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Barbell Shrugged Podcast with Christopher Sommer

April 23, 2014 By Gregor Winter 3 Comments

The Barbell Shrugged guys had gymnastics coach Christopher Sommer on the show.

Besides bashing Crossfit here and there he also talks about his observations from coaching professional and beginning athletes.

I was kinda surprised to find this insightful youtube comment, which sums up my opinion pretty well:

I think Chris Sommer is pretty right in what he is saying. A great piece of advice. Thanks for putting it out there!! However, I don’t like his slightly arrogant, prejudiced attitude. He might be right to be kind of frustrated about Crossfit’s take on gymnastics, but as a coach he should also know that people never stop learning.

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Comments

  1. Blair Lowe says

    April 24, 2014 at 06:12

    You’d have to dig up old posts in the CF forum but Chris and Greg parted words, well Greg mostly back around 2004. It was worse via private messages or emails.

    And he hates the Butterfly kipping pullup.

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  2. Michael says

    April 29, 2014 at 07:45

    Regarding the quote: you’re mistaking his matter-of-fact attitude for arrogance. He’s not an arrogant guy but he is clinical in his delivery and that can be abrasive to some. This podcast was medicine to a lot of people who want to short cut and ‘hack’ their training. I’m sorry but medicine does not taste good – that’s how it has to be.

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  3. Blair Lowe says

    April 30, 2014 at 07:54

    Agreed with Michael having met him at a meet and at his seminar.

    Reply

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