I've used the protocol for a few times now, as unfortunately I get injured very often.
The last time I got hurt doing squats with 235 pounds, and I did the following:
day 0 - injury
day 2 - 65 x 25
day 3 - 90 x 20
day 4 - 110 x16
day 5 - 130 x14
day 8 - 150 x12
day 9 - 170 x 11
day 10 - 180 x9
day 12 - 190 x8
day 13 - 200 x7
day 15 - start again training with 205 x5 x5
As you can see, it's not exactly done in the way Rip describes it. The main difference is that I did not squat every day for two weeks, because I just didn't have the time.
Hope this helps,
IPB
Hi,
I think it's better you provide more info about the type of injury you have... as far as I can remember, the method Starr proposes are not for chronic injuries, so it would be better if you provide more info.
Regarding Starr's method, it calls doing high number of repetitions (25) adding slowly weight as the number of repetitions decrease, saving energy in doing the exercises recommended and taking care of nutrition and rest, applying also RICE method.
I really recommend you to get the book The Strongest Shall Survive, it has 2 chapters covering it, the first is introductory to injury and so, and the second in the book is more specific depending on the type of injury...
Just made a quick search in google, and found a link pointing to the wikia article:
http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wi...r_Muscle_Pulls
To give you an example in the case of a problem with your knees, as in this article it talks about squat, in Starr's book, it starts by recommending to do natural squats, before even using the bar, till you get a number of repetitions (100 though), starting with 3 series of 25 repetitions spaced in the day and then move up till the number expected, and then move to the bar.
Hope it's of any use to you. Regards,