Ask Rip #41

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.5 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Mark Rippetoe and Starting Strength Seminar Staff Coaches answer questions from seminar participants about supplements, training people who are in pain, awesome lifters from the 80s, and why commercial gyms haven't embraced Starting Strength. -------------------------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aVwL8_DUZBE 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	When you showed the videos of these great weight lifters, about 50 years ago, did you know Dennis Yachtledge?
0:17.0	I know the name.
0:19.0	I used to work out at his gym. Really?
0:21.6	Back then I used to have...
0:23.6	Yeah, he was a power lifter back in the 80s.
0:27.6	I remember him.
0:28.6	And a bodybuilder.
0:29.6	Yeah.
0:30.6	And I'm talking about actual strength feats that you actually witnessed.
0:36.6	Back then the world record in the bench press was $6.50.
0:40.4	And Dennis was cutting back from, he weighed about it.
0:43.7	Well, before that, it was 7-Eleven.
0:46.5	Jim Williams did 7-Eleven.
0:49.7	I just don't know if that was in a, I don't know the actual status of that record.
0:54.4	Do you remember?
0:58.2	Who?
0:59.6	Williams benched 700.
1:01.4	711 and a T-shirt.
1:04.3	Well, back then I remember it was like 6.50.
1:06.4	Yachtlich was real strong guy, though, yeah.
1:08.7	Yeah.
1:09.2	And that's a question I'm going to post you.
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