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Ask Rip #39

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.5768 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Continuing the seminar Q&A from the Starting Strength Seminar held at WFAC in December 2016. Rip answers questions about training frequency for older clients, what books every person should read, how to specialize in the press, and why conventional wisdom still dictates that "doing cardio" is the only way to get a good score on a military/police PT test. ------------------­--------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Po4XnvM7EQg 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

The other quick one is, which whiskey are you drinking this one?

0:14.0

Like, I only get one?

0:18.0

This weekend.

0:20.0

Yeah, we've got, we've got, we've got I only get one? This weekend.

0:26.4

Yeah, we've got, we've got, we've got, we've got two or three.

0:31.8

I brought one for you for tonight, called a winter night's grade, 16-year-old MGP ride.

0:37.9

Well, and I've got a 21 and a 22-year-old bottle of rhetoric open. I've got a 21 and a 22 year old bottle of rhetoric open.

0:42.8

I've got, what's that one?

0:46.2

The gifted horse, I got one of those.

0:53.0

There'll be, I've got, look, I've got 80 bottles at my house.

0:58.0

80 bottles. You're clearly not trying hard about it.

1:00.0

I'm trying pretty damn hard.

1:03.0

I got it culled down from about 130, so.

1:07.0

All right.

1:09.0

This is probably addressed in the new book

1:12.9

What you're planning on getting but can you discuss

1:15.2

Briefly for your older clients say 50s and 60s that you've trained

1:20.5

Going on years

1:21.8

What does life get in the way? What is the minimum

1:25.7

generalization speaking? What is the minimum timesization, speaking, what is the minimum times

1:29.2

they can train to maintain what you've built on? Those people I want twice a week.

1:33.8

Twice a week? Yeah. I don't really want them any more than twice a week. If they're over 60,

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