Scale As Needed Podcast

Previewing The Arnold Strongman Classic With Kalle Beck & Strongtalk

Check it out: the US Olympic Team Selection Process is pretty intense and not very many people actually understand it. Listen in as Armen explains the process from how countries earn spots to the Olympics to how USA Weightlifting will be choosing the individuals to represent USA at Rio 2016

Armen goes over the process he uses and suggests you use when you have to come up with a good workout for yourself.

Armen chats about why we're all hypocrites when it comes to PEDs in weightlifting and other sports and also how he recently redeemed himself for being a dick to Graham Holmberg once.

Sean Waxman joins Armen to chat about the size of the American Open, storylines at the IWF World Championships, USA's team at Worlds, and USAW's organizational woes.

"In CrossFit you don’t see someone do a muscle up and assume they’re going to be a professional gymnast, but there are hundred of thousands of people who do a workout and suddenly think they’ll make it to the Games at some point." Listen in as Armen talks about getting perspective, surrounding yourself with the right people, and making sure you're not actually working towards someone else's goals.

Armen talks about resetting goals and how your mindset will determine how pissed or pleased you are with how training is going.

Listen in as Armen chats about renewing his L1 and why building an aerobic base is so important.

Join Armen Hammer as he chats about the Dos and Don'ts of running or opening a good gym and why you shouldn't talk about things when you have no idea what you're talking about.

Armen Hammer chats about the simple question: "What's it mean when people say they need to get better at CrossFit"?

Armen Hammer chats about The 10% Rule and the pyramid of fitness, similarities in programming between Ilya Ilyin, Chinese weightlifters, and high level powerlifters, and why your workouts should be specific.

Armen Hammer talks about why Mikko Salo is a legend, Pat Mendes' positive drug test at the Pan Am Games, Dave Driskell's handstand at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, and FloElite's Going Team documentary.

Join Armen Hammer as he chats about how terrible True Detective Season 2 was, the ridiculousness of athletes paying to participate in the CrossFit Games season, and just how messed up the scoring for the peg board event at the 2015 CrossFit Games was.

Armen Hammer and Kati Breazeal cover their experiences at the 2015 CrossFit Games, the soul crushing prelim workout that has kicked off qualifications for the Crush Games, and Rush Club 005 predictions, including the beat down Sam Dancer will give Dan Pela in the men’s heavyweight division. 

Join Armen Hammer and Julien Pineau as they chat about the growing levels of strength in strongman, where the sport is headed, and the possibilities of smaller weight classes becoming popular.

Armen Hammer and Sean Waxman cover the organization of weightlifting in the United States and chat about lifters to watch in the upcoming PWA Championships, including Donovan Ford, David Garcia, and D'Angelo Osorio.

Armen Hammer and Julien Pineau cover the organization of amateur and pro strongman in the United States and internationally as well as strategy for the farmer's walk, yoke carry, MAS wrestling, strongman deadlift, and log clean & press events in Odd Haugen's Strongman Challenge