I totally agree with that. While I would never personally use his coaching methods, I do believe that he’d be great fun to drink whisky with.
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Mark is an excellent case study in mentality. If more beginners adopted his “f**k you, I know this works” mentality, they would get super far compared to needing to crosscheck everything with everything.
But he is also the guy that listens to AM radio way too loud and says that the post office charging an extra cent for a stamp is a ponzi scheme.
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“Chopping the body up into its constituent components and then working these components seperately lacks the capacity to make things change. The stress that can be applied to one piece at a time can never add up to the stress that can be applied to the whole thing working as a system.”
Obviously 1 + 2 + 3 will add up to more than just 2 by itself (Compound movements vs isolations), BUT simply by nature of natural structural or performance imbalances, it’s very common for people to develop unbalanced physiques training in the manner recommended in the article.
Yates was a big fan of pre-exhaust as we’ll performing certAin movements to stress his target muscle groups (in addition to squatting on a smith machine since his amateur days).
There’s a reason no great bodybuilders follow Rip’s advice, in regard to training as well as diet (Gomad? -lol)
And trashing physical therapists? I can’t defend every PT out there, but In modern day athletics, there’s a reason multi-million dollar athletes hire therapists and not angry, aging old gym rats clinging to their old school I’m so hard core dogma to help them out.
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I honestly can’t think of a more educated and helpful group of people to have a go at than PT’s, especially when it comes to strength and performance.
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Since I’ve been around the Fitness industry, some of the smartest and at times jacked people I’ve met have been PTs, usually with a Side CSCS and they’re the ones truly changing how athletes perform and in many cases how bodybuilders avoid injuries and still progress.
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Dammit! I have a CSCS and use to work in a gym alongside a PT. I could’ve been half of a great team!
I was just checkin the inline specs…on the…rotor…I’m an idiot.
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TIL Ripp is my father.
I think Rip suffers from two things. Mainly the “it worked for me thus it is optimal for everyone” and he is so single minded in his focus in strength training that he completely ignores any other objective. All of his advice seems to carry those two unstated premises with them.
Sure a leg curl might not directly increase your deadlift as much as deadlifting but some people want bigger hamstrings, and eventually that could lead to a bigger dead lift.
Also, he tends to focus on rank beginners who can benefit from a stripped down approach: do these 5 exercises, add weight every workout, and drink a bunch of milk. See you in a year.
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No. You must squat daily, add ten pounds. You must OHP daily, add five pounds. you must drink a gallon of milk daily, add five pounds.
If you do not weigh 200 pounds, you are not an adult man.
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I think we should just be thankful that someone finally cracked the code on how beginners can make progress. Definitely the hardest group to get anywhere with, not like they can just do basically anything with it working out well.
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The dude sold 500,000 copies of Starting Strength!
Say what you want, but Ol’ Ripplestilkskin is no dummy!
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How many copies of dianetics did L Ron Hubbard sell?
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83 million, for what it’s worth
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And now for another confession: I was a manager at a Physical Therapy clinic that turned out to be run by Scientologists. Saw LRH books in the CEOs office and had heavy suspicions but it was all confirmed when they asked me to go to a “training seminar” in Clearwater, FL.
They were successful, but the most ruthless, work-you-to-death people I’ve ever dealt with.
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I heard on the radio this morning a woman that rescued a bunch of animals was arrested for operating an illegal rescue…
True…But his mentor Bill Starr was smarter .
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I don;'t think it was a brand new article, but on my TN front page feed, an article by Clay Hyght (sp?) popped up. As I read it, I realized that a guy with Clay’s credentials as a bodybuilding competitor, judge, and someone who has actually coached successful bodybuilders, his writing pretty much went against what Rip (a guy who was never a bodybuilder as far as I know, hasn’t coached any bodybuilders, and pretty much just repeats the same basic “do a few compound lifts and get more calories” approach to get undernourished newbs to put on a few lbs) was ranting about in his latest piece.
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Yesterday:
Wife: Little Timmy was so naughty today
Me: What happened?
Wife: He asked a little girl “what happened to your face?”
Me: That’s terrible
Today at work:
Me: Hey Jimbo!
Jimbo: yeah?
Me: what happened to your face?
I get all my locker room talk from my kids.
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I’ve officially signed up for a 10K hill-ridden trail run and posted the Just Giving page to social media. Do you think I can fake my death beforehand? How long after one fakes one’s death is it OK to re-emerge into one’s old life and let everyone know that it was just to get out of having to run? Like a week?
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