Strength is Not SpecificWhat is the weight room for, anyway? by Mark Rippetoe | January 07, 2016 The current fad in modern strength and conditioning is to make the exercises look like the sport in which you plan to use the strength while performing. This has kept lots of collegiate and professional athletes from performing at a higher level... Continue reading
Hip Flexion vs Spinal FlexionLearning to hold the back rigid by Mark Rippetoe | December 31, 2015 In the deadlift, maintaining a rigid back is important both on the way up and when putting the bar down. Sometimes a brand new lifter will have difficulty understanding how to do this correctly because they haven’t ever needed to discern the difference between... Continue reading
Regaining Strength after Lyme DiseaseTen weeks of progress in two minutes by | December 24, 2015 What does a Starting Strength Linear Progression look like? If you have read the book, you know that small increases in weight for sets of five are the engine of the program. This slow, gradual, and effective increase in weight on the bar and the lifter may be a bore to watch on... Continue reading
Gaining Bodyweight Without GOMADWhen you're not a young, underweight, male by Cody Miller, SSC | December 17, 2015 Drinking a gallon of milk a day (GOMAD) is undeniably the most effective nutritional strategy for adding slabs of mass to young, underweight males. Milk is relatively cheap, painless to “prepare”, the macronutrient profile is very balanced, and calories are always easier to drink... Continue reading
Programming Halting DeadliftsBreaking up heavy pulls by Nick Delgadillo, SSC | December 10, 2015 Novice lifters, having the ability to go through a stress-recovery-adaptation cycle in 48 to 72 hours, will deadlift every session initially. As novices get stronger, they’ll alternate the deadlift with the power clean and eventually only deadlift once a week. Even as... Continue reading
