Starting Strength

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Platform: Knee Wraps

Rip explains the use of supportive knee wraps to enable effective training for old and/or beat up lifters.

Monday, May 23, 2011

When we finally pulled to a stop in downtown Philadelphia, my knuckles were white and my sphincter had chewed off all the buttons on the passenger seat. I was in a daze. Hoffman checked his watch, smiled and said proudly, “Made good time.”

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Building An Empire

by Matt Reynolds

Sport coaches, who are typically excellent people, are vastly undereducated in strength and conditioning. They print out poorly designed cookie-cutter programs and expect enormous results. Or worse, kids are left to do whatever they want in the weight room. Full of enthusiasm, they still ultimately choose a hodgepodge program made of a mix of the latest fitness trends and weight training fallacies, and end up spinning their wheels and never making progress. The athletes are left pathetically weak and underweight, and the only things that grow are their egos (from 6″high squats) and their biceps (from training them 3 days per week). Our system is broken. If a change is to ever occur it must start with the coach.

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Thursday, May 05, 2011