RPE – My Thoughts Carl Raghavan, SSC | March 05, 2025 RPE Is Not a Training System. RPE is often mistaken for a full-fledged methodology. In reality, it’s just a subjective way to gauge intensity, originally developed for cardiovascular testing and later repurposed for strength training. Continue reading How to Approach Training for the Elderly Mark Rippetoe | February 26, 2025 Of course I'm kidding, because if you're training you're not really elderly, in the sense that the government uses the term for Medicare Recipients and people on 13 prescriptions. Training keeps this from happening. But it must be said that 70-year-old people cannot approach their training the same way they did when they were 20... Continue reading Programming the Press: It Depends – It Doesn’t Matter Michael Jones, SSC | January 29, 2025 One of the least useful, but nonetheless entertaining themes during the programming lecture at the Starting Strength Seminar is about programming advancement and whether an athlete falls into the category of novice, intermediate, or advanced. The gist is that it depends on many factors and that the structures in and of themselves don't really matter, even if they are handy place-holders. Continue reading Snatch-Grip and Deficit Deadlifts: Increasing the Range of Motion of the Deadlift Michael Jones, SSC | December 24, 2024 Most of us should be deadlifting. And by most of us, I mean all of us. We should follow the novice progression, deadlifting every day. Then alternate in power cleans, then chin-ups...[i]f you have moved beyond weekly progressions, then you have probably been exposed to the rack pull, maybe paused deadlifts, and if you have offended your coach, haltings. At some point in your intermediate to advanced programming it might behoove you to introduce other deadlift variations. Continue reading Programming a Smooth NLP Scott Acosta, SSC | October 23, 2024 As simple as the Novice Linear Progression (NLP) is, there is an awful lot of opportunity to mess it up. Mistakes usually come at points when a slight program adjustment is needed, but either too drastic a change is made or no change is made at all. This leads to lots of preventable problems. Continue reading First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
How to Approach Training for the Elderly Mark Rippetoe | February 26, 2025 Of course I'm kidding, because if you're training you're not really elderly, in the sense that the government uses the term for Medicare Recipients and people on 13 prescriptions. Training keeps this from happening. But it must be said that 70-year-old people cannot approach their training the same way they did when they were 20... Continue reading Programming the Press: It Depends – It Doesn’t Matter Michael Jones, SSC | January 29, 2025 One of the least useful, but nonetheless entertaining themes during the programming lecture at the Starting Strength Seminar is about programming advancement and whether an athlete falls into the category of novice, intermediate, or advanced. The gist is that it depends on many factors and that the structures in and of themselves don't really matter, even if they are handy place-holders. Continue reading Snatch-Grip and Deficit Deadlifts: Increasing the Range of Motion of the Deadlift Michael Jones, SSC | December 24, 2024 Most of us should be deadlifting. And by most of us, I mean all of us. We should follow the novice progression, deadlifting every day. Then alternate in power cleans, then chin-ups...[i]f you have moved beyond weekly progressions, then you have probably been exposed to the rack pull, maybe paused deadlifts, and if you have offended your coach, haltings. At some point in your intermediate to advanced programming it might behoove you to introduce other deadlift variations. Continue reading Programming a Smooth NLP Scott Acosta, SSC | October 23, 2024 As simple as the Novice Linear Progression (NLP) is, there is an awful lot of opportunity to mess it up. Mistakes usually come at points when a slight program adjustment is needed, but either too drastic a change is made or no change is made at all. This leads to lots of preventable problems. Continue reading First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
Programming the Press: It Depends – It Doesn’t Matter Michael Jones, SSC | January 29, 2025 One of the least useful, but nonetheless entertaining themes during the programming lecture at the Starting Strength Seminar is about programming advancement and whether an athlete falls into the category of novice, intermediate, or advanced. The gist is that it depends on many factors and that the structures in and of themselves don't really matter, even if they are handy place-holders. Continue reading Snatch-Grip and Deficit Deadlifts: Increasing the Range of Motion of the Deadlift Michael Jones, SSC | December 24, 2024 Most of us should be deadlifting. And by most of us, I mean all of us. We should follow the novice progression, deadlifting every day. Then alternate in power cleans, then chin-ups...[i]f you have moved beyond weekly progressions, then you have probably been exposed to the rack pull, maybe paused deadlifts, and if you have offended your coach, haltings. At some point in your intermediate to advanced programming it might behoove you to introduce other deadlift variations. Continue reading Programming a Smooth NLP Scott Acosta, SSC | October 23, 2024 As simple as the Novice Linear Progression (NLP) is, there is an awful lot of opportunity to mess it up. Mistakes usually come at points when a slight program adjustment is needed, but either too drastic a change is made or no change is made at all. This leads to lots of preventable problems. Continue reading First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
Snatch-Grip and Deficit Deadlifts: Increasing the Range of Motion of the Deadlift Michael Jones, SSC | December 24, 2024 Most of us should be deadlifting. And by most of us, I mean all of us. We should follow the novice progression, deadlifting every day. Then alternate in power cleans, then chin-ups...[i]f you have moved beyond weekly progressions, then you have probably been exposed to the rack pull, maybe paused deadlifts, and if you have offended your coach, haltings. At some point in your intermediate to advanced programming it might behoove you to introduce other deadlift variations. Continue reading Programming a Smooth NLP Scott Acosta, SSC | October 23, 2024 As simple as the Novice Linear Progression (NLP) is, there is an awful lot of opportunity to mess it up. Mistakes usually come at points when a slight program adjustment is needed, but either too drastic a change is made or no change is made at all. This leads to lots of preventable problems. Continue reading First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
Programming a Smooth NLP Scott Acosta, SSC | October 23, 2024 As simple as the Novice Linear Progression (NLP) is, there is an awful lot of opportunity to mess it up. Mistakes usually come at points when a slight program adjustment is needed, but either too drastic a change is made or no change is made at all. This leads to lots of preventable problems. Continue reading
