Haha. Are those paid seminars for coaching certification or just typical Sunday sermons?
Pull camp was sermon with coaching. It was pretty good actually. Last week I went to a live prep for the CSCS exam - now that’s some wacky shit.
How wacky lol?
Btw, you do know my stance on SS right? That I don’t really like it but I think it can be done provided one does not get sucked into the dogma? I’m not purposely bashing it or the qualified people coaching it, but I just felt the need to provide a link to real world results as a counter to the belief of it being the bestest, most optimalest program in the whole world for beginners so these guys can see for themselves.
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This. Starting Strength is a solid choice for what it accomplishes, but it is ridiculously over-prescribed. Running it like how Bill Starr envisioned when he created it is a solid idea (off-season athletes for 2-3 months to get their lifts back up). The panacea for beginners thing just became frustrating to unpack.
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I do, and have come to agree with it for the most part. I think Rip has done a good job of branding it and when people are attracted to the sciency language, they drink the Kool Aid, myself included.
I think they do a good job with the text and the certification of coaches. I’ve met several, and they seem to be knowledgeable, able to cure faults, and to express the reasons for the methods. Online, many of them come off as raging assholes, so there’s that as well.
I think one of the attractions of SS is it is probably the best known NLP and so newbies get the idea that Rip invented it. Rip acknowledges that novice trainees will get stronger riding a bike much less squatting.
FWIW, I am currently running it after taking ten weeks off this Summer, specifically like an off season program as @T3hPwnisher mentions above. My lifts had gotten anemic and I wanted to get them back up.
Like any tool, SS has it’s uses. But, clearly, it’s appeal is personal. Some would be better running another type of progression. I know this is going to be stating the obvious, but, everybody’s different.
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