Ask Rip #53: Highly Relevant Shit

[Mark Rippetoe]

Ask Rip #53 | Starting Strength Channel

[Scaldrew]

I'm definitely doing my part. Just got back from teaching a girlie girl how to power clean and it went really well. Hope the Starting Strength University (trademark pending) will have some form of an online only deal so I can participate. If not, I'll just have to save up the money and drag my ass on a plane, hopefully in the not too distant future. The latter was plan A to begin with, but I'd love for it to be plan B for the time being.

[Pluripotent]

I like the idea of doing it on your own schedule. For people with work commitments, this could be a good way to get the cert. For instance, I have a week on, week off schedule, so it wouldn't be possible to follow a group that was working through 5 weeks of material straight through.

[TarzanMoosefart]

I'm already headed to a seminar but I have ZERO coaching experience. I'm going to the seminar just to get a better grasp on the material and get better at my own lifts. But down the road I'd like to get the cert and coach a few people on the side in a home gym or something. I'd definitely be interested in the online lessons.

[Leanne M. Lloyd]

Scaldrew, you will still have to come to a seminar to test for the certification. The educational component is just to help you be better prepared when you test - it is not a completion = certification course. At least this was my understanding from the full discussion we had at the seminar.

I like the idea of being able to go at your own pace for the totality of the material as well, Pluripotent. However, the format that Nick proposed, I assume would be cheaper and therefore accessible to more people. If it were a true "at your own pace", then logistically it would probably have to be 100% SSC reviewed, which would (and should) cost more.

[Scaldrew]

I know and attending a seminar is definitely something I want to do in the next 3-5 years. It would just help my current plebeian coaching practices if I could participate in this, though I suppose learning about anatomy, chemistry, biology, physics, and global warming will all help my coaching skills, too. Maybe look at some gardening and zoology while I'm at it.

[Lynette]

This is very exciting, I'm a SSOC client currently and have learned so much that I can't stop thinking I want to bring this method to my patients instead of constantly referring them to crap physiotherapy and prescribing pain killers, only for them to to back a month later moaning at me again. I've never coached anyone, but I'm pretty sure I could. I will get over for a seminar in the next year or 2 before I start trying to coach anyone, but before that I will re-read both books again, and am waiting on a delivery of The Barbell Prescription. Its hard to get a paperback copy in the UK.
Anything online would be warmly welcomed by those of us outside the USA, can't wait to see what develops.