Ask Rip #33 | Adaptation, not Supercompensation

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Mark Rippetoe

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

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🗓️ 25 October 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The difference between adaptation and supercompensation, how it's possible that Division 1 strength coaches are so bad, and why the program isn't for everyone. Mark Rippetoe answers questions from Starting Strength Seminar attendees at Testify Strength and Conditioning in Omaha, NE. ----------------------------------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yL2WWqaJDnQ WEBSITE: http://startingstrength.com FORUM: http://startingstrength.com/resources/forum/ STORE: http://aasgaardco.com Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AasgaardCo Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SS_strength Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Starting-Strength-The-Aasgaard-Company/142424022490628 ----------------------------

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0:00.0	Dave.
0:11.8	This graph we have behind us.
0:16.8	We talked about this fuzziness with something I'd never really experienced or heard of before.
0:22.3	Is that?
0:22.7	Well, that's because we just figured it out last week.
0:25.2	That's good.
0:27.3	Is the wideness of the fuzziness area, if you will, the reason why you may be able to jump 10 or 15 pounds initially on a squatter deadlift for a novice and then it starts to taper rather quickly.
0:37.2	Exactly. Exactly. The concept you starts to taper rather quickly. Exactly.
0:38.3	The concept you're trying to convey here?
0:39.3	Exactly.
0:40.3	The concept I'm trying to convey is that a biological organism can't do a super compensation calculation
0:52.3	and that's a silly way to phrase what's actually going on.
0:58.0	What's happening is that adaptation is a broad phenomenon at first.
1:07.0	And then the more and more adapted an organism gets the narrower that adaptation
1:13.6	becomes all right just like and you can go ahead and sit down if you want to
1:19.3	continue to talk you don't just stand up and answer the question ask well you
1:25.0	can stand up if you want but the, so the idea is that we all know that the stronger a guy is, the stronger you are,
1:35.3	the harder it is to get even stronger.
1:39.3	And the weaker you are, the easier it is that any physical stress you experience makes you stronger.
1:50.0	Right? As we've often said, when you first start training, riding a bicycle makes your bench press go up.
1:58.0	Because you're so thoroughly unadaptive.
2:03.6	So anything that heads you in the direction of adaptation is going to produce a response within
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