July 07, 2025
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On Beginning Power
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Digital Health & Staying Safe Online –
What do that you must learn about protecting your children – and your self – secure on the web? Ben Gillenwater, the Household IT Man, returns to the present to debate how one can acknowledge and counter the addictive potential and different risks of the digital world. -
But What About My Arms? by Steve Ross –
It occurs at my health club like clockwork. Just a few weeks into coaching, proper across the time squats begin feeling heavy and the honeymoon section of the linear development begins to fade… -
The Barbell Shrug –
Rip and Stormi reveal using the barbell shrug for many who have developed their deadlift energy, however want an explosive, overload motion to drive additional progress as a late intermediate or superior lifter. -
The Moment Model: First Principles by Michael Jones –
I hear it from the bros on a regular basis. I additionally hear it from aspiring coaches. “The entrance squat is quad-dominant.” There may be additionally its cousin coming from barbell fans, “We use the low-bar squat method as a result of…” -
Fixing Your Squat Set Up – Stop Overextending Your Low Back –
Beginning Power Coach Nick Delgadillo helps you determine the right arrange to your again within the squat. - Weekend Archives:
Hauntological Corrective Exercise by Max Blochowiak –
Jacques Derrida noticed the current as inexorably tied to the previous and future. It’s by no means merely this second, however an amalgam of the three. He known as this hauntology… - Weekend Archives:
The Blind Lead the Willing by Mark Rippetoe –
After I first began within the health enterprise in 1978, I labored on the Spa Worldwide and Nautilus Coaching middle in Parker Sq.. I had been playing around within the outdated weight room at Midwestern…
Within the Trenches
By way of her consistency and quiet coachability, Ada Usmani achieves new PRs like this deadlift each exercise of her novice linear development at Starting Strength Atlanta. [photo courtesy of Tomczak]
Ryan Polis engaged on his Press as he strikes by means of the NLP on a busy Saturday morning at Starting Strength Columbus. [photo courtesy of Paul Jackson]
Starting Strength Boston coaches took barbells exterior without cost deadlift instruction at a neighborhood 4th of July competition. Independence Day is the proper time to find out how energy makes you tougher to kill and extra helpful normally. [photo courtesy of Arthur Frontczak]
Get Concerned
Better of the Week
Joe Rogan is introduced to Starting Strength, GOMAD and Rip on the latest episode
Mark Rippetoe
I noticed that. I stay accessible to appropriate the errors established by the distinguished visitor Amjad Masad.
Yngvi
Sorry Rip, even in case you go on Rogan, I do not suppose will probably be sufficient to appropriate the error that you simply and Roger Estep are the identical particular person.
Better of the Discussion board
How can I help my Grandmother?
Isaac Medina
I just lately simply began coaching my Nana on the health club. She’s actually beat up and desires to reduce weight, have extra power, repair her low again ache, and be capable of sustain with my child (her grandson).
She’s 5’2″, 63 years outdated, and possibly ~170-180 lbs. She’s bent over when she walks due to her again ache (her husband says it seems like she’s choosing piñon up off the bottom when she walks). She had a double knee alternative a few yr in the past and her knees are wonderful (no ache). She has quite a lot of accidents and I am uncertain of how one can assist her out with higher physique energy.
She can’t get her left arm straight overhead (it is about 20-25 levels relative to her backbone when the ROM stops), so I’ve had points with serving to her press. We have been working with a broomstick in the meanwhile.
She’s leg urgent in the meanwhile. These are going wonderful. 60lbs for 3 units of 10.
She will deadlift off of 1.5″ blocks. Her most up-to-date DL was 53×5.
She’s additionally doing lat pulls and cardio for 20-30 minutes 5x/week.
My query is what can I do to assist her together with her urgent actions? I have not tried bench press together with her but, however I am hesitant to take action together with her simply due to her shoulder flexibility. Have you ever encountered any individuals with dangerous shoulders like this and what did you do to assist them?
Mark Rippetoe
When she lat pulls, do her arms get vertical to the shoulders on the high?
Isaac Medina
Oddly sufficient, sure. Not completely vertical, however extra vertical than when she stands and raises then up.
Mark Rippetoe
So in rigidity the ROM is definitely there, she simply lacks the energy and stability to press up into it. Have her begin by urgent the stick up the entrance of the rack, and work on the ROM utilizing that as a information.
