Arizona Q&A
Starting Strength Radio
Mark Rippetoe
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | But if you've got somebody that's in a chronic MS situation, a chronic flare-up, I don't know that I'd train that person. |
| 0:17.0 | I don't know that you can help her. I say there's a lot of room to make things worse. |
| 0:21.6 | Because her problem at this point is not strength, her problem is staying alive. |
| 0:27.6 | Right? I've never trained anybody in the MS. I've trained people with paralysis and things like there. |
| 0:36.6 | Sure. We've had MS patients in the gym before. |
| 0:40.3 | We're just careful with them. |
| 0:41.3 | There are all kinds of weird stuff. |
| 0:43.3 | But MS is a, if it's in the process of being, you know, actually flared up right now |
| 0:52.3 | on an active process against her nervous system. |
| 0:56.0 | She might not benefit from training. |
| 1:00.0 | Jeff, input. |
| 1:03.0 | I would be real scared to have a patient that had multiple sclerosis |
| 1:08.0 | on this kind of program unless they were really well controlled and it doesn't sound like she's well |
| 1:14.3 | controlled right because it would make the MS worse or because it's the probability it's |
| 1:18.4 | yeah I mean there are things you could do to mitigate that right so that if the injury |
| 1:23.6 | she could she could she could deadlift or rack pull she could leg press she could do things or she's not going to get hurt. |
| 1:29.3 | My question is more of if... |
| 1:31.3 | Yes. |
| 1:32.3 | Yes. |
| 1:33.3 | That's what we're talking about. |
| 1:35.3 | Because we can mitigate the injury risk. |
| 1:37.3 | Yeah. |
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