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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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Jul 15, 2020 • 1h 13min
Breaking the Cannonball Run Record with Fred Ashmore | Starting Strength Radio #65
Mark Rippetoe talks with Fred Ashmore who completed the Cannonball Run in 25:55 hours in a rented Mustang GT.

Jul 10, 2020 • 1h 15min
Q&A - The Voice of Reason among a Sea of Posers | Starting Strength Radio #64
Mark Rippetoe answers Starting Strength Radio fan questions about training for martial arts and grappling (again), lineage, massage guns and lots of other things.

Jul 3, 2020 • 1h 10min
A Conversation with Massenomics | Starting Strength Radio #63
Mark Rippetoe talks with Tanner and Tommy from @Massenomics about the cancelled Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, OH and the state of business during These Trying Times of house-arrest and mass hysteria.
00:00 Intro to Massenomics
08:32 The Gym
12:17 The Shirts
17:47 The Arnold
28:05 The Cancellation
32:30 GloboGym Future?
42:21 The Arnold 2021?
48:31 Online frenzy
55:38 Equipment biz?
58:23 Overrated/Underrated

Jun 25, 2020 • 1h 18min
Q&A Episode - They Really Don’t Know Anything | Starting Strength Radio #62
Mark Rippetoe answers Starting Strength Radio fan questions and responds to Comments from the Haters.
00:00 Intro
01:04 Comments from the Haters!
06:51 Coronavirus disease?
08:33 Deadwood movie
11:15 Full ROM vs matching sport-specific movement
14:32 How to strengthen a shoulder with rotator cuff tears?
15:47 Hernias (again!) and deadlifts
23:12 Increase weights after heart surgery?
25:19 Tendon popping over during the squat
28:08 Breaking up NLP into more workouts
32:34 Box squat warmup?
37:39 Adding grip training to SS NLP
43:12 Getting back under the bar after back surgery
46:04 Squatting with extra vertebra
48:53 Finger pain/blood flow restriction
52:32 Fixing frozen shoulder?
53:55 Scaphoid fracture mystery
55:30 No PT diagnosis despite $$$$$$$$$$$$$$!
1:00:56 Modified program with nerve injury
1:03:01 Not supposed to sq/dl/ohp, but...
1:06:58 Wrist injury?
1:11:06 Not what we want
1:11:52 Wrist bones sliding
1:14:12 Where did you get your shirt?

Jun 19, 2020 • 55min
“The Pivot” with Grant Broggi | Starting Strength Radio #61
Starting Strength Coach and Owner of the Strength Co. Grant Broggi joins Mark Rippetoe for a discussion on how Grant adapted his business to the government-imposed lockdown.

Jun 12, 2020 • 1h 1min
When Petty Tyrants Attack with Nick Koumalatsos | Starting Strength Radio #60
Mark Rippetoe is joined by Nick Koumalatsos to discuss the closing of his gym by a tyrannical local bureaucrat.

Jun 4, 2020 • 1h 29min
Q&A Episode - Warm and Cuddly Rip | Starting Strength Radio #59
Mark Rippetoe answers fan questions - how to deal with a crappy deadlift grip, knee pain while training, adding Starting Strength to a CrossFit affiliate, and ruptured achilles talk.

May 28, 2020 • 1h 21min
Q&A Episode - Back to the Old Normal | Starting Strength Radio #58
Mark Rippetoe answers questions from Starting Strength Radio fans - mostly about training.
00:00 Introduction
01:34 Comments from the Haters!
05:50 SISO
11:34 Bar maintenance
13:54 Jordan documentary
17:22 Back position control
17:50 Deadlifts for the elderly?
19:26 Training with a bent bar
22:34 Full ROM bench press
25:16 Rest between sets
31:17 Shoulder injury and lifting
34:49 Libertarian resources
38:44 Police academy - holding strength
41:50 Training for older novice
43:54 Prowler/HIIT/LSD
46:02 Strongman
48:47 Higher/lower reps for novices
51:25 No walls of text
51:34 Sexes and coaching
57:04 DL set up with locked knees?
58:51 Why isn't hip flexion loaded?
1:04:39 Training without ACL
1:07:04 Strength for hypermobility
1:13:06 Can't train...drop fat?

May 21, 2020 • 1h 12min
Rip’s Rant and Getting Back in the Gym After House Arrest | Starting Strength Radio #57
Mark Rippetoe discusses the proper way to get back into training after a 2-3 month house arrest layoff.
00:00 Intro
02:27 Comments from the Haters!
11:44 New posters & camps
18:11 Sky is Falling! extraordinary prediction failure in Wichita County
42:40 Getting Back into Training
47:28 First squats back
1:02:18 Intermediate lifter modification
1:04:08 Advanced lifter modification
1:09:24 General principles wrap-up

May 17, 2020 • 53min
A Dictatorship by Consent | Starting Strength Radio Extra
A follow up to the panel discussion between Mark Rippetoe, Stef Bradford, and Dr. Andrew Mueller on new developments since the government-imposed lockdowns around the world started in Mid-March.