Carbohydrates and Barbell Training Robert Santana, PhD, RD, SSC | January 15, 2020 Carbohydrates are perhaps the most misunderstood macronutrient. If I had to be a macronutrient, I’d probably be a carbohydrate. Since I am not, I’ll settle for being an author who defends their honor, palatability, and function in human physiology. Continue reading
The Minimum Effective Dose of Training Mark Rippetoe | January 08, 2020 "Like any medication that has the power to alter physiology, barbell training must be administered with attention paid to dosing – the amount and the schedule. It's damned hard to kill yourself with barbell training, and you'd have to be ignoring a lot of things if you ever even got close, but it's easy to get carried away and do too much, too often, with too much weight. The price paid is not death, but wasted time and potential." Continue reading
Starting Strength Gyms – The Plan for 2020 Ray Gillenwater, SSC | January 07, 2020 2019 was about proving that there is an unmet need for in-person Starting Strength coaching in major cities across the country. 2020 is going to be about growth: for trainees that lift with us, for gym owners that have invested in us, and in new markets that we are expanding in and to. Continue reading
Performance Shooting and Strength Justin Nazaroff | January 01, 2020 If you haven’t put in the training time, you will not magically turn into John Wick in the event you are placed in a life-or-death scenario... When confronted with a situation that warrants the use of deadly force, the decision to fire a weapon must be made with the awareness that being too slow, or missing the target, can have disastrous results for shooter (and, potentially, for innocent bystanders). Continue reading
Wittgenstein's Programming Lecture: Part II in Thinking About Thinking About Lifting Noah Milstein, SSC | December 25, 2019 You’ve finished your linear progression, now what? Texas Method, 5/3/1, Heavy Light Medium, Conjugate, Juggernaut, The Cube? There’s quite an array of options, each with their own battery of justifications. How do you decide? Continue reading
