Just Go Up In Weight - Starting Strength Radio Clips 

thanks rippp good to know

Rip is lowkey hilarious. Just takes awhile to see it.

Rippppppppp is keeping it real as always

you can't go up in weight if you don't eat enough. Learned it the hard way.

A couple of weeks ago I was doing bench press and in the middle of a set I lost the counts (wasn't sure whether I did 2 or 3; probably 3 tho) so I just supposed I did 2 and finished the set. At the end of the set I was afraid Mark would see me doing 6 reps and have me killed.

Faaaiiivves are the Ripp range we like.

It's fine. As he said, if you don't have small plates to work with, you can modify your intensity by adding another rep to it. 225 × 5, then 225 × 6, then 235 × 5 or whatever. At the end of the day, you've got to make progress somehow.

I started the program, but decided I didn't like the movements. Switched squats for calf raises, deadlift for curls & lateral raises instead of the press. I stick to fives and I'm now jacked.

One of the main things I have found with starting strength is their method to make you realise that you can do more than you think or believe are capable of. This is where the add weight to the bar is aimed at, if left to your own devices, you tend to always underload things and not move into the challenging weight range. If you do not send a clear signal to your body that you want to get stronger, it will readily use those same strength gaining resources for other things. Your body is designed to be continually optimising and effectively hoarding resources whenever possible. One of the constants of our entire evolution is that famine/starvation/lack of nutrients has been a given for a millions of years. As a result, your system is set up to prepare for this catastrophe on a daily/weekly/monthly basis as its highest priority. So unless you introduce a stress of sufficient magnitude that "tells" your system that getting stronger is of the utmost importance - above that of famine preparation, it will go to its default position of hoarding/reallocating resources for the day of reckoning. As you get stronger, that signal has to also get bigger, otherwise it will be ignored.

I love this program

Thanks Ripppp!

No, I have to do it that way for squats only. The other 3, I do the regular way. But on squats, I keep tearing hamstrings. So, I stay at the same weight until I can do 3x10, then I go up in weight. It's safer but slower. But is it? I'm not squatting because my hamstring is torn, how am I gaining anything. Not only that, Charles Staley recommends this method.

jesus christ why are people questioning it, its so dam simple!

Why in the SS program arent chin-ups trained loaded up to 5s like the rest of the lifts?

Everything works...till it doesn’t

So I don't follow SS but I created my own SS-inspired program. I've been down this road several times but I'm a current novice who has been intermediate several times before, but took time off and aged a bit. In my current progression I notice that I'm strong as hell every other workout. So I'm thinking instead of being on a novice linear progression where I gain strength every workout, I'm now gaining within 4 days or every other workout. I guess this is a useful data point of determining when you are about to end your novice linear progression.

Id call that the gym bro mentality. Its the same reason people throw on 135 and perform 20 reps. They perceive it to be cool in the eyes of the other gym goers. It takes effort to purchase fractional plates and fight for those small strength increases. Its all too easy to just give up and forever be the person who benches 225x6 and go do your cheat curls.

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Very interesting clip 👍! As a fellow RU-vidr, I am always looking for new ideas! Good Job!

5 is the number of failure. The only reason to do 5 reps is that you're too weak to do 6. 6 is more than 5. You can't argue that.

“How about 3 ‘P’s?”

If you can increase the set by 1 rep every week, the weight is never heavy, otherwise you couldn't do it

It's also mentally easier to add weight instead of fight for 1 more rep.

5 reps take less effort than 6. You have to think about energy used per workout. If you blow your wad on excessive reps (ex bench), your tank will be emptier for your next subsequent lifts in the same workout (ex deadlift). No person on the planet has limitless energy per workout. I swear these questions expose people who have little gym experience. 90% of these "gotcha questions" are from people who never got past week 9 on the novice program.

No reason really to shoot for reps as a novice or intermediate in the main compound movements. Some room for it in assistant exercises, especially where adding 5 pounds is difficult/not possible, like dumbbell movements.

Jeezus grammar please!!!!