That gym looks amazing for setting PRs in. Wow. Food looks fantastic too
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It’s empty when I’m there too just me and my boy. Music selection is all us and get in goto work and get out. Lovely perk of my job
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High school weight rooms are highly underrated. I’ve been lifting in one since November! What kind of music do you guys listen to?
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Depends on the day. Metal, classic rock, sons like rap. We mix it up.
I like machine head, Metallica, pantera, nirvana, etc
He likes drake, amigos,
Is there a thread for music interest here somewhere?
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I’m a big Metallica/Nirvana guy. Migos is good too, but I can’t lift to them. I need something with a heavier sound when I’m trying to push some weights hahaha
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My go-to lifting music is James Brown
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I think i spotted Rippetoe over in the corner too…
That gym smell of rusted metal and must. Love it.
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Ripplestilkskin is always lurking in the shadows. Like the Boogie Man. Or whatever eats unruly children.
He’s like “Don’t think about what you’re doing, just Overload the Basics.” For every sore knee/shoulder/elbow/back his nonsense causes, he gets 2 gold pieces.
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Sit waaaay back, but also let your knees go waaaay forward. That way, you get to move twice as far to hit parallel. Great for knees and quad tendons! And remember to lean forward so you can strain your lower back at the same time.
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Haha. Pure gold Flats.
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Even though I don’t agree with everything Rip says, his advice on how to get a novice strong is pretty damn solid. I definitely don’t agree with some of his views, but he definitely has good arguments for most of the things he says.
But it is very fun to make fun of him haha. I guess the joke’s on me though since he’s three times my age and can deadlift 500 and press my max for reps 
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Some people will like the convenient utility of a station wagon, or the imperfect results you can get in any task with a Swiss army knife.
Other people like to use the car Or the pickup truck. The variable speed impact driver Or the drywall saw.
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Not sure what this means, but I’m guessing you are saying: Rip advocates a training method that is not optimal for many goals, but it gets the job done for strength training and some related activities.
If so, I agree with you. I think that many people can accomplish their goals without Starting Strength. Rip essentially argues that Starting Strength is good for every goal and that strength is “the most important thing in life,” which is pretty silly IMO. Thus, I agree with him on many things (e.g. his emphasis on compound movements that work a lot of muscles, a small variety of very effective lifts for novices, and eating enough for strength), but I disagree with him on other issues.
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I guess the important question is what to do After Rip? When youre not a novice what do you do? And how do you connect Starting Strength to what comes next?
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Absolutely. And I think that’s where Rip falls a bit short. He does outline some intermediate programs in Practical Programming, but they are essentially all for the acquisition of strength subject to no constraints or other goals. The thing is: if everyone should do Starting Strength (including the marathon runner, the competitive athlete, the bodybuilder), it doesn’t seem like he gives much guidance for how to follow up on the program with these other goals.
Regardless Starting Strength has given a lot of elderly people their lives back, and it has helped many people understand the foundations of training and the importance of the basics (as Wendler says, not majoring in the minors). I also like how Rip focuses so much on helping the elderly population feel better. Those are the people he primarily trains now. But he can certainly be an ass sometimes.
I think writers such as Jim Wendler give a lot of guidance on what to do after the novice stage. I think that a pretty solid plan (that some of my friends have followed) is to learn lifting by doing Starting Strength and then to do a program afterwards that is conducive to your specific goals (like 5/3/1 as an intermediate strength program).
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2/24/18- pillar squats and Hypertrophy.
So I’ll just post the workout then the thoughts after…
Squat:
45x10
145x25 (all good winded but good)
Hyper program: legs
Squats:
155x15
165x15
175x15
185x12 (I could have done 15 but why?)
Ft squat: ( really? Why?)
95x12
115x12
135x12
At this point I was sweating and fighting back puke. Seriously survival was the thinking at this point.
DB reverse lunge: (1st time this exercise)
20x12x3 (weight up next time)
SS single leg curls/ extensions
20x10/ 20x12
20x10/ 25x12
20x10/ 25x12 (walking is out of the? Now)
Calfs: (really?)
230x 20, 20, 15
Ok so this workout is fucking brutal, I was on the verge of puke from the last set of back squats on to the end of the workout.
It is brutal. I was barely able to walk out of the gym after this… I love it!
Meal prep for next week is started and I raised the amount of food prepped for meals next week. Gonna shoot for 3000 kcal minimum and watch weight closely. I may need to go to 3500/4000 just to recover. I doubt walking normally tomorrow will happen. But I will do a recovery walk tomorrow just to ensure some new blood flow gets into the lower half. Maybe some body weight squats to get some blood flow…
You are welcome to try this out, but let me warn you. It is brutal…
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I started my son on Rips starting strength. He did it for 4-5 weeks and saw improvement. Then we moved to 531 using his SS numbers as a TM. Did 12 weeks of 531 and he blew up…both in weights lifted and body comp. He was board with lifting heavy and wanted to do a Hypertrophy block (good thinking really). So that is what we are doing now.
Chad Wesley says for novice lifters they need 3 Hypertrophy blocks and 2 strength blocks, and 1 peaking block or if peaking is not needed for competition to do another strength or hyper block. I think this is good logic so me being a novice it is how I’ve structured my first year. This will be my 3rd hyper block since I’ve started. I’ll finish the year (ends for me July) with strength blocks.
After that I’ll adjust my blocks to fit football season (strength), holidays (hyper bulk), early year (cut/ strength), track season (hyper), summer (strength/ cardio).
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Adding that to my playlist
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On Rip. I did follow his hamstring rehab protocol and it worked like a champ. Came back better than before… imo he is short sighted in reguards to overall programming, but I think it is more delebrate than lack of knowledge. He found his niche and stays in the grove that is paying for his retirement. That is a sly old fox in my opinion. His SS program is money for a true novice, but does lack the guidance for moving into deeper lifting knowledge. I’m thinking he knows the people that desire more will find it…taking their training into their own hands and he understands beyond that novice stage it is not a one size fits all for programming.
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