February 10, 2025
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On Beginning Energy
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What is a Lifter? –
Rip talks about what varieties of individuals go to gyms and the variations between them – lifters, gymnasium bros, private coaching purchasers and so forth. -
The Basics of a Performance Diet by Mark Rippetoe –
Consuming for power coaching is simply not that difficult. More often than not, individuals who let you know it’s try to promote you one thing. There are only a few primary ideas to bear in mind… -
Using the Leg Press to Build Strength to Squat –
Rip explains how the leg press can be utilized to incrementally load a brand new trainee to develop the leg power wanted to squat. -
Yinyang: Technique and Strength in the Martial Arts by Dave Longley –
You don’t have to be sturdy to do Martial Arts. There. It has been written. And not using a shadow of a doubt, my opening sentence is true, and true in all instances. As you proceed studying, chances are you’ll really feel your fury rising… -
The First Rep by Daniel Raimondi –
The novice development begins by discovering a weight that may be carried out with good approach, which slows the elevate down barely. This represents sufficient of a stress on day 1 to start… - Weekend Archives:
What Not to Do: Observations of Powerlifters Coaching Novices by Kyle Masks –
After coaching for almost a decade at a business gymnasium in one in all Nashville’s poshest neighborhoods, I firmly believed I had seen each doable iteration of tomfoolery and Foolish Bullshit utilized to the coaching of novices… - Weekend Archives:
Tactile Cues and Coaching by Mark Rippetoe –
I’ve observed an issue just lately. I do not know if it has been there all alongside, or if one thing has modified inside widespread tradition that has severely encumbered an already troublesome process. Both manner, it should be addressed…
Within the Trenches
Get Concerned
Better of the Week
The US Army Stole Your Line!
TommyGun
Rip, Simply noticed an advert for the US Military of a soldier deadlifting (gasp), placing the bar down, then trying into the digital camera saying “Stronger troopers are tougher to kill.”
I like it. A return to warfighters understanding the significance of power.
Mark Rippetoe
I noticed that. Level that out to them.
VNV
Accomplished it for them with “and extra helpful on the whole.”
Better of the Discussion board
Halting / Rack Pull Programming
andybiggs90
Hiya all, that is my first time posting within the boards so please forgive me if I fuck one thing up in how I try and illicit recommendation from all of you high-quality champions of power.
I have been lifting sporadically for about 20 years , however I solely actually began coaching in late 2020 after I found the Beginning Energy program.
I am a 32 y/o, 6’3″, 305# male and my present lifts are:
DL- 550×5, 600×1
Squat – 480×5, 530×1
Press- 282×5, 300×1
Bench- 375×5, 415×1
Clear- an excessive amount of of a pussy to Clear as a result of each time I attempt to program them, I at all times find yourself getting again tweaks and I am at present too broke to hunt out a SSC to get fingers on teaching.
Anyway, for deadlifts, I’ve simply been going up 5# a exercise for an entire lot of exercises and I’ve reached the purpose the place I’ve stalled out and been unable to get 555×5 on quite a few events, so I might like to exchange my heavy deadlift day by alternating between Rack Pull and Halting Deadlifts every week to energy by my plateau and ultimately pull 600×5 for no different motive than that I feel it will be actually neat.
I’ve a 2 questions-
Q1) For my warmups, ought to I be doing full ROM Deadlifts earlier than my Haltings and Rack Pulls (respectively), or simply warmup by doing Haltings and Rack Pulls?
Q2) For my work set programming, ought to I simply do one heavy set of 5 as I have been doing for my normal deadlifts, or ought to I do 3 heavy units of 5 as a result of these variations needs to be inflicting much less stress than their full ROM counterpart.
Thanks upfront for any recommendation.
Mark Rippetoe
Q1: I might do 135, 225 as deadlifts, then 315 as haltings or rack pulls.
Q2: Don’t do units throughout with both of those pulls. That defeats the aim of utilizing a less-stressful motion.
