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Blog postStarting Strength Coaches Inna Koppel and Brent Carter discuss Brent's career from starting as a personal trainer to Starting Strength Gym owner.
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Blog post2021-01-18 55 Gallon Edition | Q&A Episode - Bottom of the Barrel; A Tip for Not Giving Up on Your Deadlifts; Mark Rippetoe Makes Fried Okra; Goals 103: Nobody Cares; Weightlifting Shoe Soles; Hauntological Corrective Exercise: A Critique and the Implications of Physical Therapy; Revisiting the Barbell Row; Taller Lifter and Back Issue; Sightseeing in WF
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Blog postRip discusses some details and lessons learned while doing the barbell row over the last year.
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Blog post[I]f two people have the same musculoskeletal abnormality and the same healing intervention is applied to both but one’s pain goes away and the other’s does not, what is the purpose of that leftover pain? What is its purpose if it is not actually protecting us from danger? Why is it so unreliable? What do we make of pain in a phantom limb, one that has been amputated or lost catastrophically?
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Blog postMark Rippetoe answers Starting Strength Radio fan questions about training with prosthetics, serious limb length discrepancies, and from lots of 63-year-old guys.
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Blog postMark Rippetoe makes fried okra the way it was made at the Floral Heights Cafe in Wichita Falls.
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Blog postLet me tell you a little secret about your training: nobody cares. Your wife or girlfriend may pretend to care, but she definitely doesn’t. Your friends don’t, your mom, dad, and siblings don’t. Even your dog doesn’t care. So why train? I’ll tell you why: because you care.
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Blog postWeightlifting shoes are support for the foot under a load, and a tool for more effectively distributing the lifter's bodyweight and the weight of the barbell across the plantar surface in contact with the platform. The surface of the shoe in contact with the platform can be of various materials.
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Blog postStarting Strength Coach Andrew Lewis demonstrates a way to help focus your attention and effort for heavy deadlifts.
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Blog postEdge Effects Edition 2021-01-11 | Outlaws, Inc and Careers for Veterans; Strength Training to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes; Understanding Your Value as a Coach: Charging a Professional Rate for a Professional Service; Conditioning, Strength, and The Two Factor Model of Sports Performance; Misloading the Bar; An Examination of Control of the Supine Hand in a Heavy Deadlift; Form Creep; Do I correct my posture before I continue with the program; Starting at a powerlifting gym
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Blog postIt is an absolute certainty that technical execution in both training and performance will change slowly over time, slowly enough that the athlete’s perception of his own technique remains unchanged during the process.
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Blog postWhile the alternate grip improves the lifter’s ability to hold onto the bar and complete the lift, there are disadvantages to this technique. One disadvantage is the asymmetry that is introduced at the shoulders...[and] there is a tendency of the supine hand to drift away from the legs and forward of the mid-foot in an alternate grip deadlift...[T]his article will examine possible explanations for why it occurs and cues that might be useful for countering this tendency.
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Blog postMark Rippetoe and Starting Strength Coach Jon Miller discuss apprenticeships in the trades and at Starting Strength Gyms as a viable approach to successful transition out of military life for veterans.
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Blog postMark Rippetoe discusses conditioning for sports and clarifies the Two Factor Model of Sports Performance with a caller during a recent live Q&A.
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Blog postDemand is good. A full gym is good. A full roster of personal training clients is good. But a full roster of clients doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to be making an income that is reflective of your talents. There is money to be made in this industry. Money is made in this industry every year by people less talented and less qualified than you. There is no reason why a qualified and experienced SSC should be out-earned by less-talented and less-knowledgeable personal
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Blog postA good habit for a lifter to get into is to verify that the bar is loaded correctly and that the plates are tight before starting each set. This helps prevent misloads, where the weight is accidentally too heavy or too light, or where the load is different at each end of the barbell.
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Blog postStarting Strength Houston member Ken Roberts discusses his health improvements, strength gains, and training experience with coach Josh Wells.
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Blog post2021-01-04 | Questions from the Lovers - Fix It In Post; Starting Strength and Our Coach have Given Us Our Life Back; How to Talk to Your Friends and Family About Strength Training; Coach Recruiting - Careers in the New Fitness Industry Update; How to Safely Handle the 45s; Best time of day to train?; Started TRT today; My Experiences with Starting Strength; The Standing Overhead Press
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Blog postThe correctly-performed Press (incorrectly-performed exercises do not count) is not merely perfectly safe for the shoulders. More importantly, the Press is the best exercise for keeping shoulders strong and injury-free. Here’s why.
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Blog post"I had read about strength and conditioning topics for years, and learned a few things at the tutelage of some legendary Steelers who really know their stuff. He reminded me of much I have forgotten and some stuff I’d never learned. Many of these things seem basic in retrospect, but a lot that is basic is also easily forgotten, even things that were well known in the past. And excelling at anything is more about being good at the basics than anything else."
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Blog postA live Q&A episode in which Rip takes call-in questions from Starting Strength fans.
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Blog postStarting Strength Gyms coach recruiter and Starting Strength Coach Inna Koppel discusses updates to the Starting Strength Coach pipeline and answers commonly asked questions about working at a Starting Strength Gym and the recruitment process.
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Blog postIt can be frustrating to try to help friends or family members start lifting. It's obvious that strength training will help them improve their lives and health, but they seem so resistant to the idea. The problem is that they are at a different stage of idea acceptance than you.
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Blog postThe bread and butter of barbell training is the 45-pound cast iron plate. They were invented in the United States decades ago, they are not kilos, all black iron gyms have them, and they are the standard by which strength is measured.
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Blog postAfter working with Starting Strength Coach Christian Conti-Vock for 3 months, George and Deb describe their experience in overcoming chronic back pain, managing type 1 diabetes, and improving performance in day to day life.
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Blog postSewing Things Up Edition | A Debate on Solutions; Mark Rippetoe Teaches You How to Make Texas Chili; Strengthlifting: A Better Way to Compete; All-Season Training; Squats Are Hard – But the Bench Will Kill You!; The Map of Athletic Performance; Strength vs. Endurance: Why Are You Wasting Your Time in the Gym?; Skis and knees; Left tricep severely irritated from low bar squat
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Blog post"[A] properly-designed strength training program constitutes a much better use of the same amount of time a “cardio” workout takes, and provides far more benefits to your quality of life. This is especially true if you’re older...Here’s why."
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Blog post"Recently it occurred to me that physical adaptation to athletic training follows a predictable pattern that depends not only on a consistent commitment to continued improvement, but an intelligent approach to that commitment that not all training methods possess. This article is the story of my synthesis of this pattern into a concept I call The Map."
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Blog postMark Rippetoe and science journalist John Horgan have a discussion on possible paths forward for individuals and businesses and debate the question of how much government intervention in an individual's health is too much.
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Blog postRip demonstrates the "fast" way to make Texas Chili.
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Blog post"Many moons ago, when I was a high school defensive coordinator and strength coach in Florida, I attended a seminar that was being taught by the head football coach at Miami at the time, Butch Davis. A high school coach in the audience asked Coach Davis..."
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Blog postYou could call this article “White Noise 2.0,” as in many ways it’s a follow-up to one of my earlier articles, The White Noise of Heavy. I wanted to go into more detail on two of the lifts in particular: the squat and the bench press. Both are challenging, but in very different ways.
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Blog postRip discusses strengthlifting, a strength competition he developed that involves no judge participation, pressing instead of bench pressing, and a weigh out rather than a weigh in.
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Blog postGrand Conjunction Edition 20201221 | A Conversation with Chase Lindley; What You Need to Do Starting Strength; Why Barbells to Get Bigger and Stronger; Introducing Your 14 and 15 Year Old To Strength Training; Quit Skipping Your Deadlifts; Why Fives for Strength Training?; Deadlift Mechanics; Post-workout vision changes; Lat pain and weighted belt
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Blog postStrength training has long been the victim of a lack of focus on the movement patterns of the segments of body itself, in lieu of the great deal of attention being paid to the constituent components – the “muscle groups” of bodybuilding-think. Let’s examine your favorite and mine, the deadlift, from the perspective of rigid-body analysis, and see if we can’t come to a better understanding of what actually happens when a bar is pulled from the floor.
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Blog postStarting Strength Seminar Staff Coach Brent Carter explains the continuum of rep ranges and why sets of five work best for strength training.
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Blog postMark Rippetoe and Starting Strength Coach Chase Lindley discuss his recent 405 lb press PR, growing up at WFAC, and his path to the Starting Strength Coach certification.
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Blog postRip discusses the Starting Strength method exercise selection criteria during a Starting Strength Seminar at Wichita Falls Athletic Club.
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Blog postWe want the best for our kids, don’t we? We’ve made so many mistakes in the gym, let alone in life, that we don’t want our kids to do the same. We don’t want them to waste time, to go down dead ends, to get frustrated and quit before they reach their goals. Since you are reading this, you value strength, and you want the same for your kids...
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Blog postMaking sure you show up to the gym consistently is the single most important thing you can do in the long term to ensure you actually get strong. Lots of sub-optimal programming has been used by lots of people to get very strong through the long-forgotten method of walking into the gym three days a week, adding weight to the bar as often as possible, and eating enough to get big and strong.
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Blog postStarting Strength Coach Ray Gillenwater runs through the basic equipment you need to get started with barbell training.
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