July 21, 2025
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On Beginning Power
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Back, Bench, and Big Man Programming –
Rip solutions questions reside from Beginning Power Community subscribers and followers. -
When You Have Nothing Left – Hold the Line by Steve Ross –
Individuals discuss coaching prefer it’s nearly getting stronger, trying higher, chasing numbers. And typically, particularly at first, it’s. However in the event you’ve been doing it lengthy sufficient… -
How to Hold the Bar Up –
The grip for urgent actions and receiving the bar within the snatch and clear and jerk have some issues in widespread, however will not be the identical. Beginning Power Coach stef bradford covers what’s totally different and why. -
Choices and Excuses – Motivation and Willpower by James Collinge –
I’ve had a shit week: working my very own enterprise, attempting to suit 12 hours of labor into 5-hour days, my family has had three illness bugs in 2 weeks, two youngsters to maintain… -
Hips Rising Early in the Deadlift by Mia Inman –
At first of the deadlift the lifter is taught to provoke the pull by extending the knees – “cued” to push the ground away. This elicits a powerful contraction of the quadriceps… - Weekend Archives:
Performance Shooting and Strength by Justin Nazaroff –
From a sensible standpoint, as of 2019, there are almost 20 million individuals in the US with a license to hold a hid pistol. Nonetheless, selecting to hold a weapon in public… - Weekend Archives:
The Minimum Effective Dose of Training by Mark Rippetoe –
Like every remedy that has the facility to change physiology, barbell coaching should be administered with consideration paid to dosing – the quantity and the schedule. It is damned exhausting to kill your self with barbell coaching…
Within the Trenches
Rip coaches Mel by way of her remaining set of squats on the Beginning Power Seminar held at WFAC final weekend. [photo courtesy of stef bradford]
TFW your on-line coach takes you thru a heavy set of 5 on the deadlift platform on the Beginning Power Seminar. [photo courtesy of stef bradford]
Phil Meggers provides the ultimate lecture of the seminar – Programming – Sunday afternoon in Wichita Falls. [photo courtesy of stef bradford]
Logan squats a brand new PR of 315lb for five reps at Starting Strength Boston. He’s on his approach to a 405lb squat. [photo courtesy of Michael Shammas]
Get Concerned
Better of the Week
Training in the heat
moose365
I’ve moved to Georgia and it is going to be my first time coaching in 90+ warmth. I learn this 2010 article on the web site (Training in the Heat | Bill Starr).
Other than coaching earlier/later within the day and ingesting a fuckton of water, do you’ve gotten any explicit recommendation on coaching in these situations?
Mark Rippetoe
Get an electrical fan.
Jason Donaldson
Be sure to’re getting not simply taking in water all through the day, but additionally consuming salt.
Jenni
Imma stick my nostril in right here.
The benefit of early morning and late night work is nearly all simply the shortage of direct daylight. Do not be fooled. We get midnight temps within the mid 80s. You continue to must play by the foundations. It isn’t simply hydration. It is electrolytes too. Spend money on some stable electrolyte model. Not Gatorade and never that pickle shit the normies drink. Watch out about an excessive amount of water directly. It can make you puke particularly if it is ice water. In summer season, I am going instantly to the pool put up exercise. It sucks all the warmth and soreness out of the muscle mass. Not a number of gyms with out ac however by no means underestimate the worth of some dry ice in entrance of a fan. We used to get it for a pair bucks for an ice chest full, simply use tongs. And cotton. Cotton tshirts, cotton socks, cotton towels. No polyester otherwise you’re simply going to really feel hotter and stickier. Simply keep in mind, our ancestors did this on a regular basis, with no lodging.
Better of the Discussion board
Halting Deadlifts
MAD9692
A few month and a half in the past I began doing them each different week such as you suggest them to be programmed and holy shit are they exhausting.
Why the fuck do my lats will get so sore from them? The soreness is just about rapid…a lot in order that doing pull-ups afterwards is now not an choice.
The subsequent day I am sore as hell. I’ve finished them thrice in complete over a 6 week span and every-time they fuck me up.
The Rack Pulls and Cleans I alternate them with do not make me sore. Simply the Haltings.
The set of 8 isn’t any fucking joke both. By the point you get previous rep 5 you simply cant fucking breathe.
Who the hell got here up with these.
Mark Rippetoe
Starr. They’re why I did not must do chins for the primary 20 years of my coaching.
MAD9692
Brutal.
I’m wondering why nobody else recommends them.
Kinda makes rows appear retarded.
