Josh Chamblin is the founder and owner of Capital City Barbell, the strongest gym in Tallahassee. (http://www.thecapitalcitybarbell.com/)

You can find Capital City on Facebook and Instagram at The Capital City Barbell. Email josh@thecapitalcitybarbell for membership inquiries.

Intro and outro music: Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio


TIMESTAMPS

00:30 Basement weights

1:20 The Youtube salad days

02:00 Zoomers are built different

03:30 There’s not enough room in this town for all these good coaches

04:45 Josh was a 5/3/1 bro

05:30 Don’t you ever wish you could go back?

06:00 What Josh’s training looks like now

07:30 “Look good, feel good, move good”

09:00 Motion is lotion

10:45 Some exercises are best done in private

11:30 My side quest with the neck harness

12:30 Josh’s athletic background

13:00 Dr. Zourdos hid a horcrux in Tallahasse

13:30 The origins of Florida State’s weightlifting club

16:00 DUP is conjugate; conjugate is linear; programming is a social construct

18:00 What’s applicable to geared lifting vs. raw lifting

19:00 The curious case of the vanishing EliteFTS article

20:30 The AI coaching takeover

22:00 Coaching your own damn self

22:35 I was never coachable

23:40 How Josh connected with Eric Altman (local powerlifting coach)

24:30 The origin of Capital City Barbell

26:20 Going all in

30:00 How Josh started hosting USAPL meets

32:45 Social media is changing the goal posts for lifting

33:45 The legend of Shane Hunt

36:40 Fake commercial gym weights

38:50 Five actually goes a long way

39:20 The MINDSET advantage of kilo plates

43:40 “The more reds you get on there, the heavier it gets”

40:50 Josh’s best competition lifts

41:00 Josh got stronger after he stopped competing

41:25 Adductor tear

41:45 Other adductor tear

42:00 Being healed vs. being able to train

43:20 Josh’s current goals with his training

45:00 600 pound deadlift incoming

46:00 Josh is looking thick, solid, tight

46:30 ILLUSIONS

47:30 When you bench 405 twice a week, sometimes your shoulder gets angry

50:00 The workout before the workout

51:00 The cure for your injuries is…BLOOD

53:00 One weird trick; take home message