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Joined June 2011
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Shift Edition - Starting Strength Weekly Report September 28, 2026 Inserts, Ostomy Bag, & Wraps; The Problem with “Good For Your Age”; Training When It's Not Optimal; Should I Stay or Should I Go?; 6 Tips to Help Load and Unload Your Deadlifts; Youngsters Need Strength Too; Squat Depth; Treadmills to deadlifts: Why Gen Z are swapping cardio for strength training; Skis and knees startingstrength.com/report/…
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"Getting stronger is an advantage to anyone at any age, but particularly so for youngsters. It can completely change their conception of themselves, and this attitude will carry over to all the other endeavors they take part in as well."
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Upon observing that someone's hips shoot up before their chest/torso in the deadlift, it's amazing how many complicated cues supposedly good coaches will come up with, instead of just teaching and enforcing the correct starting position to begin with (left instead of middle)
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Starting Strength retweeted
Most people grab a deadlift bar the way they'd grab anything else: in the palm, then squeeze. That's where the torn calluses across the top of the palm come from. The fix is where the bar sits. Set it down in your fingers first, then close your grip. The skin of your fingers tak
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But if you do power cleans wrong enough it becomes a biceps workout
You can tell someone is a Starting Strength guy because they have small arms. - SSC
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Strength isn’t just a physical quality. It’s a skill. Producing huge amounts of force while maintaining good technique is a skill. Staying calm, focused and technically sound during a heavy squat, press, bench or deadlift is a skill.
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Starting Strength retweeted
My wife when I begin to explain to my In laws at Thanksgiving Dinner that "Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether you want it to be or not. As humanity has developed throughout history, physical strength has become less critical to our daily existence, but no less important to our lives. Our strength, more than any other thing we possess, still determines the quality and the quantity of our time here in these bodies...... we are still animals - our physical existence is, in the final anal ysis, the only one that actually matters. A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong..."
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Today is a great day for me to take a bunch of elderly people through workouts consisting of heavy squats, bench, press, and deadlifts.
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Rip answers questions from Starting Strength Network subscribers and fans.
Q&A Episode - Inserts, Ostomy Bag, & Wraps | Starting Strength Radio #359 startingstrength.com/video/q…
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Q&A Episode - Inserts, Ostomy Bag, & Wraps | Starting Strength Radio #359 startingstrength.com/video/q…
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You can tell someone is a Starting Strength guy because they have small arms. - SSC
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The most annoying part of getting a bigger, stronger deadlift? Having to load and unload all of those plates. Keep it simple and keep it easy. Starting Strength Coach Phil Meggers of Testify Strength & Conditioning in Omaha, NE, gives you 6 tips to make your life easier so you can save some energy for that big pull you've got coming up.
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Get Your FIRST Chin-up or Pull-up | 6 Ways to Success! @SS_strength Click here to watch the full video: testifysc.com/articles/get-y…
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See @SS_strength has been wrong all along. You don’t need to gain bodyweight. lol
Finally, proof that lifting heavy doesnt make you bulky
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