37 episodes

Hosted by Varg Freeborn, The Varg Freeborn Podcast is about balance. Fitness, violence, self protection, responsibility, fear, ambition, drive, leadership, business...through the lessons of adversity we can learn to live successful and strong lives.

The Varg Freeborn Podcast Varg Freeborn

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.9 • 54 Ratings

Hosted by Varg Freeborn, The Varg Freeborn Podcast is about balance. Fitness, violence, self protection, responsibility, fear, ambition, drive, leadership, business...through the lessons of adversity we can learn to live successful and strong lives.

    Authenticity in Our Stories

    Authenticity in Our Stories

    Just a quick episode talking about developing authenticity in the stories we tell ourselves, and how to achieve our vision with genuine intent

    • 27 min
    Episode 35: Is it REALLY alright to smack people for verbal offense?

    Episode 35: Is it REALLY alright to smack people for verbal offense?

    A recent celebrity event has brought out a chorus of responses that I simply disagree with. This is a quick and dirty episode on that topic.

    • 30 min
    34: A Client Interviews Me: Daniel Shaw talks about Strength and Fitness with me

    34: A Client Interviews Me: Daniel Shaw talks about Strength and Fitness with me

    In this episode I get the unique experience of letting one of my strength and fitness clients interview me a little about as we talk about his progress and some great details about programming and strength & fitness training. Daniel Shaw is also a well known gunfight instructor in the firearms training world, a combat vet and a very knowledgeable guy all around. This was a new level of discussion about these topics that I really enjoyed.

    • 40 min
    33: My Remote Coaching Program and why barbell training ticks me off

    33: My Remote Coaching Program and why barbell training ticks me off

    In this episode I talk specifically about my remote coaching program for strength and fitness conditioning, including the introduction of my new program Team JACKED, a super affordable team-based way to get strong and fit. I also talk about what gets under my skin about barbell training in the current era of fitness and, in my humble opinion, what we've lost along the way.

    • 34 min
    32: AAR with Students from the Alliance CQB Force on Force class

    32: AAR with Students from the Alliance CQB Force on Force class

    This episode is a live after action review with multiple students that attended my Force on Force CQB course at the Alliance Police Facility shoothouse May 16-17. We talk in depth about some of the takeaways and memorable moments of the class, as well as discuss the class structure and what the next class will look like.
    (Note: this is a LIVE recording, so please excuse the audio quality as there were multiple participants on various devices.)

    • 1 hr 45 min
    31: Client Interview with Johnny on Training specificity, component training, general preparedness

    31: Client Interview with Johnny on Training specificity, component training, general preparedness

    In this episode I sit down with one of the clients of my remote fitness coaching program. Johnny has achieved some phenomenal results in a few short months, and that was after him training at a very high level of effort for nearly a decade. We talk about how we achieved new goals, PRs and how multi-method training has been for him after 10 years of exclusively Crossfit style training.

    • 53 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
54 Ratings

54 Ratings

Dave12689932909 ,

Violence dynamics defined perfectly

Most martial arts and self defense instructors concentrate their time on the fight. It just needs to be in line with HOW violence really happens in the world, these podcasts nail that home.

M-Ful ,

A1

Amazing podcast with content and experience related to the martial life that you simply won't get anywhere but here.

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