Arizona Seminar Q&A, 2
Starting Strength Radio
Mark Rippetoe
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Neurological adaptations are pretty limited. |
| 0:10.0 | They happen fast. |
| 0:12.0 | Are these people that hold, that have tremendous relative strength, |
| 0:18.0 | are they just genetic freaks then? |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah. You don't walk into the gym and take your, as I explained Friday night, |
| 0:26.6 | you don't take your vertical from 22 to 38. |
| 0:30.6 | That doesn't occur. |
| 0:33.6 | Right? |
| 0:34.6 | One of the silliest things that I ever saw associated with CrossFit was this |
| 0:40.5 | I don't even remember that guy's name he was up in Seattle that wrote some kind of a |
| 0:47.6 | standards table for all the fundamental movements for fundamental movements and and you |
| 1:01.0 | know exercise testing prescription and he said that a beginner had a 12 inch |
| 1:06.9 | vertical jump and intermediate had an 18 inch vertical jump and an advanced |
| 1:12.9 | lifter had a had a 24 to 36 inch vertical jump and then the lead athlete had a 32 |
| 1:21.1 | inch vertical jump and it's like he actually said that you could develop that |
| 1:27.0 | that right He actually said that you could develop that. |
| 1:28.3 | That's amazing. |
| 1:33.3 | Did you say you agree? |
| 1:34.3 | That would be great. |
| 1:35.3 | That would be great. |
| 1:36.3 | The only problem with that is it doesn't occur. |
| 1:40.3 | We used to tell this story in the, usually like the 6 o'clock lecture, but the Bulgarians before communism fell would pick their athletes by going into the schools. |
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