September 22, 2025
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On Beginning Energy
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Firearms –
Rip and Rusty sit down to speak about firearms, and never your run-of-the-mill ones both. -
Starting Strongman by Jack Bissett –
Strongman competitors is a quickly rising sport within the power world. As somebody who has quite a lot of love for strongman, I assumed I’d attempt to provide a bit information for anybody desirous about having a go… -
Do You Need Lifters? –
Completely. Sneakers are an indispensable instrument for coaching as a result of elevated stability means that you can raise extra weight, apply extra stress, and extra successfully develop whole-body power. Rip talks about lifting shoe design, from stacked leather-based heels to metatarsal strap and the whole lot in between. -
The Iron Bug by Jim Metal –
The place I grew up in Maryland, again within the ’70s and ’80s, soccer and basketball had been king, and baseball was an afterthought, one thing you performed when it wasn’t soccer or basketball season… -
The Coachable Client by Diego Socolinsky –
A number of weeks in the past I used to be working with a brand new shopper at FiveX3 Coaching. It was his second or third coaching session, and we had been having a bit friction about programming and weight choice… - Weekend Archives:
Wanna Bet? by Invoice Starr –
Once I moved from Marion, Indiana, to York in late February of 1966, to take over the place of assistant editor of Energy & Well being to work with the managing editor, Tommy Suggs… - Weekend Archives:
Recovery and Growth by Mark Rippetoe –
Judging from my e-mail and the posts on my Q&A board, most of you guys are consultants at dropping bodyfat or sustaining low bodyfat. However you appear to have misplaced your understanding…
Within the Trenches
End up somebody who appears at you the best way Harika Bandi’s husband, Anvesh, admires her heat up for deadlift at Starting Strength Atlanta. [photo courtesy of Starting Strength Atlanta]
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Better of the Week
HLM top set/back off set question
judoka89
Concerning an HLM the place straight units start to stall otherwise you start utilizing variations for the principle lifts, is it doable to start utilizing high set/again off set strategy on the sunshine days/medium days? Or will this strategy burn out slightly shortly?
Instance:
Monday:
Squat 1×3, 2×5-8
Bench 1×3, 2×5
Wednesday:
Press 1×3, 2×5-8
Deadlift 1×5, 1×8
Friday:
Incline bench: 1×3, 2×5-8
Paused Squat: 1×3, 2×5
Satch12879
There’s a downside someplace if you must mod the sunshine/medium day lifts.
Additionally, you are lacking a squat day right here. It is HLM for the motion, not the full exercise.
Maybach
Should you’re doing units which can be heavy sufficient you’ll be able to’t do multiple in your medium days, then it is too heavy. You are making an attempt to set PRs on the heavy day: your medium days are simply “no matter you are able to do” for the prescribed quantity. Simply repeat weights or reset, if you must.
JamesFazz
I believe it’s effective to implement a high set in your heavy day however as Satch12879 says, one thing has gone incorrect on the sunshine and medium day if you want to implement modifications to get by way of the day.
For what it’s price, I would like to scale back quantity to maintain load rising slightly than implementing some other change. For instance within the Squat, if the heavy day begins at 5×5 then the sunshine day will probably be 5×3 at 80% and medium day 5×3 at 90%. When the heavy day will get too onerous, cut back quantity to 3×5 (5 units of three reps) after which ultimately 1 x 5 (5 singles). The opposite days ought to be capable of improve week to week for someday but when the sunshine day stops feeling ‘mild’ I might go to 3×3 and the medium day would most likely be an excellent candidate for high set plus back-off set.
Better of the Discussion board
Old myths
tnumrych
Simply once you suppose that the opinions on power coaching have modified a coach on the professional stage says one thing like this:
“‘I do not need you getting too jacked-up, Colin.’ I would like some velocity, quickness, not simply (flexing chest his muscle tissue).”
This is not fairly just like the previous days when Vince Lombardi and different coaches would warn gamers to not raise weights within the offseason. Harbaugh simply needs Kaepernick to work on flexibility greater than flexing.”
Hyperlink to story: Jim Harbaugh to Colin Kaepernick: Go easy on weights
I assume these previous myths about power coaching simply do not die.
Mark Rippetoe
Not when Professionals refuse to teach themselves previous mythology.
stronger
Does not it simply suck once you get so sturdy that you’re too highly effective to play a power sport? That is the very last thing you need!
Thomas Jones
We won’t inform from the article, and it may very well be that Harbaugh is responsible of old fashioned prejudices, however is there something to the chance that extra higher physique muscle mass would possibly cut back arm velocity for functions of the throwing movement?
Mark Rippetoe
I’m embarrassed for you. Postulate a mechanism.
MattJ.D.
clearly if one benches an excessive amount of weight they’ll develop into a hulking mass and lose all flexibility of their shoulders
why do suppose baseball pitchers do not do overhead work Rip…come on
its not like weightlifters have nice overhead power together with nice mobility or something…you do not have to have nice shoulder flexibility to do a snatch
*sarcasm off*
