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- When did you start microloading your bench? (SS)
- Is Starting Strength some ancient pagan practice nowadays?
- Back at it after 8 months off
- Squat Shoes
- Best Belts still in business?
- Roulette
- Stalling on presses
- assisted machine pullups
- Platform: The Squat - Bar Position
- squat check, with video
- Carvalio's Log.
- Stronger/dominant leg is smaller: nerve impingement?
- Starting Strength for a teen.
- first pl meet attempt selection
- Grip limiting my deadlift
- Pressing three times a week?
- Question about press starts
- Feeling way to tight
- Geezers targeted by thugs
- Triples for Press, Novice
- Taller athletes
- Benching while belted?
- Konstantinovs Uses the Sling Shot
- Conditioning
- 5 months in..
- Squat wrist/arm position with past injury
- Burned out on SS for now
- My Poor Friend
- Should I wear weightlifting shoes to squat even if I don't "need" to?
- Sticking point on the deadlift
- For the olympic lifting oriented...
- Technique or Bumper plates with 1" hole diameter
- Weighted Push-ups
- Adding in endurance stuff
- Need shoe advice ASAP
- Bigger deload + big steps or smaller deload + small steps
- Did I improve?
- Can't fall asleep
- Overhead Press - Triceps Pain
- Protocol for Missing Workouts
- very low carb diets and strength
- Soreness in quads during workout
- Hook Grip
- Wanna Bet?
- A whole mess o' form checks
- Help with Stalling Early/Am I NDTP?
- Just starting, any tips?
- No squats at my gym?
- Powerclean sets/reps on 5-3-1
- The RTX— rapid thermal exchange—cooling device
- Problem with balance at overhead PRESS
- When did you start microloading your press?
- Persisten shoulder problems w/ bench press
- Looking for Suggestions on Reset or Lengthening Rest Interval for LP Novice SS
- Got a problem that prevents you from training? Check out this video.
- Article on body temperature regulation and its relevance to training
- Doggcrapp training
- Want to focus on my bench press for a while
- No bench, floor press or weighted pushup as alternative?
- 1 year progression on Starting Strength
- Belt at 270?
- Squat Technique and Hip Flexors
- Two quick questions
- ab roller
- A terrible temptation to overtrain....
- Best ab/oblique exercises for strength (intelligent discussion). Inspired by Konstati
- Tommy Suggs is coming to Texas State University
- Just started Starting Strength, don't have enough weights for deadlift.
- How much of your DL can you RDL?
- First time doing powercleans - how much weight to start with?
- Planning an actual cut
- The bowflex
- Racking Weight from Squat Issue
- Flat feet
- Body Fat Estimation Thread
- B&R Bar Info / Rogue Customer Service Props
- alternative to lifting shoes
- Training Mask for High Altitude
- 'Olympic Press' is a pointless (3rd edition Starting Strength)
- Power Meet
- muscle ups
- Do you break your chalk blocks?
- No Bumper Plates
- Some photos from my first powerlifting meet.
- Arthur Jones and H.I.T.
- Flat Feet : Restricted Ankle Mobility
- What year were sit-ups invented?
- Did I miss the sarcasm?
- Coaching in Phoenix/Chandler Arizona
- Squatting Barefoot
- Another thug assault on elderly man walking in park
- Can only feel the deadlift in my lower back/quads, never glutes or hamstrings
- Squat form check
- Squatting on the toilet
- SS:BBT3 Excerpt : Pulling Mechanics
- coming back after being sick?
- need a few Squat and BOR pointers
- Yet another: thugs knock out 'older' man on Chicago Subway platform
- Woman squats 325 pounds for 14 repetitions
- question about shoulder health
- The Morbidly Obese Lifter and the Original Program
- How much can you GM?
- SS:BBT3 Excerpt : Learning to Press
- Shoulder dislocation exercise
- Race to 300lb OHP
- Thickbar training
- okay, my back isn't getting better
- All time biggest IPF squat - high bar style
- Microloading 0.5 lb. plates
- SS:BBT3 Excerpt : Pulling Mechanics, 2
- Shoulder/arm/elbow pain
- Shoulder Rehab
- Aspiring MMA figher been running WSBB type routine, might switch to SS.
- Are there any companies in Canada that sell equipment that isn't complete garbage?
- Extra Day of Rest After Workout A?
- Front squats as assistance in 5/3/1
- Black iron gym close to Ann Arbor, MI?
- Mixed grip survey - which way feels more comfortable? Which way is stronger?
- Geezer wins
- New on SS (kinda) looking for a general comment
- Lower back fatigue
- I have calisthenics questions.
- Callouses
- USAPL King of Prussia meet, Dec 3-4, 2011
- Noisy knees
- Just started .. now knee pain
- Lifting on the second floor.
- Deadlift / Press Form Checks
- Anger
- Long time between exercises
- New to SS
- Am I done with SS?
- Cutting for a Vacation?
- Only making progress every other workout - need more sleep? move to weekly gains?
- Purchasing plates online
- Squat form check
- Bench not progressing
- Older Beginner to Regular Strength Training: Looking for Routine Tips and Advice
- How can I tell if I am making appropriate progress?
- Post Starting Strength
- Jordan bar
- How do you deal with not hitting all your reps in your sets?
- Training with a Flu?
- Shoes (training)
- Brazilian Strongman
- 770 Deadlift Near Miss, 715x2, 410x31 w/no belt, straps (age 20)
- Competition bar thickness
- Assistance exercises
- Caleb Ward returns
- My Skinny legs are stuggling with the Squat...advice please.
- Modifying weightlifting shoes?
- Question about power cleans
- Chin-up/pull-up difference?
- Valor power racks
- Squatting with a shim
- 3x5 to estimate 1rm
- Gym Equipment
- Weightlifting shoes and calf raises
- Texas Method
- Leangains people, any advice?
- Spreading the basic SS program over more days
- Plate weight tolerances
- Kirk Karwoski Training Footage
- 1 month into SS, my progress
- 1 month SS progress 16yo
- 1st Timer Here
- Goals
- Advanced Novice and Deadlift
- Bombed 300
- Books:
- Tough Mudder
- Black iron gyms in Northern Virginia?
- Everything is backwards in Australia (Squat form check)
- Rfl
- cant squat with heel's on the ground
- Belts
- 2011 Rogue Shoe Sizing
- Bench Question
- feeling like failing but not
- Well, Damn.
- American Open Men's 94 kg class
- Mobility
- Warm-up sets
- Sciatica triggered lifting, even light! Docs not giving MRI, referring to PT!
- Trying to put together a home gym
- Getting mom to train
- Hand gripper training on off days
- strength imbalances?
- 405 squat by 12/31/11....possible?
- Belted DL
- Easy Crushing Grip Training [Without Grippers]
- Shoulders at the bottom of a chin/pullup?
- What's wrong with my lower back?
- Wingate testing
- Why my squats are stalling so sooooooon??
- Doing modified SS at maintenance
- Have you seen this !!!!!!!!!!!! Rage
- South American powerlifting on the rise
- Are weightlifting shoes worth it? Can I squat safely wthout them?
- Recommendation for an Olympic lift bar
- Olympic Lifting in Dallas
- stuck in a crisis on lifting during track
- Back extensions and their substitutes
- Am I a Novice still?
- Training the neck, high repetitions?
- Doing dips explosively
- raw lifting
- when to do cardio?
- Improving distance running in the short term
- What's Wrong With CrossFit? Check Out My Page On Facebook!
- Too Much Bicep?
- Patellar Tendonitis?
- Help me solve my weird back pain, please
- Based on my stats, what category lifter would you say I am?
- an economical, but solid bench to use with a power rack?
- The squat rack: Supply and demand....
- Taking a long time to squat
- Volume day
- Easy Strength by Dan John
- What's better for upper back thickness?
- Another Lower Back Pain Thread
- Something that I noticed today
- Utilizing Intuitive Training
- Posterior knee/ Popliteus / medial meniscus/ deep squatting
- What's better for spine erectors thickness?
- Custom Power Rack Material?
- Belt
- Missing reps early on?
- Weird Deadlifting Day Lower Back Pain
- Whats better for dick thickness?
- Contreras T-Nation Bench Article
- To progress or not to progress
- Training Olympic lifts – not usual back pain.
- Goals for 2012
- No Energy for Workouts
- bench press bar
- Coming Back From Surgery
- gyms in Houston TX?
- The York Barbell Series - Exhibitions I & II
- Strength Training Seniors
- Strength Training and Stroke Recovery
- Kirk Karwoski
- The Year in Strength Science 2011
- Just started SS
- Travelliing and Looking for Gym in Phoenix
- Hello / New to thread
- The end of SS?
- Rest Period Difference Between Exercises
- IPA Meet in York, PA March 3, 2012
- Feeling faint and light headedf only on Press work sets