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Aesthetics vs Performance | Starting Strength Radio #214

Mark Rippetoe | May 26, 2023

Rip talks about how other fitness programs want you to focus on aesthetics and training muscle groups. Machines cannot produce enough systemic stress for growth. 

Performance-based training works better for aesthetics than training separate muscle groups on machines. The body works as a system of levers powered by contractile motors, “muscles.” None of the muscles function in isolation from the others. 

  • 01:44 Comments from the Haters!
  • 13:12 Starting Strength and aesthetics
  • 20:13 We aren’t bodybuilders, but the body gets built
  • 25:23 How to get bigger muscles
  • 31:12 Machines and barbells are not the same
  • 39:24 Getting bigger muscles is a side effect of getting strong
  • 47:12 Machines can’t make you gain weight
  • 52:14 People that train with machines 
  • 56:34 Your health

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