Fingerprints of the Gods, Bar Thickness, and Long-Legged Lifters | Starting Strength

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Rip answers questions from Starting Strength Network subscribers and fans.

• 02:13 Comments from the Haters!
• 10:41 Deadlifting without shoes
• 14:00 Importance of your vertical jump
• 26:48 Rip's thoughts on dips
• 28:44 Do good GPs exist?
• 33:44 Fingerprints of the Gods
• 40:39 Rack pulls and haltings
• 55:37 Bouncing the bar during bench press
• 56:41 Master and Commander
• 1:02:05 Long-legged lifters
• 1:05:45 Bar thickness

[Marc Brainich]

Rip, I think you’d also like the dozen novels in the Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester. Once I started I couldn’t put them down. And Adam Nicolson’s Seize the Day about Nelson and the battle of Trafalgar is great “cultural background,” which sounds boring but isn’t in his hands, he’s not an academic and is a sailor himself.