@cain_elenbaas even lon kilgore, who co-wrote starting strength, seems to have disassociated himself from rippetoe.
all you need to know about rippetoe's quality/knowledge of coaching is how he describes the first pull of a clean as exactly the same as a deadlift. and i have yet to see a...
@mike24 i haven't done it yet, but will this week. i intend to scale and will finish it however long it takes, my guess it will be about 25 mins.
cheers OP. props for doing it, props for coming so close. i'd be so glad to have your level of fitness/
@kennybest I honestly feel I was scammed. If some see some value...great...but I have a sour taste in my mouth just thinking about it.
Agree the free stream is top notch.
@jermyn reducing volume is certainly one way to do this. but your implication that a full deload presumes a loss of fitness. this is simply not true at all. it takes quite a bit longer than a week to do that.
Indeed, much of what we do is called "dual factor training" where we work out...
@ttcmacro Deadlifts no. Squats yes.
The thing with deadlifts is that as the weight gets heavy, form inevitably suffers. And this means shearing stress on the spine. For some transparency, I deadlifted heavy ..got up to 450 at age 55 and body weight of 150,..I now have chronic lower back...
@jonjones229 Migala super impressive. I was ridiculed in this sub a few years ago for suggesting she would surpass Haley Adams among the up and comers. Wow.
Tough to predict podium...too many contenders!
@space769 i recall opt from the early days. the man seemed rather dumb to me. i mean actually low IQ dumb. in later days, what struck me about opt was how his athletes seemed to cheat in the open...stuff like using 5lb weights for barbell burpees.
and of course there is opt and his training...