Starting Strength Radio

Rip answers questions from Starting Strength Network subscribers and fans.

13:06 Haters

24:51 Starting As A Gym Owner

32:51 Heating A Garage Gym

36:42 Knees In The Squat

40:00 High Glycolytic Activity Hurts Strength

41:52 What’s The Future Of The U.S.

57:38 A Group Classes Possible For Starting Strength

1:00:45 Where Are The Hats?

1:02:00 The Road Warrior

01:05:29 Fathers Back Pain And Strength

01:13:54 Can’t Bench Due To Brain Surgery

01:17:59 Off-Grid Home

Rip and Dr. Joseph Busch discuss PSA, prostate needle biopsy, and better ways to diagnose and treat prostate issues.

1:01 Today's guest

3:31 PSA and blind Biopsy

12:30 Reasons PSA goes up

17:09 BPH And Gleason score

26:13 Aggressive prostate cancer

38:30 The MRI

40:22 The needle biopsy

47:26 Diagnosis of BPH in the absence of high Gleason tumor

Ray and Ben Gillenwater discuss some of the tech used inside the Starting Strength Gyms and their reasoning behind using it.

00:00 - Intro

0:04:05 - What has Starting Strength done for you

0:09:49 - Investing in technology

0:11:25 - Three applications

0:17:50 - Mistakes in software causing financial issues in companies

0:23:03 - IT guy to business tech expert

0:26:46 - Every company is a technology company

0:31:02 - Business philosophy

0:36:15 - Two buckets

0:39:41 - Yelp

0:44:06 - Tech at the gyms

0:48:49 - Doing something for yourself

0:56:30 - Lighting in the gyms

1:05:20 - Case Studies

Rip answers questions from Starting Strength Network subscribers and fans.

2:30 Haters

15:28 Injury After Powerlifting Meet

25:10 TRT For Women

37:10 Resting Heart Rate And TRT

50:31 Can I Do Starting Strength Alone?

58:05 Failing On Halting Deadlifts And Rack Pulls

1:09:42 Can’t Get In Low Bar

1:17:43 Afraid Of Being Hurt From Competing/Goals

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick and Rip discuss cholesterol, the medical establishment conventional wisdom on its role in heart disease, and why the medical consensus is wrong.

1:44 Touching On Covid

10:30 Heart Disease

14:27 Statistics Manipulation

27:12 Manufacturing Things To Treat

34:02 Over-Prescribing

49:34 Blind Trust

50:21 The “Experts”

58:44 Cholesterol

1:09:27 Plaques

A detailed explanation of the NLP, how to progress each lift, and how to avoid common errors to get as strong as possible as quickly as possible. Hosted by Ray Gillenwater, SSC, Co-Founder of Starting Strength Gyms with Nick Delgadillo, SSC, Head of Gym Operations.

Rip discusses why learning an unfamiliar movement pattern is difficult, the role of the coach in this process, and how ingrained movement patterns work against efficiency in barbell training.

3:09 Haters

13:27 The Main Topics

21:52 Lizard Brain? Learned Movements? Preconceived Notions?

26:40 Accumulating Correct Reps

28:40 How To Fix errors

32:19 Teaching And Cueing

34:55 Teaching And Coaching

38:13 Making A Good Coach

40:56 Resorting To Errors/Knees In Squat And Deadlift

46:01 Bad Coaching/Lifting Efficiency

50:34 Why We Teach The Same Things

Rip answers questions from Starting Strength Network subscribers and fans.

4:11 Comments from the haters

25:24 Rip on arm wrestling

31:02 Elbow pain during press

32:55 Deadlift mechanics

36:22 Rip and his memories on the Vietnam war

41:01 How to train when starting BJJ

42:30 Strongman practice

46:45 Finding a doctor

55:21 Mixed grip deadlift

1:06:13 Leaving a communist state for Texas

1:09:33 Training cycles and the Olympics

1:11:42 Rip playing the trumpet

1:14:14 Will sociopaths rule?

1:19:41 Missed training/missed recovery

Rip and Ray Gillenwater discuss the labor market, employment, and the effect of bureaucracy on the relationship between employees and their employers.

4:34 The Labor Market

9:42 Fauci Speaks For Science

17:07 Iron Law

25:25 Being Paid For Zero Production

37:09 Adopting And Enforcing Government Rules

43:55 It’s Engaging You

55:21 The Government Is Not Your Parent

1:05:45 Doing Hard Things Now

1:09:24 We Don’t Know What It’s Like To Be Without

1:23:47 Something Is Going On

Rip talks about how consistency with the basics is the foundation of effective processes.

4:04 Comments from the haters

12:17 Some current events

19:16 Compliance in training

23:55 Most effective processes are not complicated

34:17 We are concerned with the average person

41:23 Some things that are hard are not productive

43:00 Your perception is not relevant

49:23 Focus on the goal