The Varg Freeborn Podcast

In this episode I sit down with my assistant instructor and go over the finer points from my force-on-force class at the Alliance Police Training Facility November 9-10, 2019. The course is designed to put students in situations likely encountered by civilians or lone patrol officers. We go pretty deep on some of the concepts and teaching objectives of the class, students' performance, and the idea of this type of training. Check it out.

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In this episode I talk with Geoff who has been following my Discovery Fitness Program for over a year. He has reversed a diagnosis of pre-diabetic, and is pulling 300lbs for a 3RM and 200lbs on bench at UNDER 150lbs bodyweight. He also shares a pretty interesting story about being in a "Hollywood style bank robbery" and how it began his self-defense and subsequent strength and conditioning journeys.

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In this episode I go in depth about CQB preparation, how it can (and should) be trained on the square range, and how we accomplished that in my 3 M's Rifle course this past weekend in Okeechobee Florida.

If you watch shoothouse students closely over many courses, you will see the same patterns of problems emerge:

Mechanical offset
Muzzle control during movement
Mitigating the unexpected movement of others
Getting on line or creating lateral distance
Adjusting manipulations to the environment for safety
Proper operation of mechanical safety
Moving with purpose and solid footwork

I talk about these problems with some depth and how I develop courses to help people overcome these very serious issues. It's not just for people who want to take CQB courses. It is for anyone who plans to use a gun inside of contained spaces and around others who don't need shot.

In this episode I talk about the methods and ideas that have made the home gym life a success for me. A short format episode with some cool tips and useful philosophies about setting up and using a home gym to change your body and change your life.
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I try not to be self-absorbed when I am engaged with people. I also try to learn, to not have “expert’s paradigm” when I am talking to people in casual or business conversations, even if it’s a topic that I have a lot of experience in.

This amounts to being interested in the other person enough to learn about them and learn about what they know. It requires not assuming that I know more than them. It also involves a lack of talking about myself and what I know, until it’s truly appropriate.

This doesn’t work as well in today’s world. Perhaps people’s real world views are morphing into the “social media paradigm” where you have a very short time span to sell a persona or a knowledge set to someone. I swear 8 out of 10 people I meet consider themselves pros, or awesome in some other way, and if you don’t literally fight for attention you get demoted to a learner who knows less, has less or has done less. I watch people do this to each other all the time.

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In this episode I talk briefly on the mental swamp that social media is and how I've come to view it's role in my life. Some ideas about how I've applied my energy and made things happen, and how I've manufactured peace and progress in spite of the internet's negativity.

This episode I sit down with one of my fitness clients to talk about his fitness journey a little bit. Vincent came to me about 4 and a half months ago at 153lbs and he had no athletic capabilities, no weightlifting form, and couldn't move very much weight. Today, he clocks in at 185lbs at roughly the same body fat, squats and deadlifts in the mid 250lbs and is pushing into the 200lbs range on bench press too. He has great mobility, feels great on a daily basis and has been injury free during training. We talk about the wider benefits of strength and conditioning, and what the journey has meant for him. Very cool episode.

Too often I watch people struggling, wasting time or risking too much because there seems to be a lack of mission clarity in their fitness goals. I talk about that in this episode, as well as how guided experimentation has to come before highly effective programming is possible in most cases. I also talk about specificity and balancing risk vs reward in what we are willing to do to ourselves.

A group of students join me, Varg of One Life Defense for a recap and After Action on the April 14 ACA Force-on-Force class I held in Chicago. We discuss lessons learned, suggestions for students to correct behaviors, epic moments in UTM battles and more. (Please forgive the audio quality, this was live on Google Hangouts and something just was not right with it. The content is worth it, believe it.)

A special episode dual releasing the Q&A session I did with P&S on their Primary & Secondary ModCast. What changed my mission in life, industry people, equipment choices, why or why not knives for defense or "making space", and much more.

Matt Landfair and Varg Freeborn discuss Patreon, Patreon Q/A from Varg's page, social media, and society.

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