August 04, 2025
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Barbell Training and Personal Trainers –
In case your private coach shouldn’t be displaying you tips on how to do the barbell workouts, you aren’t getting essentially the most worth on your cash or the effort and time you’re spending within the fitness center. Rip explains how the Beginning Energy mannequin could be built-in for the perfect outcomes. -
You’re Not Special. You’re Just Weak by Steve Ross –
Look, what I’m about to say goes towards each molecule of Canadian maple syrup operating by my veins. It pains me as a result of I’d reasonably apologize, hand you a double-double with a Nanaimo bar, and… -
Starting Strength Does The Massenomics –
Rusty and Stormi doc their expertise on the third annual Massenomics: Elevate Laborious Reside Simple meet. What a trip! -
Press Singles by Carl Raghavan –
The compressed Texas Methodology is one in every of my favourite methods to maneuver lifters into intermediate programming – particularly when their press and bench begin needing extra frequency, however… -
Putting on Your Belt –
Mark Rippetoe talks concerning the totally different sorts of belts you ought to be utilizing and Chase demonstrates tips on how to use the ability rack to place the belt on. - Weekend Archives:
How Did You Become a Personal Trainer? by Carl Raghavan –
I get this query rather a lot. What did you do? How do I turn out to be a private coach or a coach? After all, they don’t normally wish to hear the reality. This query is code for… - Weekend Archives:
Why You Should Not Be Running by Mark Rippetoe –
In case you are a aggressive distance runner or bike owner who’s critical about your sport, this text has not been written for you. This extremely informative dialogue is meant for these individuals…
Within the Trenches

Ray is a founding member of Starting Strength Boston and nonetheless setting PRs in his late 50s. Right here he’s locking out a single 167.5lb. on the press after 4 years of coaching. [photo courtesy of Stephen Babbitt]

Wait…did her coach cue, “Hips, then press,” or “Grin, then press”? Lindsey Nelson exhibits Starting Strength Atlanta that so long as you preserve your Valsalva maneuver, you may smile mid-rep. [photo courtesy of Adam Martin]

With an illustration of the deadlift beginning place looming behind him, Manish Gupta units knees out into elbows, squeezes chest up, and prepares to push the ground of Starting Strength Atlanta away along with his ft. [photo courtesy of Adam Martin]
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georgeramirez
That could be a surprisingly undistorted illustration of what you guys do within the mom of all mainstream retailers. Even the feedback are vastly superior to what they might have been 10 years in the past.
Was it simply luck to attract a good reporter or did Sully handle some kind of magic in serving to to form the story?
Curious to see what impression this may have – appears a bit like Rip getting Joe to return his calls – possibly that is subsequent?
Anyway, implausible job to Sully for constructing such a sound and significant observe and no matter it was that led to this fairly first rate write-up on a ginormous platform.
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Are we a “fitness trend”?
topcraig
To answer within the affirmative would point out that somebody has ruined their physique. I suppose we’d have to determine what number of Beginning Energy practioners have ruined their our bodies.
Alexander Dargatz
Nicely, we ought to be.Rational energy coaching is the bottom for health in spite of everything.
I do not understand how, the place or why you discover these shitty articles on a regular basis, Rip. I hope on your sanity you do not search the online for them.
This one is very hilarious, in a tragic method. Or reasonably particularly unhappy, in a hilarious method.
Scaldrew
Not even shut.
The considering on this article is weird. There’s the proper statement that there are actually method too many health traits and gimmicks, however then they suggest doing a little bit of all of it. As if a counterbalance to the rise in extremes is to all of them a little bit bit. “Dysfunction: X, corrective train: Y”. In case your health development is inflicting dysfunction, possibly uh possibly cease doing the health development. Only a thought.
Loopy reasoning. Loopy.
Btw, a good friend of mine began a pole-dancing membership, and I’m A-OK with that.
So #notall, I suppose.