Barbells are Best for Aesthetics with Robert Santana | Starting Strength Radio # 26 

The main thing I have learnt from Ripp is that life is pain and misery and it’s boring. But hey you might as well be strong 😁

Mark ... You could call Alan Thrall to talk at Starting Strength Radio

16:54 "Making egg Hhhwhitess..." 🤣

I would love to have Thanksgiving dinner with Rippetoe

Ever since following Ripp’s advice on aesthetics, my bent over row has skyrocketed! My belly is so large that I only have to pull the bar 1” to complete the rep. Everyone in the gym stares in awe at both my sexy physique and my incredible strength. Thanks, Ripp!

Rip's impersonation of the haters is absolutely hysterical. Funny, funny guy.

Rip needs to do stand-up. He is far funnier.

Coach rip, please consider that women never, ever, tell you the truth. So when they say they don't care about abs, they are lying.

Summary: Acknowledge that aesthetics are mostly genetic. (mostly, there's still room for improvement though) Most media influencers and actors and models are using some form of steroids (strapping gear). Focus on lifting heavier Deadlifts, Overhead Presses and Rows for a more buff physique. Minicuts (done after Bulking) can't be done for longer than 3 months, after 3 you'd start to lose too much of the strength and the built up hypertrophy (you'll always lose some strength when you cut, but it becomes more than marginal after 3 months) Protein is more satiating than carbs. During the minicut, you wanna be eating: 250 g protein 300 g carb 50 g fat Without enough carbs, recovery from training is much slower and thus gains are slower. White meat isn't superior to Red meat how people used to believe back in the '80s Lean Red meat is the best during the minicut.

Bottom 3% checking in! I was down to about 12% body fat about two years ago and was trying to show off my abs to my wife and she said "I don't care about your abs; that's your thing!" Totally lost all motivation. 😆

I have been lifting since I was 16 and I am 33. I took about 4 years off because I was strung out on heroin. I have been back in the gym about 8 months and I am the strongest I have ever been now because of learning from Mark and his methods. I have a 405 bench low 6 deadlift, high 4 squat, and a 265lb ohp at 2019lbs. I had never benched over 365 or deadlifted over 5 before learning the ss method. Some of my gains were muscle memory from being somewhat strong before but would never hit the numbers I do now without SS. Thank you Mark you are awsome!! SS probably saved my life don't know if I would still be sober without my training.

Why are-a Rippetoni's nippetonis hard? Is-a he some-a kinda pervertoni?

I love my abs and would hate a belly. It’s about ME and who cares what women think! Mature women lie even more that naive girls 😂 They lied to you RIP

Pre-corona rip look way happier

As someone underweight it's so refreshing to see people even acknowledge that underweight is a thing.

I love the Santana/Rip podcasts. I must have watched them at least 30 times each one. Informative and hilarious they are!

I just bought and received your book 3rd edition. Thank you Mark for info.

Nope, no need for abs. I like thighs though. And what they lead to. Also, Ripp isn't fat, I'd totally hit that.

At his age and esteem, I hope he cuts out the booze. He could get a 6 pack instead.

Strong is healthy. Big is not.

Bottomline....unless you are an uber-alpha like Coach Rip, you will not get laid hitting a 400 lbs squat PR....but you will with chiseled abs

I don't think you guys were clear enough. Should I be drinking a gallon of milk or not? 😂 Also, are you talking about cow milk or goat milk? 💪

I know Rip doesn't endorse them, but high pulls (mainly snatch) are possibly the best exercise to put mass in the places that signal muscle and power. Heavy clean and press is excellent as well.

I don’t agree with your views on the Hex Bar Deadlift.. It’s a amazing tool in the toolbox

Ripp my girl says she'll leave me if I get above 17% BF, would you recommend the Idaho method to get a 600 lbs squat and maintain my abs while drinking a gallon of cow nectar a day? Regards

Rip, the diet soda protein shake is a genius thing. Its so fucking delicious(i am making mine with diet fanta) and god the taste never became boring. Thanks for the recipe!

Just bring out Steph as proof men don't need abs.

RIP FARTS AT... 1:20:05 AND THEN HE STARTS LOOKING TO THE STAFF MEMBERS WITH SOCIAL GUILT.

I literally cannot remember the last time I ate less than the entire box of cereal. The three or four times a year that I buy cereal, I buy it with the intention of eating the entire thing. I'm going to eat the whole thing anyway and at least this way I don't feel like I failed.

Great podcast. Wood smoke low and slow smoke some chicken breasts with a nice rub and a light basting of bbq sauce. I'm not into dieting but that's the only good way to eat them ;)

How Rip's still laughing at the same joke for what is it, 9 months? 😂😂👌🏻

abs might be ok but when I push something I want it to move

Gosh, let him talk coach. You invited him on your show, let the man talk😅😅😁😁😁

As always the nutritionist has no clue about biochemistry behind what he is saying, let alone anthropology. You don't have to ingest fat to store fat, all you need is insulin and enough calories. This is why after the discovery of food pyramid and processed carbohydrates we get the "only 12% of the US citizens are metabolically healthy" and majority are overweight and obese. Because they are overeating carbohydrates, it has nothing to do with fat intake. All carbohydrates are digested into simple sugars, and once the glycogen stores are full and the body requires no more energy at the current time, all other carbohydrates will be turned into tryglicerides, saturated fat, and stored in adipose tissue, AS FAT. Ofc there are issues with different types of fat, like man-made trans fats and oxidized polyunsaturated fatty acids but that's way too long to explain in a comment and honestly I cba. Long story short, learn biochemistry behind nutrition and health, it helps a lot in understanding the obesity epidemic and why PARTS of what Robert said are wrong. Good place to start, if you are unwilling to actually read the books and study biochemistry, which most are, let's be real, it's a pain in the ass and largely irrelevant for huge majority of people, you will be learning a lot of useless information until you manage to get to the point, IS to look at Dr Paul Mason's videos, there are a bunch of other people who speak about the different aspects of the same topic, but he explained very well, although only the surface level, how the fat is metabolized, stored, and how insulin affects the process. Oh Christ and he is talking about fiber, which in no credible study has been shown to have any benefit, on the contrary, it's been shown to CAUSE constipation, for obvious reasons, like it bulks up the stool, and doesn't lubricate it, FAT and bile do.

This nutrition advice contradicts the advice in the blue book recommending a lower carb diet for fat people. Might want to revise in the next edition. Also, I recommend the next edition focus more on how to perform the lifts and less on theory of the mechanics behind the lifts. Your last book was great for a coach, but too complicated for a trainee. Also, I would tailor the next book to your clients: Many (if not most) people who do starting strength are not athletes, start the program fat, and are older and sedentary. Yet much of your nutrition advice in the book (and in earlier podcasts) focus on skinny, young, athletes. Thus, the focus of your calorie recommendation advice should target the former segment of the market more than the latter. Also, need to quit overemphasizing hip drive, which is less important than teaching people to squat with mid pressure balance over the foot on the descent and ascent. The hip drive is sort of the icing on the cake and shouldn't be overdone. Also, it is beneficial to slow down the progression when technique breakdown starts occurring, rather than racing to put weight on the bar and then deloading when form issues become too significant. There is more but I dont have time to explain. You could get offended about my advice or you could use it constructively to improve your program. Your choice.

The psychologists say that women are drawn to a big wide back as it's representative of a fertile man. They don't say shit about having abs.

Mark and company, how did y'all manage to book Gene Simmons for nutrition???!!! Teasing with respect Robert, thank you for teaching me about nutrition!

Rip is fun, fun, fun and good advice:)))))

1:01:01 I think they missed the fact that once your blood sugar drops to a certain point it triggers hunger hormone "ghrelin". And that when insulin spikes fat burning turns off completely. So eating fat, and protein without carbs burns more body fat as it keeps insulin low. He is correct in saying eating carbs and fat together are a problem. And earlier in the video he mention Marlon Brando saying actresses would "not eat" to lose weight for a role. It's called fasting and its completely safe as long as you have fat to loose.

Men like both big butts and big boobs in women, yet seldom find both naturally. Men are largely the same way. You can either be yoked or shredded, and you will seldom find both naturally. A weak 170 lb boy with abs is worthless when your villiage is being pilliaged. There is a special attraction to men that look intimidating to other men for this reason. My wife was attracted to my broad chest and my large butt. I got both from Starting Strength.

After 10 years on a carnivorous keto way of eating I agree with Mr. Santana. The best way to cut fat is a high carb low fat diet. Way more energy in the gym while on the cut as well. ✌️

Rip is right, you cannot see a 155 pound man's abs in normal clothed circumstances... but boy, do they love to lift their shits up from the waist for any excuse all the time. And the women they are trying to catch their attention of, STILL don't give a fuck about them!! It's like a bug flying around when you're working out, annoying as fuck specially if they are close by.

Women like a rich fat guy because he will most likely die young and leave them a lot of money 😅

Honestly i think cardiho and boxing 🥊 is the best for da astetics or what have you. Coach actually tell me to get the cuts gotta run the fat off. It haves nuffing to do with calories or none of all dat. Its just about how hard do u want it kno my sayin?... Run every day with fail no excuses and u can do the powerlift stuff but you just dont wan to get too strong. The u gone get slow and bulk up but then i gas no my sayin?? All pro fighter know dis. Honestly i do bench and sqaut and all dat power lifts but honestly i just bench da bar. I do all exercise wit the bar only and its only 45 lbs i tink no i mean so that aint dat much weight but do a 1000 reps wit dat shii and u definitely gone feel it no i mean. Its about stamina. It dont matter what u can lift for only one rep or a set of 20. I see lot of people doing sets of ten and i just think u got hecka more bro. I dont like low rep sets like 10-20. For me i do set of 50 minimum and thats where u feel it. Pro tip..... remember if u aint sore in the morning you probably could have went more hard. Okay hopefully this helpful to some one out der. I in workin on getting my coaching certification so anyone hit me up and i gonna bring u to next level. Peace 🕊️🕊️

Running will help every one of your lifts but for some reason Ripptoe equates running a few miles every week to running a marathon

The first part of this conversation is so cringe... "Abs aren't important because women don't care about that shit?" 🤣🤣🤣This presumes that guys can only want abs to attract women. This is false and the fact they don't get this is pretty damned surprising. I want abs because I don't wanna feel flabby when I'm moving around through life. I like feeling solid.

Post raisin bran is the best cereal on earth if you let it sit for about six minutes in the whole fat milk

Low carb diet is still better for you health than low fat. At least if you are older than 25 y.o! It's not just about blood sugar swings, Insulin Resistance, feeling hungry all the time.... Are you even aware of how your body produces Testosterone? Do you need a break-down or you think Testosterone is not important? You cannot get low on fats without having problems due to low Testosterone and it's bad to have fats and carbs at the same time - you said it yourselves. On another hand if you do not know that extra-lean ground beef has up to 17% of fat (macros discussion at 1:15:02), what can I say!

Man obsessed with maximising a 1 rep max in the deadlift laughing at people obsessed with being lean. Pick your poison folks.

my leanest was 11% at 205lbs and it suuuucked getting there. never again

Timeline for the long videos plz

I think for the women the most important is your face. Its mostly your face who say if you re ugly or handsome

Honestly, for most people to thnk someone else looks big, you pretty much only need bit trap, a bit of lat, and impressive arms. If you have full biceps and triceps, that alone makes people think you look large. Take Robert for example: He has very unimpressive arms, no veins, no cuts, soft looking and probably 16 inchs or under. Because of this looking at him as he is, he has a "Do you even lift look" Arms is where it's at really.

We’re not going for 47 year old lady’s though

Robert, you should read articles by John Ionnidas (sp) starting with “All Scientific Research is false”. Epidemiology, particularly nutrition based, is a joke

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Pretty Awesome show!!

after 24 girls dont care about abs... they care about how you smell, your fingernail hygeine, and your 8".... wallet. ))

SS works, much stronger after LP and Texas Method. Stronger than I'd ever been... body fat rose from 10% to 15%. No one would've called me "fat". I looked good in clothes and not bad "nekked". However, for the first time in my life my cholesterol numbers increased quite a lot. And frankly, I hated how that extra layer of fat felt and looked as my waist went from 32" to 35". I cut back on the food and changed my training to include more conditioning. Leaner and feel better now. Lost some strength...about 20% off my peak squat and DL. It was worth it.

Thanks Train to Look Good Conservatively Dressed, another great video.

Another Kick ass video by the Master Mark Rippetoe. Mark, I use to be stationed at Sheppard AFB and I use to drive over to the Sykes Mall all the time. Where exactly is your gym? I was stationed their initially back in 1985 then again in 1998. When I was back in 1998 I was a SSgt and I use to drive all over the price. I wish I had stopped by your gym back then. It would have been pretty cool to just take in your great gym and just shoot the shit. Back in 1998 I was really into Powerlifting style training. I was super into Squatting and doing cleans back then. Best of luck Rip.

I don’t really agree with the your not gonna have arms and not gonna get calves you really gotta train hard and past the point strong man rep ranges 20 30 at times 40 reps and multiple sets 4 at the least and drop sets.

Pff, egg whites? You people are crazy with these low fat diets! Fasting and low carb is the easiest way!

Eddie hall abs at 350 to 385.

The golden ratio is the neck forearms and calves are the same measure and keep the waist as trim as possible. Steve Reeves is said to be almost perfectly proportioned by the standard. But it's only a very few who truly can do it

Great Show. Very informative.

Haha Rip is Hilarious!

Business idea! Plates and Weights dishes, that include grid squares for the ease of measurement when judging the pictures.

I have heard through the grapevine that grown women are interested in a man's wallet. They care not about a man's abdominals at all. In fact, you could waddle around like an obese pig that's been fed corn steadily for a whole year and if you meanwhile have a well-stocked wallet and shiny-looking newish fast car, you will do just fine with women. I'm not saying all women, but I'm saying ... a lot of women. The defining factor here being the actual contents of the wallet and the stuff it produces, like the car, the house, the vacations, the jewelry, dinner parties... Bigger wallet = more options among women (in general). If you are somehow obsessed with your abs, as a man, and you don't earn a lot of dough doing so (like top-tier Mr. Olympia contenders), this obsession will usually only drain you of money, despite what you might think, for example that having (visible) abs means you don't spend much on food. Well, the common denominator with these vain, self-obsessed ab boys is that they spend all day and half the night (or vice versa) admiring themselves like Narcissus in a nearby mirror or camera or webcam, also injecting themselves with chemicals. That is not a sustainable business model, I think. I could be totally wrong; this ab world is not known to me. I do know quite a few women make a decent living posing like that (I have heard through the grapevine), but I know for a fact most women don't age well or gracefully, either. They age rather fast and that dwindles your model options, especially if you live by way of showing off your vacuous and superficial qualities like those women. Then again, I digressed: those women are not really about abs. It's the fitness girls that are. They are always in a bikini or something sporty and make selfies of their butt all day and night, posting the results on Instagram. Most women for sure aren't into abs on their own body. If they do, it will quite possibly lead to anorexia. It is unnatural for most women to have visible abs. If she does, she will not be interested in having children, or cannot, and most probably she is taking some other pills, next the ones that keep unwanted babies out her womb, despite riding miles of various cocks. In a sane world, visible abs are a sign of starvation. I haven't heard of the inmates of a Nazi concentation camp comparing each other's sixpacks. I quess he with the eightpack won the top bunk, right? Well, it is a strange world for sure. This whole ab thing reminds me of that scientific experiment on mice, where eventually the mice stopped being interested in social interactions and only cared for themselves, endlessly grooming their furry bodies and being generally lazy but content, squeaking happily. There must be genetic overlap between mice and men. Let's ask John Steinbeck.

Charles Bronson did work in coal mining in his early years, trained as a boxer the same time, then became one of the first of the legitimate Hollywood karate black belts, largely under Tak Kubota's instruction. So, Charles Bronson trained in explosive movements even aside from any weights he may or may not have done. Look at 1975 _Hard Times_ with Bronson at age 53-54. Impressive.

The fitness industry is so stupid... Agree with Rip... It's so stupid, its funny.

I have no idea how to get more than 2000 Kcalories a day without adding milk or some kind of sweets.

So what do women think of men obsessed with being strong? "I have to do my 5x5 workout or I will get weak!!!"

Per calorie fat is objectively not more satiating than carbs. It's just not what the studies show. Using ultra processed carbs isn't really fair. No one says that those are satiating or healthy. That doesn't mean that, in the context of an entire diet, cutting carbs does not curb hunger more. But it's not because fat in itself is satiating. Whether cutting carbs or cutting fats work better usually depends on how the diet is structured. I've done a fat loss phase in both styles and wasn't more hungry woth low fat. It was kind of a hassle though, a lot of chewing. You have to eat tons of veggies, fuits and actual whole grain products. Also, things like egg whites taste like crap.

Who does the intro/outro music?

Rip u kill me LOL 😭

This was another good simple perspective. Thank you.

Quick note. If you do what I call "wussy" low carb, performance will suffer. Ketogenic diets are dogshit for performance. BUT if you eat at least 12 WHOLE eggs a day, a pound or 2 of red meat, and maybe some vegetables cooked in butter, performance won't suffer and you will feel better than you have in a LONG time. Plus, the anti-inflammatory properties of the diet are awesome, you just aren't sore anymore. And my tendonitis that I suffered with for 18 months just disappeared one day, and never came back.

"...let's not forget, that the deadlift and the press build bigger abs too..." Yes they do, and the humble bodyweight chin up, or weighted chin up involves the abs a lot too, and people would know it if they ever tried them. Most LIFTERS cannot lift their own bodyweight from a dead stop at the bottom up to clear their chin over the bar, even with all that kicking and moving around shit they do in crossfire, they might TOUCH the bar with their chin but they don't CLEAR the bar. Doing three simple sets of all you can do at the end of the workout is all it takes. FROM THE BOTTOM arms fully extended and starting ascent without kicking or moving the knees to the from of the stomach. If that is not possible at least LOWER your fat self slowly for as many as you can. It is good to note this carefully, That the ONLY thing that MIGHT "overcome" your genetics is the weight on the bar going up, whatever greatness there might be in you, it will show up or come up if the weight goes up, and the weight will stop going up if you don't ALWAYS concentrate on improving your technique. Muscle just doesn't grow willingly, it has to be FORCED to grow.

When you get Rip's Dexa reading, it is very inaccurate, but it might be very accurate for Robert Santana. pfff Rip is this way with everything.

easy way to get your egg whites 2-3 slices white bread 10-15 egg whites scoop of protein powder blend it fry it =DELICIOUS pancake thank greg doucete

LOL! I had egg whites with chunks of skinless/boneless chicken, spinach, onion, orange bell pepper sautéed with olive oil and butter for breakfast this morning and seasoned with salt, pepper , ketchup and homemade salsa. It was dee-licious! 💪🥴👍

Who gives a fuck if someone wants abs or not? Both as bad as eachother taking the piss out of each side ur on 🤣 i just feel sorry for the guy who spends an hour doing abs in the gym while I'm doing heavy deadlifts but i dont care about him

1:22:30 people buy a lot of premade frozen dinners and ICE CREAM by the ton

42:55 I'm curious to see the cardio/respiratory data from the strength training group. I think they maintained it but that's just personal experience.

As long as the blood work is ok, why should we care about body fat? Can you talk to blood work? How increasing muscle mass helps overall health.

Well, aesthetics is in the eye of the beholder, but i do bet a lot of women think that Chase has a nicer body than many bodybuilders...

I knew an old German lady used to own a restaurant. She wouldn't eat horse meat because they sweat through their skin. She didn't think it was healthy.

Female attraction is multi factorial coach. The most important thing is to have wide shoulders relative to your waist

Tarzan has his own gym

Abs are like an exotic car. All they do is attract other dudes to come talk to you.

I like these guys. I'm doing the program . But they are not up to date on their nutritional info.

Sergio had a 29" waist.

Great Information

5:14 -5:21 y’all noticed that?

I get a confidence boost from being a fat slob with big lifts my belly and I are bffs

Love the broadcast - thanks Rip. The sound bouncing left and right with the distance from the mic though is bad. Bad.

"And I've asked a girl about this before"

Rip isn’t fat, he just has really thick skin 😂

I do deadlifts so I can cook egg whites in my underwear