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- Great video visualizing why we shouldn't flex our back under load
- Back Angle and Spinal Position | Mark Rippetoe
- Squat nausea as body's coping mechanism.
- A Lifter's Guide To Travel | Carl Raghavan
- New and very annoying shoulder problem from squat
- Baseline Strength, Hamstring Injuries, and Enhanced Games | SS Radio #251
- Old Obese Client - Get Back Set
- Prioritizing Health with Strength Training
- Mike Davis Talks Trains | Starting Strength Radio #252
- What should I do before getting my testosterone tested?
- The Starting Strength Method and Exercise Science | Mark Rippetoe
- The Outcome or The Process? | Mark Rippetoe
- Move on from NLP (lower body)?
- Are Your J-Hooks Too Low? | Zohar Yermiyahu
- Starting Strength vs. The Way Things Have Always Been Done | Starting Strength Radio
- TRT for young male
- Fix Your J-Hooks for the Bench Press | Zohar Yermiyahu
- Enter the Lifting Shoe
- Squat Depth | Mark Rippetoe
- Coming Back from a Motorcycle Accident Through Strength Training
- Surviving a Plane Crash and Living Life with Eva Twardokens | SS Radio #254
- Toughness | Jim Steel
- Weight Loss for the Lifter | Robert Santana
- The Role of Starting Strength Gyms in the Fitness Industry | SS Radio #255
- Pain in Shoulder and traps + Availability of weights to train correctly for some week
- The Barbell Curl in Strength Training | Mark Rippetoe
- Florida’s First Starting Strength Gym
- Fingerprints of the Gods, Bar Thickness, and Long-Legged Lifters | Starting Strength
- 6 Day Texas Method
- Stop Wasting Energy: Fix Your Press Setup Now! | Andrew Lewis
- Using the 15kg Barbell Correctly | Mark Rippetoe
- Old guy-tonnage question
- The "Special Populations" Myth | Starting Strength Radio #257
- Occupational shoulder flexibility
- Biltong | Contemporary Texas Kitchen
- Meat | Jim Steel
- Who Am I? | Carl Raghavan
- Yet Another Squat Grip Video | Pete Troupos
- Q&A Episode - Rollerball, Protruding Guts, and Rogan | Starting Strength Radio #258
- A Brief History of Wichita Falls Athletic Club | Mark Rippetoe
- A Change of Perspective | Terry Brown
- Excuses | Jim Steel
- Charlotte
- Haddock with Blue Cheese Sauce | Contemporary Texas Kitchen
- Timeless and Re-watchable Movies | Starting Strength Radio #259
- Would you spot someone benching with a false grip?
- Dumbbells | Mark Rippetoe
- Strength Loss
- The time has come. My clothes no longer fit.
- Limited Time
- Still Getting Stronger at 80
- The best white rice
- best way to incorporate conditioning into SS
- Laws of Stupidity, Goals, and Being a Good Grandson | Starting Strength Radio #260
- 70yo Mom finally wants to work out
- 4 day split
- Heavy sandbag training after NLP
- Your Training Log | Mark Rippetoe
- I’m an imbecile. Pulled abductor?
- Using an Exercise for Drilling or Learning | Andrew Lewis
- Late Night with the Devil, Visiting the Past, and More | Starting Strength Radio #261
- A Guide to Getting and Recovering from a Hip Replacement | Matt Lorig
- First Competition, Illness, Humility & Motivation
- Tooth stains. Milk to blame?
- Training Isn’t a Template | Carl Raghavan
- Progression questions
- Building Stronger Bonds: The Neves Family at Starting Strength Orlando
- Defining Strength Training | Starting Strength Radio #262
- The Value of Blind Rage | Jim Steel
- The Olympic Lifts and Strength Training | Starting Strength Radio #263
- Bodyweight squat technique practice
- A noticed personal phenomenon
- Lightheaded/dizziness and light nausea after training
- Right Now! | James Collinge
- My Tangle With Tendinopathy | Rob Broulliard
- Sloppiness is Costing You Weight On the Bar
- Form Checks with Rip | Starting Strength Radio #264
- Transitioning from pure strength training
- Lat Pop
- The Role of Strength Training for Parents of Autistic Kids | Terry Brown
- Critical Technique Elements – Part 4: The Bench Press | Andrew Lewis
- Chasing the Leaderboard: It's More Than Just Reps and Sets
- Narrowcasting, Rip's Nasal Routine, and Twitter | Starting Strength Radio #265
- What can I expect?
- Making It Work in a Commercial Gym | Deborah Lebl
- Diary of a Psychosis with Tom Woods | Starting Strength Radio #266
- Thoughts on accessory work
- Exercise before NLP
- GOMAD doesn't work for me
- Weigh Your Plates! | Mark Rippetoe
- The Gifted, and The Rest of Us | Jim Steel
- Don't Blame Your Deadlift on Your Shoes | Joe Jaloszynski and Mark Rippetoe
- From Under-Muscled to Strength Gains: Lynzee’s Transformation
- Language Changes in the Media with Trevor Rachko | Starting Strength Radio #267
- Is there a way to do more deadlifts?
- Five Years On: Why I’m Still a Member at Starting Strength Dallas | Tom Brunell
- The Mechanics of Barbell Training | Mark Rippetoe
- GOMAD or POBAD?
- Stop Wearing Your Wrist Wraps Wrong | Nick Delgadillo
- Training with a hernia
- Complexity, Making Rip Laugh, and Our Feelings | Starting Strength Radio #268
- Pull ups and chin ups hurts my inner elbow, should I do reverse tyler twists?
- Avoid Squat Wrecks: Unracking and Racking Tips | Mark Rippetoe
- Training my teen.
- If looking bigger is the goal...
- Double progression more appropriate for upper body lifts?
- Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? | Chris Olson
- How Starting Strength Beat My Arthritis
- Evolution of Military Fitness Training w/ Grunt Proof | Starting Strength Radio #269
- Assistance work offsets
- The Search | Jim Steel
- Bicycling and the X Factor | Chris Ronan
- What would you do?
- Zero Before You Lift | Stef Bradford
- Deal With Your Back Pain | Starting Strength Radio #270
- No One Likes an Unexpected Load | Mark Rippetoe
- What do yall consider long distance
- When the Barbell Hates You Back: A Neurotic Lifter’s Survival Guide | Bre Acosta
- The Non-Negotiables | Jim Steel
- Try These Tips to Master Your First Bodyweight Chin-Up! | Ricky Pinney
- Stop Worrying About Your Weight, Star Wars, and More | Starting Strength Radio #271
- Getting Your Lifters to Hit Depth | Andrew Lewis
- Help!
- The Total State with Auron MacIntyre | Starting Strength Radio #272
- Lombard’s paradox and Hip Drive
- Pork Butt | Contemporary Texas Kitchen
- Firefighting and The Two Factor Model | Grant Shymske
- Strength in Adversity: Keep Your Head Up
- Can you bruise or strain your humurus performing the bench press?
- Taking Statins, Monolift Bench, and Music | Starting Strength Radio #273
- First Powerlift Competition USPA looking for advice.
- What do you consider short arms for deadlift
- Don’t Be a Spaz: Deadlift Bar Lowering Tips | Mark Rippetoe
- The Barbell Row | Carl Raghavan
- Training Hard for When Hard Times Get Harder | Starting Strength Radio #274
- Failing lifts extremely early NLP
- Weight gain and NLP
- Deadlift Variations and Active Recovery
- Shoe shim material
- Never Too Late | Jim Steel
- Training grip strength on NLP
- The Making of a Starting Strength Coach: Power of Perseverance
- Already failed squats after two weeks and might have injured myself
- Is this a cult?
- I am scared
- Hip drive impossible on high bar
- Does Linear progression actually end?
- Finish Your Deadlift: The Last Five Percent
- The Clear Path | Jim Steel
- At the Movies with Rip | Starting Strength Radio #276
- Reset Your Deadlift | Mark Rippetoe
- HLM back off sets vs light and medium day
- The Barbell Row: A Clarification | Michael Jones
- Life Changing Applications of The Novice Linear Progression
- Barbell hip thrusts
- A Physical Therapist’s Perspective on Starting Strength
- Do you include bodyweight when calculating percentages for weighted dips or pull-ups
- Quad tendonitis rehab/recovery
- The Olympics, Prison, and Trap Bar | Starting Strength Radio #277
- Burst Blood Vessels/Bruising on Hips Post Squatting
- Newer lifter question
- Training in bare feet: a cautionary tale
- 3 workouts/week or YNDTP?
- Horizontal force production
- 6 Tips to Help Load and Unload Your Deadlifts | Phil Meggers
- The Market Ticker Chronicles: Four Years of American Turmoil | SS Radio #278
- Setting expectations for prospective clients?!
- A Home Gym May Be in Your Immediate Future | Mark Rippetoe
- The Importance of Using Safeties in the Squat and Bench Press | Zohar Yermiyahu
- Opinions on this power tower?
- Real-Time Coaching for Real Results
- Villain Empathy, Pediatric Vaccines, and Changing Your Fate | Starting Strength Radio
- How to Sit on a Box and Call It a Squat | Mark Rippetoe
- Paradigm Change | Zachary Millunchick
- Question for Drs Nichols and/or Whitmer - TRT
- Advanced Programming without a light day
- Crushing Pain and Getting Gains: The Doc and The Finance Jock
- Safety in a Barbell Training Gym | Mark Rippetoe
- Why Proximity Matters: Mastering Bar Control in the Press | Mark Rippetoe
- Calculating Pounds Based off Age/Height/Weight
- Is this guy legit?
- Controlling the Controllables: Stress, Recovery, Adaptation | Starting Strength Radio
- Convincing Spouses to Strength Train
- Strength Standards and their Usefulness | Mark Rippetoe
- Lifting in the military
- A First-Principles Approach to Hypertrophy | Yago Ferreiros
- Why Strength is the Key to Longevity
- Is this the end of my NLP?
- Q&A Episode - No Sponsors, Strong SSCs, and Rip's Blood Type | SS Radio #283
- Unlearned movement patterns?
- Am I too advanced for the NLP?
- Stage 4 periodontal disease and training
- “Look Up To Go Up” and Other Lies We Tell Kids | Mark Rippetoe
- Gym Safety: Because Common Sense Isn’t That Common | Starting Strength Radio #284
- Regrets as a Novice Lifter | Deborah Lebl
- Beef Jerky
- The Back Angle in the Squat | Steve Ross
- Deadlifts before squats
- From Tumor to Triumph: Rediscovering Strength Through Barbell Training
- Haulting dl to reinforce setting back
- The Secret to a Powerful Press | Mark Rippetoe
- Bodyweight dips after we can do 30+ reps?
- Testosterone dose question
- How should chinups be programmed in the advanced novice LP once you can do 20 chins?
- The Belt and Your Training | Mark Rippetoe
- From Surgery on Both Feet to Crushing Weights
- The Ineffective Fitness Industry | Starting Strength Radio #287
- Master Your Press: Practice Lowering for Control | Mark Rippetoe
- Programming a Smooth NLP | Scott Acosta
- Rip's Worst Advice, Passing Out, and Nicotine | Starting Strength Radio #288
- Strange incident while power cleaning
- Starting Strength Newbie & Test
- Gym Dogs | Mark Rippetoe
- Squat Warmups
- Starting Strength Beats Traditional "Fitness"
- Your Plan for Election Day | Mark Rippetoe
- New blender
- Progress update and power cleans
- Strength is a Second Job | Carl Raghavan
- The Jumping Position - Snatch vs. Clean | Stef Bradford and Josh Wells
- 510 183lbs (fat and low back pain)
- Next Starting Strength Radio Q&A - Drop your questions here
- Music in the Gym | Mark Rippetoe
- Recovering from a Back Tweak and Missing on the Squat