Q&A Episode - The Sophisticated Hater | Starting Strength Radio  

you all prolly dont care but does any of you know of a trick to get back into an Instagram account..? I was stupid forgot the login password. I would love any assistance you can give me.

@Colton Rodrigo Instablaster :)

@Dexter Dylan Thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site on google and im trying it out atm. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@Dexter Dylan It did the trick and I now got access to my account again. Im so happy! Thanks so much you saved my ass !

@Colton Rodrigo no problem xD

or rubber bands to keep him from snapping at people.

Yup, it's so true. Makes me think of that quote, something along the lines of "when you know the way you see it everywhere." Don't remember who said it but it applies well to the process of strength training.

Was a starting Strength coach. He ran off with barbell medicine. That said he still practices the movements SS style but is following BBMs programming practices.

@@blahasdirtysock3657 he cut out a lot of the pure bullshit from SS though

@Delmond DeVaux The fact that RPE is useless, for example

@Delmond DeVaux the dogma of there’s only the SS way of doing things dude actually thinks trapbars are garbage for example

@@OMAR-vk9pi they are garbage tho bro

Congrats on the new PR, brother! Few things are better than eating a great protein rich meal after setting a new deadlift PR 💪

There would no content for the series though. This guy gets it wrong all the time.

Most people are followers and don't think for themselves, that was fine in a tribal setting so everyone was on page with the biggest oldest toughest smartest guy in the tribe and didn't get themselves or other tribe members killed. It's a disaster in a complex modern society with many competing voices most of which belong to conmen or even worse sorts of criminals.

Wow. I know it’s a late reply, but I had the exact same thing happen. I have less than one drink a month, but when the VA assigned me a new primary care provider, she was convinced I was an alcoholic due to the liver stuff, and that my kidneys were damaged due to slightly elevated creatinine numbers. But when a sedentary, obese medical “professional” literally told me to exercise less during our first meeting, I never trusted her judgement again.

Reminds me of Fansong by Dethklok

would you be my friend?

For a fee

I'm being gangstalked.

In his dogma fat ways

I think he is more like Plato: less sensation more logic.

I'm getting an image of a lobster holding tablets in its claws. And now because I wrote "tablets" I'm thinking of tablets as in those extra-sized smartphones.

The mighty Lungmen of King David

rough times

I'll pay for you pal

But did u try chalk > hook grip > mix grip first before straps

Honestly they probably will. People donate to streamers just to get their message on the screen for OMEGALUL spam.

just eat meat the rest is garbage for peasants

Don't worry, Rip is now giving orthopedic surgery advice. You know, against the guy who has had 15,000 hours of surgical and clinical experience.

Same here. When I switched to 3x5 it was like a light switch coming on

@@aumurphy yep me too!

@Raimonster I phrased it wrong. Obviously it wasn't 95% of 1RM but rather 90-95 % of my 5RM. My bad Also, when I started switching over to more SS-centric training. I trained prior to that too of course but very sporadically.

Why don;t you read the book? You reduce weight 10% and start over.

@@LTPottenger which one, the blue or the grey one, I don't remember what they say when you stall in progress, besides lower the reps. Great, and if that fails keeping resetting? Cos for the press is a very different approach.

I've been there a few times, so other than the book answer, here's what you should know: 375 is a decent squat, but not one advanced enough at your BW which demands some sort of advanced training regimen. It's possible you could benefit from that sort of thing, but also possible (even more likely) that an advanced training routine fails you because you aren't set up to really reap the rewards of how they tend to be structured. Your plateau is caused by a breakdown somewhere either in form, diet, sleep, etc. Whatever the reason you're not hitting 375, it didn't just start cropping up at that weight. You have some source of inefficiency that you could "muscle through" before but is stopping you at that particular weight. So this fix is to reduce weight 10% and start over. But don't just keep doing what you were. Pay attention to your form, record it on video, compare the footage you take to Rip's various cues and descriptions of squat technique. Go on the forum and get feedback. 99% of the time that will fix your issue. There is a much smaller chance that your failure at that weight could be caused by you screwing up some other variable like sleep, diet, etc. Only you would know if you screwed one of those up on the day in question, but given that you struggled on the volume day that's probably not the case

Also, the prescribed reduction in load is from 5-10% according to the book. Understanding how much to reduce the load depends on the nature of the problem that is causing the failure. If you suspect or are told that your squat has some pretty major issues in technique/form, take more weight off and work your way back up. If this is the first time you have to reduce weight, I'd reduce as little as possible or even just take a few days off. You might be surprised what a few days can do in terms of helping you to recover from cumulative fatigue. If a few days off helps, I'd still focus on technique as the likely culprit. Breakdowns in form dramatically increase fatigue. And with fatigue I wouldn't just limit yourself to looking at the squat, It's entirely possible that it's your deadlift which has a form breakdown, and your squat is paying a price because the DL is taxing your body more than it should

Hahaha- awesome.

He used to be an SS coach

The bent over row video with Niki.

sounds kinky

That must be when rip stole his method lol

If you can get it down. The gomad is mainly for teenagers and others who don't want to eat

That lack of research on compounds 😂

The other way around, boy.

The doctors today have online degrees and go by a checklist based on lab numbers. They are absolutely useless and expecting them to tell you information you don't know as a reasonably intelligent person who has spent a few hours researching into the subject is going to lead to disappointment.