With regard to elbow pain from the squat; what I’ve learned is that with a long forearm to upper arm ratio, it is counterproductive to attempt a very narrow grip. The forearms will simply not fit in the space between the elbows and the barbell, and you will overload your elbows. Using a wider grip, while reducing back tightness, is the solution I’ve found that fixes this for me. If your intern coach preaches narrow grip uber alles, you may need to help him/her understand that. Use a grip just wide enough that your elbows are not being loaded by the barbell, even if you have the shoulder mobility to go more narrow.

Thank you for the timeline. I can say that I watch these long videos and am confident many others do so too

You are a national treasure Mark Rippetoe!

I have now completed the internet! Thanks rip.

Thanks for another great video Mark.

Thankyou Rip for talking about tendons. I can personally attest to the truth of what you said. I’m 51 and found that many of the pains I had when I started training 3 years ago Cleared up mysteriously and you just explained how it works!

The tendon segment was spot on. Anytime I damage leg tendons or ligaments in jiu jitsu I spend the next week on my mountain bike, resting just makes it ping, pop and feel like it's about to explode every time I stand up. The bike, however, fixes it right up, often in less than a week.

“If I’m not satisfied, You get to train somewhere else” hahah savage

Thanks for the time stamps

Love the shocked expression @ 12:48...Priceless.

Mark, your analogy of the squat bail out is spot on. I watched two young, skinny guys bail out back to back on a 275 lb. squat. One idiot bailed and then the other idiot bailed. I explained to my training partner that over the past 40 years I have never bailed out on a squat. Not an option!

Very good information. Thank you.

Great content,thank you.

47:00 Then what are the pins in the rack for if you're never supposed to use them?

I'll bet you can set up an incline bench in a rack with spotter STRAPS rather than pins, and have it work out just fine. The reason being that the straps can be set up at an angle, rather then only perfectly horizontal.

You couldn't pay me enough to start riding a motorcycle again--drivers are totally out of their minds nowadays.

Is there a link to that European Study?

Thanks for the Lewis/Johnson bit.

Rip I love the shit-talking don’t ever change

I love Rippetoe.

I wish I knew about the tendinitis thing 10 years ago. Would have come in handy.

I have bailed on a squat, maybe 2 or 3 times. Each times it meant dumping the weight on the safeties in a rack. Very discouraging moment. However, nowadays I only have a squat stand, not a full rack & no safeties, but I'm still not worried about it. What I have found is, my body just won't let me sink a squat if I can't bring it back up. That's how people end up doing half squats right? It's too heavy to go all the way down. So it's just a question of not being too crazy. Every time I've had bail on a lift, in retrospect, I should have known better than to try. Same for every time I got injured in a lift. I think if you pay attention to your own body/mind, you should never have to bail on any lift. Just don't think you have to try something you can't do. There is definitely a line at which you're screwed, a weight you cannot lift, no matter how strong you are.

Very appropriate given that I've spent all week telling academics to not be dumb on a variety of matters.

I enjoy watching Rip's slow evolution into Wilford Brimley... no homo

I'm the 6' skinny guy with ok lifts who should eat more. I maybe should have mentioned that when I started lifting I weighed 60kg and I've definitly gained weight. My weight gain has stalled because 1) I work manual labour and burn around 3500kcal a day, 2) I have use of being a bit lighter in my work and hobbies 3) I'm not looking to get into power/strenghtlifting and I'm fine with not pulling 250kg, at least currently, 4)I have plenty of allergies that limit what I can eat and I in general don't enjoy eating either. My 6 years of lifting haven't been consistant either, I've had unrelated injuries and other issues coming in the way, sometimes taking 6 months off lifting. But I've always gotten back with the basic linear program and progressed every time. All this was unrelated to the actual question I was asking though... And yes, I've lifted 70/110/150/190 at 78kg bodyweight.

I incline bench in the rack...works alright.

The way rip blinks makes him look like an animatronic

"And for two years you gonna have your head up your ass." - Classic ;) @42:19

You could get gold in curling, I'd imagine.

In the days of yore, when Rip was young, curious, and quite chubby, he never missed a game of Smear the Que*r during recess at school. He loved the game and especially the contact. Invariably the football was always tossed to him, and he would frolic about, this way and that way, like a silly gazelle (or a soccer player) eagerly anticipating a climatic gang tackle.

19:12. Well said!

Finally, someone mentioning Carl Lewis doing steroids. It seems to have gone down the memory hole.

Yes! Please do a podcast where you cover the topic of academic journals and how special interest groups, politicians, the media, etc., use those studies to add credibility to their agendas, when in fact they were bias and possibly fraudulent to begin with. Thanks

Fight the power!

24:40-25:15 is pure gospel, shout it from the rooftops across the nation to all the sheeple

Well said about the Media Rip 👏👏

Rip, @45:05 you missed the important part of the question. Yeah, it was badly worded about "bailing out of a squat." You talk about needing to lift weights that are at the limit of your capacity. Sure. But what happens when you mess up and exceed that limit? How do you safely handle getting stuck at the bottom? Have some power rack pins set at just below the bottom of your squat (in the absence of a spotter)?

26:45: Rip alludes to the benefit of RPE

@starting strength I think the golfers elbow is not tendinitis but its tendinopathy. The research has showed that conditions like golfers elbow, tennis elbow, painful achilles tendon etc. is not caused by inflammation but mainly because of cell apoptosis and neovascularization. And yes, like Mark pointed out, tendinopathy does not get "cured" by rest. Anyways, great podcast, keep up the good work.

😁 A new one.

"Dearest, Rip...."

From what I've learned in this episode I will go ahead and assume that the dataset about the 40% wanting no chemicals was faked by professional researchers. Common sense should always prevail over "data" or "literature"

Where can i ask Rip a question?

I want mandatory labelling of food containing human DNA.

Fucking hilarious RIP, you are the man

"The public sucks, f hope" - George Carlin 😅

LOWER THE CONE OF HATE!

'Cash the cheque'. As the saying goes 'fools and their money are easily parted'. So if such fools happen to come your way and choose to ignore the very advice they are paying you for, then just be happy that their money is parting from them in your direction.

“Post a picture of your handsome young ass” Rip 2020

Live to us 🤣

I recently saw a podcast from you guys about nutrition, where you talked a lot about data and research in regards to eating and training. What happened to make you guys so opposed to it since then?

Thank you, Based God.

Okay okay but what does Mark think of the media?

Rip, you should do a collab with Alex Jones. I think he can teach you a thing or two about body composition, and you him about how the media is demonic! j/k ;) great episode, awesome fap!

You are gorgeos

Question about been press. I've heard for beginners a good alternative is push ups. Until if course you get really strong and they're no longer a challenge. I personally have been seeing good increase in strength and chest size with them. Doing them declined now for extra resistance.

Is that Mr Rippetoe doing the voiceover into?

Zone 2 training burns fat. But I heard this from a scientist who trains and analyzes professional cyclists. So I guess we have to discount that because he is in academia and Rip says that all they put out is trash. Even though he bases Starting Strength on the science of body mechanics.

Ironic advice coming from Rippedandtoned.

I don’t know a damn thing about testosterone usage, but even I knew that 500mg was a shit load of test.

Hahaha! Mark blushed on the butt plug comment!! I dang near died! I'm surprised ya'll have any working mics after Mark just dropped it like 20 times! Great watch.

The american education works perfectly. It's Goal "We will know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes is false" CIA director William Casey

lobster hands

Journalists are actually worse than lawyers.

3:20

I am a 17 year old who currently weighs 172 and is 6'0" and uh I have been training for 5 months, not 6 years

2 + 4 = 6

Practice good bench press safety or else you will be mocked (fortunately this guy escaped injury or worse so it is appropriate to watch): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atGYiaac3Za3pKs.html

While I don’t agree ( at all really ) with rips programming methods or even his views on injuries and pain and that there is “mechanical issues” in movements , still love listening to him for some reason😂

I think by Chemical Substances this person might be referencing illicit drugs.

I was sitting in my room when my mom and my dad came in and they pulled up a chair and they sat down They go: Mike, we need to talk to you And I go: Okay what's the matter? They go: Me and your mom have been noticing lately that you've been having a lot of problems And you've been going off for no reason and we're afraid you're going to hurt somebody And we're afraid you're going to hurt yourself So we decided that it would be in you're best interest if we put you somewhere Where you could get the help that you need And I go: Wait, what are you talking about, WE decided!? MY best interests?! How do you know what MY best interest is? How can you say what MY best interest is? What are you trying to say, I'M crazy? When I went to YOUR schools, I went to YOUR churches I went to YOUR institutional learning facilities?! So how can you say I'M crazy? They say they're gonna fix my brain Alleviate my suffering and my pain But by the time they fix my head Mentally I'll be dead

Reads question at 45:00 and then spends six minutes not answering it.

Rip's physique is like congress, 6% approval rating.

Assuming you know more than climate scientists and lecturing us that understand the science? It is important to realize that those experienced in this science are different from those experienced in political debate. They are not one in the same. I would never want a politician arguing my expertise in science for me. If you are open to learning, the arguments you gave are easily explained away and have been addressed.The public discourse on this topic is predictable and associated with party, which is disappointing. I wouldn't even trust getting road directions from a politician without being skeptical. The arguments you laid out are analogous to someone getting all their strength advice from crossfit: a bit of truth and a whole lot of poorly misunderstood training for injury instead of strength. All that to say...We want your strength expertise and experience, which is substantial, well informed, and practiced. Please dont turn this into a Limbaugh show or Maddow show for that matter that needlessly divide Americans into two groups of zealots for their gain instead of focusing on our common condition as Americans. Anyway, thank you for your contribution to the strength domain in which you have helped me understand greatly.

Thats a badly phrased question about "chemicals" if i've ever heard one. And the "ideal temperature" is less than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial average for the averaged year

Pot calling the kettle black eh Rip?

I'm listening to your podcast because it's about training, not politics. Then I wonder why you so often care more about how the questions are written than answering the questions? On the whole, I like your videos but please stop ridiculing people. You have enough to tell without having to.

Which 8 european nations? And sorry, but given the Food Babe and so on the US cannot be better. And Rip misses the point, the people quoted obviously don't mean chemicals per se. And climate change science is not driven by popular opinion but 99% of climate scientists. Rip should just step away from the scientific debate. He fails.

I love you Mark, but please, stop sniffling and shit when you do a podcast. It makes me turn them off instantly because it's so annoying in my ear