There's a weight at which you can start | Ask Rip #38

[@southpawje]

"Do what we're(StartingStrength) telling you to do, not the bullshit you've invented to do for yourself"...love it

[@danielbuege1]

12:24

[@jamesstasi2895]

You can never go wrong doing the right thing -Mark Twain

[@MagnusVenatus]

Rip is such a fucking savage

[@bensommerMusic]

The Most Interesting Man In Strength

[@maxxxmodelz4061]

I think Rip and Louie Simmons would make a great podcast duo. They wouldn't agree on much, but they are both extremely interesting characters.

[@RustyIronloins]

Rip's shirt FTW!

[@HAL-dm1eh]

3:51 That guy was so close to marking his shirt all up

[@anthonyhulse1248]

Doing squats and deadlifts after total knee replacement and ankle fusion.

[@glennmuir5617]

I hope the "Cardio Girl" didn't get her SSC certification.

[@kcmiles9832]

Love Rip's shirt

[@rustyblade9366]

He probably went and did the texas method

[@Alex-lu3pn]

1:47 Which 4-day split is Rippetoe referring to? There are many 4-day splits mentioned in Practical Programming. Is it the 4-day variation of Texas Method?

[@JohnDeezNuts]

he is probably referring to the 4 day texas method from Andy Baker link: www.andybaker.com/adding-assistance-work-to-4-day-texas-method/

[@kevl-it8mv]

@excellentyogurt What the hell are you talking about?

[@OhioPrepperOne]

What did he mean, at the end, by, the Sled will interfere with it? Not sure what he was referring to, maybe i misheard...

[@Mr66Undertaker]

he was referring to the novice linear strength progression (adding weight multiple times during a week to your big lifts). So if you are doing the Starting Strength program, don't add hard exercises such as the sled, you will not be able to recover from them and your deadlift or squat progression will stall.

[@666legnadibrom]

That lady just would not get it, jeeeze

[@tennofabiost.clements1715]

Hard labor can stimulate the immune system to go into super-fight mode, you can activate endorphins and get high off of training + when you learn to bathe in pure ice water. Farming or construction work is good, demolitions is good, high stakes security jobs are very good.

[@Secretname951]

Awww, I wish I was younger so I could do the Texas method 😢

[@thenorthman9475]

Shit, I'm about to do the Texas method. Going to be 45 in November. Figured, I'm a ranger...i can do that shit. Lol

[@karlashton6746]

How did it go?

[@bjureanriksson3051]

@@karlashton6746 He dead now😆

[@DanteLikesRock]

Lmao. Rip.

[@Obsidian1392]

Why is the Texas Method ever done if it's harder to recover from? Doesn't it yield the same weekly increases that a 4 day split or a H/L/M program do (e.g. 5lbs on squat each week)?

[@coreyhill7058]

Probably an extra 5-10% more gains

[@sumsar01]

TM will go on for longer. H/L/M doesn't tamper with volume and at some point, more volume is needed to disrupt homeostasis + volume is the most important driver of hypertrophy and at some point you will need more muscle mass to get stronger.

[@BigBusiness02]

Zora Neale Hurston writes dialect better than any author I've come across including Twain

[@thecastle09]

TM is brutal

[@GODHEPME]

nice shirt rip

[@eli9478]

I love the intro music.

[@jeffreyabelson7171]

Huck Finn may be the greatest novel in American History (with Moby Dick right behind)

[@ahmedalmahdi9254]

i love rip

[@thehumblebardmusic]

Would be interesting to see how Rippetoe adapts the Starting Strength model to those who can't yet lift an empty barbell in each specific lift. It's probably within the book, but I've not had the opportunity to read the entire book to date.

[@FrissOderLassEs]

I cannot imagine who that is, but my guess is by using a short (=lighter) barbell.

[@spannycat2]

I did Starting Strength even when I couldn't bench or OHP the 45lb empty barbell. For Bench, I started with the 33lb red barbell (women's bar). And for OHP, I started with the 25lb mini-bar.

[@Sunyyyyy]

OMG that s me! Even 12 kilos is toi much for me 😭😭😭, si i ard in 1.25 kilos increments

[@chrisrodriguez4139]

Rogue makes a bar as light as 5lbs. It’s geared toward youth but would be applicable to any beginner or elderly

[@LTPottenger]

leg press machine

[@vonkaiser6115]

Rip wouldn’t make a 16 year old kid do TM? Why? What if theyre not novice anymore?

[@shanedempsey6114]

hunter s Thomson is the only person i would say is close

[@RasputinReview]

I can sum up this video in three sentences\ a: don't De balls b: don't do the Texas method c: DON'T DO THE TEXAS METHOD

[@RIP5582]

I would walk straight back out of a gym if I was confronted by that wailing bagpipe waving her hands all over. How about we go to a seminar and then proceed to tell the convener how we know so much more than they do.

[@LTPottenger]

A lot of stupid people who obviously don't believe strength matters in these Q&As I have to wonder wtf they are doing there.

[@a.c.7942]

I have SS 3rd edition, is that the book he is referring too? I am having trouble finding the four day split in the programming chapter.

[@EADP1]

I believe it's in Practical Programming for Strength Training 3rd edition (not sure about other editions). In fact, there's a section called "the four day split routine" if I remember correctly.

[@GypsyKingTF]

EADP1 you remember correctly

[@a.c.7942]

Thank you. I'll have to buy that one next.

[@EADP1]

I recommend it. It'll pay for itself many times over in the form of pounds on the bar.

[@adamfranklin1126]

Pg 156, "One Lift Per Day"

[@osmarbernardesjunior2078]

"but she is a soccer player..."

[@matthewlowe1265]

it is Forbidden! LOL

[@Ichorof]

What do you mean sled will interfere with novice gains ? And what do you mean you mean by Novice gains ? If you are untrained in something you'll progress much more in it but I've never heard about something that can shut this down ?

[@georgez5891]

Ah he said earlier, recovery is finite, so if you do extra work on top of Starting Strength, i.e. pushing prowlers, your lifts will not improve as fast because you are hampering recovery. No doubt you would get drastically better at pushing prowlers but Rip is claiming that squats are more important for a novice

[@melo15813]

Im on ICF novice now and my lifts are going up but im not gaining any weight. Im eating my bodyweight times 20 in calories but still not gaining weight, maybe icf novice is to much volume? Im considering switching to SS but im still not sure.

[@nijowe93]

The training program has nothing to do with it, you don't eat enough. If you don't gain weight you simply don't eat enough.

[@osmarbernardesjunior2078]

Eat 5 thousand calories per day

[@melo15813]

Osmar Bernardes Júnior My body weight times 20 is 2600 calories a day and sometimes I already feel like I have to throw up from eating or drinking so much milk. I don't see how I can possibly eat 5000 a day.

[@osmarbernardesjunior2078]

130 lbs or 130kg? How old are you?

[@osmarbernardesjunior2078]

2000 calories are not enough. If you are an underweigth person, you have to eat a lot more. 5000, 8 meals, 9 meals a day. Supplementation (whey+dextrose+bcaa post-workout, the best). Whey in the morning (shake with peanut butter, fruit, oat). Some eggs. etc etc

[@JohnWL]

"I know everything there is to know about strength training." Yikes.

[@JohnWL]

@wnypaisan27 Anyone that is an expert in a topic does not speak with these absolutes. You can never know everything about a topic. Especially something as complex as manipulating human physiology.

[@JohnWL]

@wnypaisan27 So it is just as easy to improve a lifters' day one squat as it is a professional powerlifter's squat. There are no more coaching techniques, programs, training modalities, nutritional needs, and recovery methods that he could learn about that could be beneficial to someone that he doesn't already know? That is all included in Strength and conditioning which he implied he knew all he needed to know.

[@JohnWL]

@wnypaisan27 What I am saying is that training someone to get maximally strong is outside of normal human physiology. It is not simple. It's simple when you're a novice. You would need to actually learn about nutrition, sleep, recovery, arousal, human psychology, alternate programming methods etc. The fact that you pointed out he does not know about that stuff shows he has more to learn. Rip is constantly floating between talking about training a novice and training advanced trainees. His default defense is saying that his goal is to train novices, while also trying to purport that he knows everything about training advanced and intermediate athletes too. Also, enlighten me... Why am I taking it "out of context"? I do not believe it is out of context at all. He outlined how strength training is insanely simple, then flippantly disregards all of exercise science using one cherry picked study, and then says there is nothing valuable for him to learn towards the goal of training someone to make them stronger. It is hard to take that out of context when talking about strength training that broadly.