A Doctor's Opinion on Strength Training for Aging Women | Starting Strength Gyms Podcast #19

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Mark Rippetoe

Training, Fitness & Nutrition, Strength, Barbell, Health, Fitness

4.6 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ray Gillenwater and Denise, a member of Starting Strength Boise, talk about her motivation for starting strength training, what recommendations were made years ago for strength training, and her medical opinion of using Starting Strength as preventative medicine. 02:10 Denise's motivation for coming to Starting Strength Boise 02:53 Denser bones from strength training 04:22 Recommendations for strength training years ago 05:17 A medical doctor's point of view of the Starting Strength program 07:38 The squat and the posterior chain 12:36 Denise's barbell weight goals 15:42 Capabilities, abilities, and bone density change after starting the program 20:26 Medical opinion of Starting Strength as preventative medicine 23:20 Demystifying barbells for older women

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0:00.0	Hey folks, it's Pete Troopers. The World's OK as starting strength coach here to talk to a few things before this episode.
0:04.5	New gyms keep getting added to the list, but our current holdup is being able to fill them with starting strength certified coaches.
0:12.3	And since we won't lower our standard for coaching, we're going to grow our own.
0:16.2	There's plenty of apprenticeship opportunities out there currently and in upcoming gyms.
0:21.7	So if you're interested,
0:26.6	head over to starting strength gyms.com. Click on the coach tab, fill out the form so you can speak to a recruiter in a cappel, and she'll let you know what opportunities are available. There's also
0:30.8	a map there to show you what's on the board and what's coming up. Along with that, we have our
0:35.7	coaches prep course. It's an online preparatory
0:38.4	course that's a design to help get you ready for the starting strength coach certification. It's
0:42.8	open to any level. You're assigned a starting strength coach mentor. You'll have to go through
0:48.1	23 different modules, including academic written assignments as well as coaching assignments,
0:53.1	where you film yourself
0:54.5	coaching different aspects of the lift and get real feedback from a starting strength coach
0:58.8	mentor it's a great opportunity to learn for somebody that is not able to coach in a starting
1:03.5	strength gym or somebody that is becoming an apprentice it is a great compendium to the apprenticeship
1:08.9	program so to check that out hover to starting strength.com and check out the coaching tab,
1:13.0	and you'll find the prep course information there.
1:15.3	Lots of opportunity on the horizon, folks,
1:16.8	so don't miss out.
1:18.2	Enjoy the episode.
1:19.7	Mildly entertaining, somewhat obscure guests,
1:24.1	relatively interesting topics,
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