Starting Strength Radio

Rip answers questions from Starting Strength Network subscribers and fans.

02:52 Comments from the Haters!

13:39 Sore heel after pushing the sled

21:48 Knee cave

25:07 How to set up for a rack pull

30:17 Will stronger people get tired faster?

46:01 Blood pressure guidelines

54:51 How much more should your deadlift be than your squat?

59:46 Why do traps get bigger?

1:03:18 The Army wants me weak

1:08:58 Bar path on the press

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

SS Colorado Springs Gym Owner, JD, joins Ray on the podcast to discuss his role as a military leader, his motivation for opening a gym, recovering from a rooftop fall with strength training, and squatting 500 lb in his 40s.

01:25 - JD's squat PR with no proof

03:29 - Role in the military

08:38 - Motivation for opening Starting Strength Colorado Springs...you fell off a roof?

15:03 - Back to Starting Strength

17:29 - When did you start hurting less?

19:00 - Other considerations than opening a Starting Strength Gym

25:31 - JD's role in the military and the skills needed

29:49 - Philosophical viewpoints coming from the military

32:59 - Plan for hiring

39:17 - How to contact JD

41:42 - Goals for the next few years

46:08 - We will grow as slowly as we need to

49:21 - Apprenticeship in Orlando

57:40 - Last day in the Army

Rip and Dr. Malcolm Kendrick discuss statins, accusations of harm caused by "Statin Deniers," and Dr. Kendrick's libel suit against media companies.

00:39 Malcolm Kendrick/News attacks

11:56 Studies prove cholesterol doesn’t kill

18:25 Ancel Keys and data suppression

29:14 Why cholesterol is important

37:25 When does it become dangerous?

47:57 Cholesterol in Men and Women

55:06 Thoughts on doctors

Rip answers questions live from Starting Strength fans.

01:57 Comments from the Haters!

09:38 Hernia surgery

20:47 Where is Rusty?

21:35 The feds and the constitution

38:41 More reps for diabetics

52:20 Groin pull and squats

1:00:17 Trying to lose weight by swimming

1:05:28 Deviated septum tips

1:12:55 A new Jew/Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Everyone's favorite guest, Nick, joins Ray on the podcast today to discuss how popular culture's conception of fitness is exactly backwards. Listen and nod in agreement, or angrily share your misunderstandings in the comments.

01:57 - Argument for Starting Strength

05:33 - Adaptions are specific to the stress that you apply

08:03 - How do adaptations carry over into life?

09:58 - Guiding people through the most optimal way to improve performance

17:02 - Where should you spend your time and energy to benefit everything else?

18:48 - People have preconceptions

21:00 - Process-oriented solution to a common misconception

32:09 - High levels of conditioning are specific to the activity that you're doing

36:42 - Most people have their priorities backward

45:08 - Progress that can be measured

47:53 - We are selling improved capability

56:55 - Two types of coaches that aren't ideal

58:54 - How to guide clients when things get hard

01:05:54 - Starting Strength Gyms is getting a new website

Rip answers questions from Starting Strength Network subscribers and fans.

02:33 Comments from the Haters!

16:35 Join the Network

18:54 Chiropractic a scam

28:21 Coaching your husband

34:11 Hurt my shoulder deadlifting

37:09 Wife has bad knees…squat?

41:31 Ice baths

48:17 Press programming

56:03 Plates face in on deadlift

57:23 Feeding beef differently and taste

Rip discusses what is and is not strength training along with a new and novel way to look at the process of getting stronger.

00:58 Today’s topic

02:48 Comments from the Haters!

20:24 What is training?

29:05 Everything is about force production

35:05 Not everything is strength training

43:21 Stress must be accumulative

45:34 Six movement patterns

52:44 Doing things optimally

59:26 Olympic lifting is not strength training

1:07:02 Training and practice

1:12:28 Closing

Carl Case invited Ray to join him for a discussion on the Local Business Hacks podcast where Carl interview fitness industry leaders to discuss their keys to success. To save you a click, we've re-posted the episode here. Interested in hearing how Ray communicates Starting Strength Gyms to the uninitiated? Listen in. Spoiler: Carl became a Starting Strength Gyms Online Coaching client immediately after the interview was recorded. At 6'4", Carl needs to be at least 260lbs. We'll get him there, with a 500lb+ deadlift, in 18-months or less - as long as he sticks to the program.

01:53 - Ray's business background

03:50 - Coming across Starting Strength

06:29 - How to make Starting Strength more accessible to more people

11:50 - How can the world get involved with Starting Strength Gyms?

15:55 - How to get connected with Ray

18:24 - Think big and go for it

22:12 - Hire Slowly. Fire quickly.

26:21 - Are you a right fit for Starting Strength Gyms?

30:37 - What historical figure would you have dinner with?

31:31 - Empowering the right people to make decisions

39:01 - Ray's current top books and podcasts

40:57 - Starting Strength Radio

41:33 - Lex Fridman

42:10 - Negative and positive character traits

Rip answers questions from Starting Strength Network subscribers and fans.

02:23 Comments from the Haters!

13:14 Steve shouldn’t gain weight

24:40 Advice on coaching my wife

36:02 Jodie wants to lose weight

52:13 Training with a hard schedule

1:00:23 Female clients won't gain weight

1:06:31 Jodie’s brother calls

1:09:25 Training and new to TRT

1:16:46 SSC Andrew Lewis calls in

1:25:05 My wife likes twinks