Ask Rip #36 | Things people who take care of themselves don't do

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Mark Rippetoe

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

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🗓️ 14 November 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Rip discusses cheap coffee, cheap beer, other things that people who take care of themselves avoid. Questions about Rip's current training, how the teaching methods have changed, and how to educate your spotters are also answered. ----------------------------------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/N3Pd-41ri9Q 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	So that's kind of a good segue into my question. So I'm in my early 50s.
0:16.0	I'm in my early 50s. You're a child. What's that? You're just a child. Yes, 52.
0:21.6	Child.
0:22.6	Been strength training for about three years.
0:25.6	My numbers continue to go up.
0:27.6	That's really good.
0:29.6	Assuming no injuries, assuming continued training, appropriate programming, is there a timeframe what I should expect those numbers
0:39.3	to plateau or decline?
0:42.3	Well, no, no, there's not a, well, there's a timeframe that applies to everybody.
0:46.3	How long can you stay a novice, intermediate, advanced lifter, continuing to make progress progress if you start when you're 20
0:56.0	probably 20 years then you're going to enter a phase where you're just hanging on to
1:02.0	some pretty good lifts and then believe it or not you're going to get hurt
1:07.0	you're going to start to accumulate injuries and your training is going to fall off and
1:11.6	God help you you'll be in my situation before it's over with it's all beat up and just
1:19.3	trying to stave off death right but that's just a natural history of of what happens with somebody this
1:31.2	training heart now you're not doing a bunch of stupid shit like I was
1:37.9	doing so it could very assuming you're not anyway and you you are probably not gonna you know go out and have motorcycle
1:48.7	wrecks and get thrown off a bunch of horses and rolled around on top of and
1:54.3	shit and you know that kind of thing that that that contributes to right but uh you're 52 you'll be
2:08.6	you'll be set in PRs till you're in your 60s you'll probably be deadlifting over 400 in your 70s
2:16.6	yeah you're you're You'll probably be deadlifted over 400 in your 70s.
2:23.3	You're doing the right thing. So just don't plan to fail.
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