The commercial gym problem | Ask Rip #41 

Craig Crawford specifically, deadlifting re-rights the spine

i'm about your age-and been using the gym for about 30yrs.suffer from arthritis and was a bit worried that squats and deads will make it worse-but its having the oppsite effect.joints seem to thrive on exercise.my lifts are actually increasing-which surprised me

Absolutely! I have suffered for years with sciatica, which is painful. You can’t sit, stand, walk or lie down without pain. You know what fixed it? Romanian deadlifts, three times a week. Magic!

Daniel Jones You're my hero!

My man

Thanks , mark rip takes forever to get to his point

Timestamps.....gotta love them.

That holds true for pretty much all seminars, no matter what the subject.

Yup, sounds about right. As a first aid instructor one of the first things I tell my students is that in about two weeks they'll forget 80% of what they learned in the class, so it's better to just focus on the most important things. You probably won't remember the different ways to tie a sling for each injury, but you better know how to do CPR In the same vein, as a trainer you might not remember the minutiae of programming intermediate and elite athletes, but you better know how to teach a proper squat

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@@MithrandirRS If you can lift it comfortably it's not enough weight

Cameron Walls ads are selected by videos you watch. so that's you're fault

I understand how the algorithm works, I just found it funny.

Yeah. It's TRUE. But damn is that fucking hard to do. And the progress is soooooo slow. And you won't even get very strong. Just strong.

plus with the money loss you can have a successful weight loss

Hell I'd pay that to go to one of his seminars!

***** To whom is your comment?

Byron, no, having a Starting Strength (SS) coach tell you how to fix you squat costs between $150 and $225 depending on the coach (see specific training camps), the seminar is much more extensive than that. The seminar is for people who want to (or think they want to) become a SS coach. Considering the combined knowledge and experience offered in both coaching and lecture at a SS seminar, $900 is probably cheap.

Yep, I still think it is a good deal. I want to know more than just how to do lifts the right way. Knowing the mechanics and the nutrition to go along with it is a bonus.

so you keep looking till you find one that has

@@SueRosalie Or you get your own gym.

@@realityandnaturepill yes. Love my garage gym. Significantly better gear than anything a globo gym will have.

Build yourself a nice home gym for a few grand. It’s perfect! Right in your own home.

​@@gregshock except here in europe (france in my case), having a few grand in the bank to build a home gym isn't as simple as it is in america (lower wages overall) plus, in america you have huge houses (due to building cities pretty much in the middle of nowhere and having cheap land, also because houses are built out of plywood and not concrete), which allows you to have a huge garage in which to build a gym in (or even a fitness room) so really, "just build a home gym bro!" isn't as easy as it sounds

what's an individual with genetic endowment got to do with a strength training method that is guaranteed to get any novice at any age stronger than they thought possible

@@SueRosalie Look Jason Blaha up 😂

He's known locally as "The Monster of the Twilight".

Aaron Cook it's an Olympic lifting program, a very exclusive sport. Not for the general public.

Alexander Cobabe It's Powerlifting, not olympic weightlifting

It's general strength training. Simple

I lost a bunch of weight doing SS, if you do it properly, I.e. eating properly, there is no way you won't lose weight. Granted I was obese, nevertheless I lost weight and gained strength at the same time.

@@alexandercobabe9062 it's not an Olympic lifting program and it's not a power lifting program. It's a strength training program

David Rusinak I think its the marketed lifestyle and team atmosphere thing that draws people in, with more of a focus on muscular endurance/cardio than strength (with which people have all kinds of weird associations, meatheads etc)

I understand how Mark said that it's a noble idea. if we can get people past the stage where they get over how hard it is and get them to want to stick out a lifestyle of learning to use barbells, not drinking on the weekends, feeling insecure and pride beaten, finding a gym that lets you do it properly (most gyms are quiet as fucking libraries now), risking injury and surgery, feeling beat up as fuck on a daily basis while having to go to work and raise families, fatigued to the max, hungry, having to eat 5-6 times per day, spending the $$$ to eat 5/6 times per day, and so many other things that you MUST do to properly strength train, then we are onto something. but if you strength train seriously, it is to the gym with you, butterflies in your belly because you will get tested seriously every day. you gotta change how you eat. your clothes will not fit one way or the other...it's time consuming to learn and more time consuming the more you learn. people just want to be seen in thier new gym gear, check out the opposite sex, cross it off a list or join for a second at new year's or a birthday, and think, 'well, i tried." I think that there should be a new model. fuck the model that tries to get the corporate big shots to get on board. they don't care, nor do they even understand what is happening at this seminar. We need a ramped up plan that brings the realities of strength training to people en mass. Try to snag as many that are on the fence with the truth, and teach them how to not continue to being dead in the water. I think that that is happening more. just gonna take about 10 generations of lifters and strength enthusiasts to get that 5% of the people to turn to 10%

Lawrence Malcheff Force Production Powerlifting Something snapped in me this year, now I want to see how big of a freak i can be.

The thing is, the SS business model doesn't play into the widely held misconceptions.

Have you ever done CrossFit? Would you not agree strength without stamina is worthless? What good is it if you can squat 600 but get out of breath and sweat to death when just walking.

At least their business model is not based on keeping their members out of the gym. It's still far from the SS business model and their members won't have any progress with Personal Trainers who don't know how to train themselves.

the one at my gym is always occupied....usually with people doing EVERYTHING other than squats....

I need that shirt.

yea... u need a new coach

I am way ahead of you :D

Isolate if it is some powder. But you are better off eating meat.

Here's a link to a video breaking this down: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QffLlKPk4iA.html Around 3:20 into that video he talks about types of protein powder.

They don't want to teach barbells, they had that for years in original gyms and corporate gyms got rid of that. They don't want to pay coaches who know what they are doing, and don't want to be competent and their job that is not how corporate world works. They don't make money making you better efficiently they make it by doing just enough for as little money as possible.

alan sapirstein Have you tried the Internet?

Yes, he does. instagram.com/p/Bum6twLAoq_/

And I just got about $600 for free! haha

From what the guy said 125% grams of your bodyweight in pounds. I callo bs, but whatever.

+Uncle Slam why do you call bs on that?

Monna7777777 It's excessive. Even the common broscience is a gram per pound of bodyweight, which is more sensible.

The real number (that got inflated over the years) is 1 gram of Protein per 1 KG of LEAN bodyweight. so that means 1gram per 2.2 pounds of bodyweight minus fat weight. 200 pound person with 10 percent body fat need around 90-100 grams of protein.

+joshua2585 but why are mark rippeto, omar, alan trhall, marksmellybell, styrkelabbet and many others saying that it shuld be 1.6-2g/kg bodyweight then? How do you know it´s not that? how strong are you? do you have any proof?

They paid to get coaching not do a q&a lol

@@LTPottenger but they decided to do a q&a...lol

The title of the video is literally “Ask Rip”

@@bigdawg9237 So what? That is just one small part. I would be pissed to sit through it while people asked idiotic questions they can gtfo and I am glad they don't put up with that bullshit.

@@LTPottenger starting strength is literally a platform for beginner lifters. Quit acting like a tough guy because your infatuation for Rip.

In all fairness pain is a part of the game in lifting.

Duemkush710 literally the only way to lose fat without losing muscle is via steroids. It's just a fact of life man

No, this is a myth. See e.g. Greg Nuckols videos (or website, strengtheory).

You usually lose 25% lean mass when dieting. You can lose 10% while fasting but most people are too puss for that

Well that dude was 200 pounds

Ken Carey Getting brutally strong and longevity aren't exactly two peas in a pod. Calorie restriction and fasting are keys to longevity, how the fuck is one going to have cake and eat it as well?

Thats why he surrounds himself with the people you see answering the questions. The guy to his left is an MD or phd and does all of his nutrition stuff.

@@SiegePerilousEsauMaltomite Exactly.

And you do? These subjects are just communist nonsense and corporate sponsorship. Listening to the mainstream will not help you at all.

uhhh...when does anyone say anything about bicycles? I think you missed the pun, friend.

you mean "sports"

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IIRC, Dr. Baraki squats 600 lbs (only belt+sleeves) at 195+/- BW . . . the guy on Rip's left.

Mike Basic he also has a 650+ deadlift and is now the coach of Alan thrall

Paulie Walnuts and what your lifts like pictureless person, because all these guys have 1500 pound totals lol

Paulie Walnuts o and rip is over 60 and still deadlifts over 500 pounds lol

Novices don't need accessories. What's the point in doing a farmers carry if you can't even deadlift 315. Once people become intermediate lifters, and have a strong foundation it's beneficial to do supplementary exercises and accessories, for strength, size and health. But if you're weak, you're only going to be able to famer's carry something that weighs like a couple of bags of groceries, which is a waste of time. You need some baseline strength before you can get any use out of other movements.

its a scientific fact that with cutting you always lose a bit of both tissues, wether being fat or muscle there's always gonna be a loss in both. This Greg Nuckols probably don't know a lot tbh

Petter Do you know who Greg Nuckols is? He was a world record in powerlifting and very clever guy. His website is well worth checking out his website, www.strongerbyscience.com I've never seen him say you won't lose muscle on a cut, but you can't say he doesn't know much.

sorry but it is a scientific fact and you have misunderstood. When you gain weight, you gain some of all the types of body mass including bone, blood, gristle and all the other miscellaneous stuff as well as fat and the different types of muscle. Same again when you lose some weight. It is impossible not to, it's how physiology works. Have you not have body composition scans done yourself? Did not hear the important detail that you can tweak the proportions of those losses and gains somewhat. And that depends on your physical activity and your diet.

95% of people who can bench more than 2pl8 are conservative. Weakness leads to leftism.

just means he has a brain. Only an idiot wants to tear down the country even if that is of short term benefit to them it will not be in the long run. That is why the 3rd world is the 3rd world, the people are not smart and run the country poorly. If you do the same here it will be just as bad.

Lifters are 95% of the time not limp wristed low T liberals