March 03, 2025
On Beginning Power
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Training Stages and Age –
Rip discusses how programming adjustments as energy accumulates on account of coaching and what features range when trainees begin at totally different ages. -
How to Approach Training for the Elderly by Mark Rippetoe –
After all I am kidding, as a result of should you’re coaching you are probably not aged, within the sense that the federal government makes use of the time period for Medicare Recipients and folks on 13 prescriptions. Coaching retains this from occurring… -
Halting Deadlifts: Targeting the Start of the Pull –
Rip explains the aim and technical features of the halting deadlift, a heavy, partial used to load the pull off the ground, stressing the power to carry the again in extension. Intermediate and superior lifters pair this raise with the rack pull to productively prepare the complete vary of movement of the deadlift. -
Balance in the Press: You Have to Lay Back by Andrew Lewis –
Urgent heavy requires mid-foot stability and a pristine bar path. An individual is in stability when the middle of mass is inside the bottom of assist. It would not should be centered. He could possibly be on his toes or heels or within the center… -
Becoming More Coachable by Michael Jones –
In many of the typical kung-fu motion pictures the trope of the master-disciple relationship recurs to virtually the extent of cliche. However all cliches are cliches for a cause: there’s a kernel of reality to them. This explicit one… - Weekend Archives:
The Truth by Jim Metal –
I’m a university energy coach, and I’m struggling. I’m fighting the state of energy coaching immediately. Whether or not it’s coaching athletes or coaching the overall inhabitants, there are a couple of fundamental tenets… - Weekend Archives:
Losing Bodyfat or Gaining Muscle Mass: Which is More Important? by Mark Rippetoe –
Muscle mass contains between 30 and 50 % of your physique’s whole weight – the extra the higher. Composed of greater than 650 muscle groups, it’s the major consumer of energy within the lively human physique…
Within the Trenches
Final weekend, Raj competed on the Powerlifting Singapore Mixed Nationals 2025 within the Masters 3, 93kg class. He was competing within the Masters 3 class for the primary time and placed on an amazing efficiency, setting the deadlift nationwide file within the course of. He completed with a 167.5kg Squat, 112.5kg Bench, and 217.5kg Deadlift. [photo courtesy of Shaun Pang]
70-year-old Anna benches 132.5 for a single and deadlifts 260 for a triple as she traines underneath Greg Hermann at Traditional Strength in Oklahoma Metropolis. [photo courtesy of Trad Strength]
Luz nails this break up jerk (following an equally strong break up clear) early Friday morning at Testify Strength & Conditioning in Omaha, NE. [photo courtesy of PHil Meggers]
Dean, standing 6’8″, buries his ultimate working set of squats underneath the watchful eye of coach Sam Krapf at our Salt Lake Metropolis Squat and Deadlift Camp. The bar’s lengthy journey with every rep mirrors his personal lengthy journey from Denver to attend the camp. [photo courtesy of Jordan Hansen]
Jared powers via his final deadlift set throughout the Salt Lake Metropolis Squat and Deadlift Camp led by Sam Krapf. Together with his new discovered pulling mechanics and energy, bucking bales on his homestead in Vernal, Utah might be no challenge. [photo courtesy of Jordan Hansen]
At Starting Strength Atlanta, apprentice Dave Tomczak instructs Suzanne Warshaw on the important significance of the barbell being instantly over the midfoot stability level within the deadlift setup. [photo courtesy of Adam Martin]
Get Concerned
Better of the Week
US FDA issues labeling changes for testosterone products
Mark Rippetoe
A vital improvement: US FDA issues labeling changes for testosterone products
Outcomes from the trial concluded there was no enhance within the danger of opposed cardiovascular outcomes in males utilizing testosterone for hypogonadism. The company stated it’s recommending including outcomes from the trial to the labeling in all testosterone merchandise, retaining the “limitation of use” terminology for age-related hypogonadism whereas eradicating language associated to an elevated danger of opposed cardiovascular outcomes.
Dalan
All we now have to do now could be to get medical doctors to learn labels.
Is Wittmer or Dr Nichols nonetheless the SS really useful medical doctors, btw?
Better of the Discussion board
Sport specificity and strength
SS-FZ
In PPST, the game specificity part mentions that we use the barbell actions to develop energy, and energy might be ‘practised’ within the sport that the trainee chooses.
If energy is the power to provide drive in opposition to an exterior resistance, and if we use the barbell lifts to get stronger, then does it comply with that the extra weight that somebody can do within the barbell lifts the stronger they’re?
In case you have a power-lifter who’s simply completed some squat peaking protocol, and you’ve got a bodybuilder who squats solely ONCE a month. Their numbers are:
Energy-lifter: Squat – 205kg
Bodybuilder: Squat – 200kg
Is the power-lifter actually stronger than the bodybuilder on this case? I imply if each have been to ditch the squat rack and go do some leg extensions/leg press/leg curl (some motion that neither of them has practised earlier than) who do you suppose may do probably the most weight on these workout routines? who could be “stronger”? May it’s that the bodybuilder is simply ‘out of shape’ in his squats — and if have been to extend his squat frequency he may simply surpass 205kg (with out gaining muscle mass)?
The query is that this: How do you separate the follow of a barbell motion from the energy acquired utilizing that motion if the motion is getting used as a take a look at for energy?
Maybe muscle cross sectional space (over all the physique) is an effective proxy for the ‘energy’ of a person — all different issues being equal (CNS effectivity). You have definitely talked about your self that muscle mass and energy are inseparable. Do you suppose it is a higher ‘gauge’ for energy?
Mark Rippetoe
I’ve learn this bolded query 3 occasions, which is my restrict, and I do not perceive it. You guys be at liberty to interpret.
Will Morris
I would assume he’s asking if using an train that builds energy as a take a look at of energy leads to a practice-effect that will artificially make a extra practiced trainee “stronger” at one cut-off date than somebody who could also be stronger however by no means performs that train…..
The general query, I suppose, could possibly be restated as such: if Michael Jordan is the best basketball participant ever, may a speculation exist that a greater basketball participant did exist however did not play basketball….
Dalton Clark
I imagine he’s saying you could’t say the powerlifter is stronger as a result of he has educated the ability of squatting whereas the bodybuilder solely practices it as soon as a month – in his instance.
JohnStrangeway
I imagine SS-FZ is asking; is a bodybuilder who squats as soon as a month, thought of stronger than a powerlifter at across the similar max who trains the squat extra typically?
Thus stronger as a result of he places much less work in to get the identical squat weight.
In actuality I might say are the identical energy (assuming every part else like body weight weight is equal)…. for now…
You would need to assume earlier than the 205kg peak the powerlifters max was under 205kg, so after his subsequent peak he might be lifting greater than 205kg If the bodybuilder is just squatting as soon as a month the PL will surpass him within the squat as a result of he’s “coaching the squat.” The bodybuilder is not going to make the identical progress except the PL is closing in on his potential and the BB is a novice+.
Simply ships passing within the night time lol
Now that I give it some thought, the PL is stronger, he did 205kg. At a meet they dont ask you the way typically you prepare, you rating what you raise.
Additionally relies on the group, if the group bans PET (efficiency enhancing coaching) the powerlifter might be disqualified for dishonest. Makes me sick, squatting each week to get higher at it, disgusting.
Barry Charles
He’s asking the way you separate follow of the game from energy coaching if energy is the game, e.g. powerlifting.
What do I win?
Mark Rippetoe
My gratitude.
