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.
@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.
"If it's not sufficiently cryptic, it's not impressive to them." Golden, right there. This applies to so many fields and behaviors. I'm thinking especially of postmodernism and critical theory in Academia. Mysticism and obscurantism work on simple-minded and weak people, because it SEEMS complicated, but doesn't demand hard work, just a lot of handwaving.
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.
Alan Thrall is a Starting Strength coach. Correct me if I am wrong. Rippetoe has the credit for 5 step setup. Also - Barbell Medicine, Barbell Logic, Untamed Strength - check out where the guys are coming from.
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.
"No one will ever love you" omfg I can't even function I'm lol so hard. I think that is the funniest thing I've ever heard. Stitches and tears... As I cook my fried chicken, after my new pr deadlift. Thanks rip and ss crew
This is the pre-eminent non-typical fitness channel on RU-vid: no flexing of roided-up muscles, no shirts off, no days of eating, the drama is contained to the comments from the haters down below here where they accumulate (some call it Hell or Purgatory, where the 3% are waiting to be judged), the comments from viewers can be unusually witty (they just ooze superiority of mind), no mind-muscle rants, very little tattoos I can see, no bold claims about inches of growth in a couple of weeks, no fake plates, no hoes strutting around like strumpets when the camera is rolling, no grunting, no posing (or very little thereof: I still can't unsee Rip doing poses during one of these), and Rip's guns are definitely not what built this channel. You know, every other fitness channel is built on the guns. All Rip has is those puppies -- he's talking about them now before the 5-minute mark even -- and he's got that monstrous lobster claw with which he grabs your attention and doesn't let go. It's hypnotizing. It's ... Friday.
Complex things are refined to concepts and then principles. Starting Strength is a very complex set of observations refined to a principle. In order to understand the principle they have to absorb the underlying observations. Most people won’t-you haven’t read the book-so they look to pragmatism, to concretes in order to avoid what they have been told is dogma. Variety appeals because it seems to have a better chance of working than a principle they don’t understand, or trust. In other words, life is complicated, it’s not black and white, so therefore any solution must be complex.
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.
The doctor told me the same thing about my liver enzymes being extremely elevated. She was convinced that I was an alcoholic. I told her that I “Powerlift” and she seemed obviously bewildered by the possibility that the two things could be connected.
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.
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.
That last comment from the haters is clearly a schizoid from 4chan. I was expecting him to start rambling about the Antarctic spiders that escaped from an underground DARPA lab in New Mexico, that resulted in intense combat with Special Forces.
How are you going to get good [reverb on] Comments from the Haters [reverb off] if you adopt a subscription model? Do you think Haters will pay for the privilege of posting snarky comments?
The same preference for complication over simplicity for weight training applies to dieting. I can't count the number of friends who have asked advice about losing weight. They want the answer to be some exotic fruit, "secret" herb(if it were truly a secret how would I know about it? Duh) or overly structured eating plan. When I say start with reducing or dropping soda (pop) and drinking water instead, they look dumbfounded. Americans soft drink themselves into obesity, but that that isn't sexy enough. Oh well. If someone can't do the basics, why the hell do they think they can do the advanced?
When I first started I did 5x5 squats, presses and deadlifts across all three week days with an intensity of about 90-95 %. I had no clue how draining that would be in the long run lol.
@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.
My buddies and I used to argue about Tombstone and Wyatt Earp... I always got ganged up on and lost the argument. I am now officially vindicated. Thanx Rip.
Hey Rip! Love the show. I got a question, for the first time in my training I got stuck in the bottom of the squat in a 374.78 single attempt. I'm 31 year old, weight 209, doin the intermediate 4 day split, and in the volume day (monday) I do 5x5 with 286.60 (barely alive), so what now? keeping trying and failing until some day I manage to do the rep, keeping raising the weight in the volume day, do the advanced protocol or what? Consider my rest and my nutricion good enough to not stall the progress. Thank for the answer.
@@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
There’s an actual scientific reason that a day to a 3 year old (or even a 13 year old) seems so long, as opposed to an older individual. It’s literally the way that memories are formed, and the way we experience time and recall it. It’s strange really.. to a 10 year old. 1 year is literally 10% of their entire life.. so if you’re 3.. you’re really taking in literally everything you see, everything you hear, everything you experience. It’s all getting soaked in. But when neural plasticity starts to slow down and solidify a little more, memories aren’t made quite as often, your experience level and you’re attention isn’t constantly going 24/7... (I mean, how often do is adults remember going to work or somewhere and thinking... I dont even remember driving here... wtf??) Anyway. Just wanted to say that useless scientific info. I tend to love and fixate on stuff like that. I’m a new viewer/listener, and I have no idea about you or this channel, but I’m liking so far.. so good job in my opinion!
Man I love Mark Wolf's voice, but this Rippetoe guy sounds more like Larry King after decomposing for these past few months. . . My audition for comments from the haters. 😘😘😘
The only podcast I watch on a regular basis 👍. Wyatt Earp on my watch list. Timothy Dalton is my #3 James Bond impersonation after Dan Craig and Sean Connery.
A quick internet search yields an article about ALT and AST enzyme levels, how strength training can double these levels for up to a week after a training event, and how GGT levels are typically unaffected by strength training but are commonly associated with liver damage. It seems that a competent doctor would either know this information or be capable of quickly finding this information, at which point they could either examine the blood test results for GGT levels or order a new test to specifically measure GGT levels. If GGT levels are elevated, then continue investigating liver damage or dysfunction. If GGT levels are “normal”, then do nothing, because the patient is just a normal, healthy strength trainee. It’s astounding to me that these people manage to remain employed as medical professionals. Perhaps we are indeed better off having AI algorithms diagnose diseases.
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.