Rip talks about how other fitness programs want you to focus on aesthetics and training muscle groups. Machines cannot produce enough systemic stress for growth.

Performance-based training works better for aesthetics than training separate muscle groups on machines. The body works as a system of levers powered by contractile motors, “muscles.” None of the muscles function in isolation from the others.

01:44 Comments from the Haters!

13:12 Starting Strength and aesthetics

20:13 We aren’t bodybuilders, but the body gets built

25:23 How to get bigger muscles

31:12 Machines and barbells are not the same

39:24 Getting bigger muscles is a side effect of getting strong

47:12 Machines can’t make you gain weight

52:14 People that train with machines

56:34 Your health