September 28, 2020

Anthocyanins Rising Edition

On Starting Strength

• Questions from the Lovers - Fire Bre! – Mark Rippetoe takes live calls from Starting Strength Radio fans.
• Bench Press - Finding Your Touch Point and Elbow Position – Starting Strength Coach Josh Wells demonstrates the proper touch point on the chest for the bench.
• How to Use Cast Iron Cookware - A Californian's Guide to Normal America Part 1 – Starting Strength Coach Nick Delgadillo gives a brief tutorial on using and maintaining cast iron cookware for our Coastal Friends seeking political asylum in Normal America.
• Starting Strength Gym Ownership Prerequisites by Ray Gillenwater – Now that we’ve proven the Starting Strength Gyms business model, we’re seeing an increase in franchise inquiries from investors and entrepreneurs, many of whom are unfamiliar with Starting Strength...
• When To Do the Lifts "Wrong" by Mark Rippetoe – Starting Strength is famous for it's dogmatic insistence that 1.) All squats must be done our way, 2.) everybody, without exception, must drink a gallon of milk a day...
• Weekend Archives: Strength Training and the Firefighter by John Musser – “Many don’t understand how dark it is inside a burning house,” Brent said. “You simply move toward the glowing fire – you are stumbling and sometimes falling over what’s left of somebody’s stuff. It is always interesting to go back in afterwards...
• Weekend Archives: Hitching the Deadlift – If your heavy deadlifts move up your thighs in a series of "jumps," you are performing what is called "hitching the bar." Hitches are illegal in powerlifting competition, but they are also a bad idea in general...

From the Coaches

• Phil Meggers invites you to come on in and get a tour of Testify Strength & Conditioning, a Starting Strength Affiliate Gym in Omaha, NE.
• Do you tend to press-out your jerks and snatches? Phil Meggers gives a useful cue to help you stop this nasty habit.
• To help those who tend to reach backward with their hips when initiating the press, Phil Meggers discusses how to stop "winding up" the press.
• Back leg too straight in your split jerk? Front knee too far forward? Phil Meggers discusses knee position in the split jerk as well as how to fix a few common problems.

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In the Trenches

Starting Strength Coach Zohar Yermiyahu cues Rita in her final set during our first ever Training Camp in Tel Aviv, Israel. [photo courtesy of Yariv Dagan]

Rip discovers that Jason refuses to use chalk for his heavy deadlifts. [photo courtesy of Nick Delgadillo]

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