that had to learn to walk again can do something like this with no back pain there is a way. And the third one is to provide awareness and recognition around a lot of key charities.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And over the course of that, I did a lot of other feats of strength that fit in that capacity. And we can skip over those. But that was hugely invested as far as what I put into being able to accomplish that because it's over the top, which means other stuff had to shift and I had to learn something. There's so many things that came into place to pull that off. And so, yeah, last March, two days before the world shut down, I did it. It was supposed to be at the largest equipment exhibition in the world down in San Diego as an event. And that got shut down a week beforehand, obviously. So we moved to, let's do it in my gym and invite people. And that was on a Saturday. And Thursday or Friday, they limited it to 25 people for gatherings. I did it on Saturday. And then Monday, everything.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Fascinating to watch. Everything is very intentful about positioning and how you're creating pressure and all this sort of stuff, especially for me. So when I mentioned that half a dozen people have squatted it and half a dozen people have deadlifted it, you understand those people all weigh 380 to 440 pounds. I weigh 265 to 285 depending on where I was between the two. So there's that as well, right? So big, big difference.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's a big part of it. Yeah, because you have to, you're using the resource of the diaphragm for stabilization. And so it's also responsible for respiration and all this other stuff. So even when you're not squatting, you got to be handling those loads.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Plates were weighed afterwards. It was a little bit over. And I did it for almost three reps And that still stands as Guinness world record, just the one rep does, is the most weight ever sumo deadlifted. And one other person has deadlifted a thousand for reps at this point, and that was Thor Bjornsen from Game of Thrones. He's done a thousand for a double as well. Then the next four years, and I did a bunch of feats of strength on the way, but it was all about building that axial loading capacity, the strength of, because now I'm moving the weight from my hands up to my shoulders. And so to do it for reps is like so much harder than a single. Five to ten seconds versus 30 plus seconds to be able to buffer and manage all that with that kind of load is just crazy.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I wanted to do those two, not just one, because I wanted the show the principles that I wasn't. Built for one. I wasn't a specialist because of my lever links, torso links, all that, any outliers, because nobody had ever done a thousand pound squat. So this is it. And a thousand pound deadlift. It was outside of the scope of what anybody's, there's like half a dozen people that have done one or the other, but nobody's ever done both. And I wanted to do something unique. I wanted to do them not only do it, but do them for reps to leave literally no question out there. And there's no competition for that. So it was, this is what I'm going to go do. And to pull it off, I had some past issues with my elbows and stuff that I couldn't work around. So I had to wear straps, which was another reason I couldn't do it in the competition setting. So the first year I worked up and I did a thousand and two pound deadlift.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Over the top, like if you set your mind to a single minded goal, you can go so much further. And I didn't even say what the goal was up front because it was so far out there I would have been laughed at. And that's, I think big goals should be kept pretty damn close to start with for that reason too. And then the second piece was to walk the walk, to show like the principles of what I believed in around human movement, the ability to manage and control the spinal mechanics and the output that can have on the body. And so I wanted to take the two most basic movements that every able-bodied person should be able to do. So fundamental movement patterns, the squat, which is like in the developmental approach is around nine months as a baby from a developmental kinesiology standpoint and a really basic pattern that every able-bodied person should be able to master, the other one being the hip hinge, being able to pick something up off the ground, a deadlift.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is just something deep down to me that is really important. And there's three things that were driving this. And this is a five-year journey that I went through to do this. I really wanted to showcase that you could do something that is well beyond the scope of what people think is humanly possible. So just this inspiration thing, this.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Definitely the one I'm most proud of is that journey for the grand goals. It was like a five-year scope that I chased this. And so when you think about training, it took more than five years, obviously. By that point, I've been training for over 25 years. But it makes me frightened. I mean, there were three distinct things that I wanted to accomplish out of this. So it was really thought out. And this was kind of my exit from being a competitive lifter and basically saying, hey, I'm going to be an Instagram lifter, an exhibition lifter, a whatever. I've done this for 16 years. I was number one in the world for like eight years straight all-time.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source