

Starting Strength Radio
Mark Rippetoe
Starting Strength is the bestselling book on the most fundamental and effective approach to strength training ever written. Mark Rippetoe hosts Starting Strength Radio where he discusses topics of interest, primarily to him, but perhaps also to you.
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Aug 4, 2023 • 1h 19min
Q&A Episode - TLDR, Dune, and Starr Squat Technique | Starting Strength Radio #224
Rip answers questions from Starting Strength Network subscribers and fans.
05:41 Comments from the Haters!
22:03 TLDR
33:51 Worthless S&C coaches in the NFL
46:03 Rip’s thoughts on Dune
52:13 Andy Baker programs/hypertrophy
55:03 Lifting after kidney surgery
58:45 Regrouping your hook grip
59:38 BBQ with leaves
1:04:54 Starr on squat technique

Jul 31, 2023 • 57min
Wrestler, Mom, Coach, Maxine Lisot | Starting Strength Gyms Podcast #55
Ray Gillenwater talks to Starting Strength Plano Coach Maxine Lisot about being the fastest to finish the prep course, coaching girls wresting, her martial arts background, and how important barbell training is for female athletes.
01:30 - Prep Course finished in 4 months
04:32 - Taking the platform and volume control
06:22 - Controlling anxiety
08:58 - Wrestling and martial arts
23:13 - Goal meet numbers
24:39 - Special culture in the Texas gyms
26:35 - Philosophy on coaching
32:00 - Favorite member stories
35:07 - Girls wrestling coaching
37:11 - Belief comes first/new updates to the website
41:57 - Karate/BJJ
47:40 - Advice to your younger self
50:45 - How important exposure to barbell training can be

Jul 28, 2023 • 1h 12min
Safety While Lifting | Starting Strength Radio #223
Rip talks about the importance of safety in major barbell exercises and how injuries can be prevented by picking the correct weight and having spotters.
00:47 The accident
04:14 Safety during the lifts
07:30 Proper spotting in the squat
33:47 Bench is inherently dangerous
51:45 Considerations for the press
55:59 Don’t spot a deadlift
1:01:22 The power clean platform

Jul 21, 2023 • 1h 26min
Q&A Episode - Assistance Lifts, Broken Scapula, and Clavicle Pain | Starting Strength Radio #222
Rip answers questions from Starting Strength Network subscribers and fans.
02:42 Comments from the Haters!
16:40 Rep ranges for assistance lifts
28:19 Broke scapula…help
45:11 Hurt meniscus
54:14 When to specialize in the OHP
1:05:01 Pregnancy and training
1:16:53 Clavicle pain

Jul 17, 2023 • 1h 4min
Engineer, SSC, SS Gym Owner, Andrew Lewis | Starting Strength Gyms Podcast #55
Ray Gillenwater talks to the owner of Starting Strength Indianapolis, Andrew Lewis, about upcoming gym updates, insights from his training logbooks, and how training helped tremendously with his depression.
01:14 - Logbooks from Starting Strength Coaches
02:58 - Starting Strength Indianapolis updates
08:42 - Client stories
11:14 - Andrew's PRs
13:04 - Back to day one
18:55 - After LP
23:32 - Olympic lifting
27:11 - Failing the opt-in during the seminar
31:06 - Insights from training and life
36:32 - Motivation for training
40:11 - Training to help depression
47:05 - Current programming
49:39 - Blackmetal Strength to SS Indianapolis
53:02 - Can you think for yourself?
56:15 - What would you do differently if you could do this again?

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Jul 14, 2023 • 1h 8min
The Truth About Steroids | Starting Strength Radio #221
Rip talks about the history of anabolic steroids, who uses them and why, and why they are completely inappropriate and unnecessary for most lifters.
01:02 4th of July
06:33 Anabolic steroids
19:20 What they do/morals
23:38 Steroids and the Olympics
36:17 A novice should just do a good strength program
42:30 Steroids help bad training
53:12 What they don’t do

Jul 7, 2023 • 1h 22min
Q&A Episode - Personal Trainers to Barbell Coaches, Bellies, & More | Starting Strength Radio #220
Rip answers questions from Starting Strength Network subscribers and fans.
02:25 Comments from the Haters!
13:07 Ask a Jew
31:04 Structural asymmetry
37:05 Personal trainers to barbell coaches
43:29 Do you miss Bre?
44:00 Can’t straighten elbow in press
45:43 Marty Fox's silly questions
48:31 Does the CNS get trained?
1:00:50 Things to know about North Texas and Oklahoma
1:03:20 Achilles tendon injury
1:12:44 How to get a smaller belly?
1:15:41 More cooking videos

Jul 3, 2023 • 1h 8min
Franchising 101 with Tim Pickwell | Starting Strength Gyms #54
Everything you never asked to know about the franchise business is covered in this conversation between Ray Gillenwater and our franchise attorney, Tim Pickwell. If business legal minutia gets your engines revving, we feel sorry for you, but the good news is you may enjoy this podcast episode. And for those of you that say we're boring...this episode is evidence that you are indeed correct.
01:02 Franchise attorney
02:54 How SS Gyms operates vs others
05:42 Cash flow positive
06:49 Franchisee success and treatment compared to others
09:36 Majority of revenue from royalties
12:16 Maintaining quality and growing as slowly as we need to grow
20:30 Relevant regulations and why they were created
27:11 Federal Trade Commission
31:34 North American Securities Administrators Association
36:56 Are the FDD and laws obsolete?
39:49 No SS Gyms in California and New York
44:50 Thank you to our members
46:11 How many franchise companies are self funded?
48:21 40 gyms is the magic number
48:51 What could we do better?
51:19 Ray Kroc
51:58 Good things to come
57:35 We love transparency

Jun 30, 2023 • 1h 8min
Hypertrophy | Starting Strength Radio #219
Rip talks about muscular growth and strength increases. He discusses why lifting light weights for high reps does not drive muscle growth and adding more volume doesn't mean you're "doing hypertrophy."
02:47 Comments from the Haters!
14:57 Ask a brown
17:38 Let’s talk about hypertrophy
20:38 Phenomenology
36:19 Volume and stress are different
42:30 You have to grind
49:37 Theories must change with evidence
59:22 Hypertrophy and a “cut"

Jun 23, 2023 • 50min
RFK Jr. vs. Peter Hotez, VAERS, and Vaccines With Dr. Jessica Rose | Starting Strength Radio #218
Rip and Jessica Rose the VAERS system and what the data shows over the last three years regarding emergency use vaccines.
00:28 Dr. Jessica Rose
06:20 Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
14:30 VAERS works and needs to be watched
17:05 Is the Covid-19 vaccine a real vaccine?
22:51 What is a vaccine?
29:01 Distrust in the system now
34:13 Robert F. Kennedy and Peter Hotez


