Average 18 year old guy has less test running through their veins than my dad did when he was 60. They are eating less protein, less real food, more processed food are less active but sleep less. Less likely to identify a goal and chase after it. Most are chronically under or overweight.
Under those circumstances, I’d think everyone was juicing too 
Lots of amazing young lifters though…
I confess I’m skipping deadlifts today to do more squats. I’m going for 20sets it’s my birthday 
Happy birthday!.
Happy BDay little one!
Celebrate with a PR!
Hit a press pr (absolute load) yesterday. Did 20 sets of squats today to celebrate
10x6, 10x5= 110 total= 5x22 ->5/22
Get it 
I confess the 10x5 was an excuse to not do sets of 6, just happened to work out nicely 
Happy birthday!
I don’t want to lose a whole hour watching that video. But it sounds like a challenge! Who can eat $150 in Cheesecake Factory food!!! The rule would be one 1 hour max.
Happy Birthday!
This might be the 5G Bill Gates chip talking but I used Edge recently and thought it was pretty good. Far less resource intensive than anything Chrome-based or Firefox
Edge is based on the same underlying bits as Chrome now.
I confess that I have found the sourest of grapes over at Starting Strength
Oh those big dumb bodybuilders who are only getting at getting big, strong and ripped. It’s a shame they’re not smart like us guys doing our 3x5s, eh?
What’s that expression–‘Haters gonna be resentful, and will frequently give voice to that resentment.’ Or something like that.
Most people I know IRL have never heard of SS and learned the ropes from older bodybuilders. If it works and you’re seeing results, you fucking keep doing it. To do otherwise despite this because you read some shit on the internet one day would be a real display of a lack of intelligence.
Oh fuck this diplomatic shit.
This dumb fuck thinks I have so many fucking injuries catching up with me as I age because I’ve been using pussy weights all this while? I’ve never spent years adapting and fine tuning shit like my technique and ploughed through lots of nonsense to find credible shit online before? Fuck him.
What’s the deal with this “elitist” nonsense? I don’t use complex words and terminology that the average person doesn’t know to make things simple for obvious noobs that I talk to. I’m not opening my mouth because I like the sound of my own voice or like to appear like I’m fucking smart as fuck or I’d just quote shit from people like Josh Bryant ad verbatim.
Idiots like him think I’m stupid because of this? He seems to be to be one of those attracted to that shit despite his post showing he doesn’t stand very much of it in the first place.
BTW, you SS zealots look fucking ridiculous low bar squatting with your elbows up. One day I’ll hijack the fucking sound system at the gym and play the Funky Chicken song or whatever the fuck it’s called when I see one of you squatting.
I really wanted to like this post more than 1 time.
I also REALLY want to like the message of Starting Strength, but then they do dumb stuff like this ALL the time to justify their own existence. When you specialize in only coaching people who are primed to make the easiest gains of their lives, you kinda took on the easiest and shortage job in the world. It’s too easy to step outside of that wheelhouse and find out you are WAY out of your depth.
Like anytime Rip talks about athletics.
It’s also fucking ironic that something meant to make shit SIMPLE for kids just wanting to bulk up for sports during the off season became something people started overcomplicating.
And how the fuck do people who revel in their own superior intellects not understand how to apply simple shit like GOMAD? It’s a fucking concept. A basic principle for people who struggle to gain weight for them to understand how much they’re undereating by experiencing shit the hard way.
If you’re already on the verge of becoming a fat fuck, don’t literally add a fucking GALLON of milk to your normal diet. Why would you tell someone like that to do so either just so he can “complete the program” with the arbitrary weight increments? It’s fucking stupid and completely nullifies the justification that the high frequency of performing the basic movements is supposed to improve technique faster.
Don’t get me started on “milking your beginner gainz”.
That is a sad, silly rant.
I am not sure what I just read here. What is the point he is trying to make?
Many bodybuilders are quite strong.
I read SS in college based on recommendations from friends and I really didn’t like it (I had been lifting for about 6 years already).
Makes me want to go to the forums just to kick the hornets nest.
As someone that got drug into there once, it’s not worth it. Hornets nest is right, primarily because it’s a hivemind.
Dude’s article had some potential. All it needed to say was “When your goal is to get big and strong, you can let your abs go”. Chase Karnes did that MASTERFULLY in “How to Stay Small and Weak”, as did Matt Reynolds in “Eating Through the Sticking Points”, which you can still find hidden on startingstrength even though they scrubbed all existence of Matt from the site after the lawsuit. But, instead, they tried to promote it like some sort of superior lifestyle and strung up an unwitting adversary to tear down. It was also why I couldn’t make it through “Dinosaur Training”, despite everyone telling me it’s required reading: Brooks spends the majority of his book explaining how everyone else is so stupid and he’s so smart.
@dt79 I’m constantly amazed at how complicated people want this to be. There’s a reason the jock stereotype is about being dumb. It doesn’t require a lot of thinking to get jacked.
Definitely a red flag in any book.