April 28, 2025
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On Beginning Power
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Tariffs, Trade, and Tension –
Karl Denninger returns to the podcast to debate the prices and advantages of present and previous financial actions and their ramifications. -
Cueing vs. Instruction vs. Yelling by Steve Ross –
Stroll into most business gyms and also you’re prone to see a coach standing subsequent to their shopper, usually with their cellphone in hand, shouting issues like, “C’mon, 3 extra!” or “You bought this!” The power is… -
How to Make a Whiskey Cocktail –
Rip reveals you easy methods to make a scrumptious drink with simply two components, a whiskey cocktail. -
The Most Important Lift of My Life, Or How To Answer the Question “Strong Enough?” by Tom Bailey –
I spend plenty of time, maybe means an excessive amount of time, trying to reply the necessary query posed by Coach Rippetoe: Am I robust sufficient? Most 52-year-old males similar to myself… -
Five Important Things by Jim Metal –
Forty-one years in the past, I lifted my first weights on a Common machine in Mr. Mcclung’s class at Buck Lodge Junior Excessive College. I used to be a giant child however weak, and lifting… - Weekend Archives:
Critical Technique Elements – Part 1: The Squat by Andrew Lewis –
Barbell coaching is comprised totally of pure human motion. Which means the workouts used are how human physiology and anatomy are supposed for use. The rotator cuff is… - Weekend Archives:
A New Definition for Strength Training by Mark Rippetoe –
What precisely is “energy coaching”? This can be a reputable query, as a result of the web appears to suppose that something extra strenuous than billiards will be known as Power Coaching…
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Tom Bailey: Are You Strong Enough?
TommyGun
Rip, glad you get pleasure from this text. It was written with gratitude to you, for what I realized from you in regards to the significance of energy. The issues I realized from the e book and the coaching program proceed to learn me and my family members in some ways.
Time passes on since I wrote that article…my Dad handed (all good) and I held his hand as he drew his snicker breath, now my children are in faculty, and I’m nonetheless coaching, or at the very least trying to be constant. (and sure, each children are nursing majors – an academically demanding main with sensible software).
I can nonetheless go toe to toe with my 20 12 months outdated son in a bodily recreation of 1 on one basketball, and I positive as hell can kick the ass of my daughter’s boyfriend.
Thanks Rip. I actually need to get down there quickly for a seminar.
JJ23
Tom, thanks for sharing this glorious story.
Your elevator rides remind me of why I began coaching. The Mrs. – in a time shortly after the start of our oldest and in a state of probably emotional imbalance said “sometime we’ll put him down and by no means choose him up once more” . Being naturally defiant, I stated ” oh yah?”.
Then I discovered beginning energy. We now do “hang around” each evening earlier than bathtub, which is identical as elevator.
Your story about your dad is touching and equally necessary, your efforts are working to make sure your children will not be getting an identical name till you are a lot older. I name {that a} win.
Jason Donaldson
I am glad to see the repost – I like this one, Tom. Thanks for writing it. I do know you say it is all good, however nonetheless, I am sorry in your loss. I am glad you bought to share this stuff along with your dad, and to be there for him, in life and at its finish.
My spouse and I met considerably late in life, and so began on children late. Having the ability to play successfully with more and more greater boys is an excellent factor.
My father-in-law has been declining for a while with dementia, in addition to diabetes and different well being points. A pair years in the past, we have been touring to a member of the family’s wedding ceremony, after we stopped at a fuel station/fireworks retailer for a pit cease. Dad had no walker with him, and it took over an hour to get him throughout the shop, into the toilet, and again, as a result of he was struggling a bout of weak point, and could not stand or stroll on his personal. That was one in every of my greatest “robust for another person” occasions to date, as nobody else there, within the household or the workers of the shop have been robust sufficient to help him and assist him, however fortunately, I used to be. I usually inform myself within the gymnasium that this rep is an important factor on this planet, and that is good psychological coaching, as a result of, as your piece reveals, typically it actually can be.
It will be significant for males to rage in opposition to the dying of the sunshine.
Maybach
When folks ask me about how robust they have to be, I’ve began changing multiples of their body weight with multiples of their liked one’s bodyweights. These are those which can be going to return up.
In the event you’re a comparatively ready bodied man, be capable of press your girlfriend and your mother.
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Microloading
Sstrpls
Hello Rip, If you may make your individual fragmental plates of no matter weight, which might be the lightest weight, past which there can be no level? Contemplate the weakest particular person you’d ever practice.
Mark Rippetoe
Depends upon who you are coaching. Previous ladies want 0.5lb jumps, you want 2lb jumps.
Sstrpls
I really feel like an outdated lady and definitely carry like one, so I am lined, thanks.
Jason Donaldson
One element to maintain on thoughts: Ensure you’re lifting with the identical plates and bar (and collars, or at the very least collar kind) every time, to make this work. Variances on tools can simply exceed small jumps, so lifting at residence or at the very least having the ability to mark and reuse a gymnasium’s tools can be vital.
