Ask Rip #44
Starting Strength Radio
Mark Rippetoe
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have any helpful advice or experience with training very old populations like people in their 80s and 90s? |
| 0:19.4 | Yeah. And we do that all the time. |
| 0:22.6 | All of us will, the time we've been doing this a couple of years, have had some 80-year-old |
| 0:29.6 | clients, 85 maybe even 90-year-old clients. |
| 0:32.6 | We've got people that specialize in that. |
| 0:35.6 | And what you do is, is you apply the same principles to them that get |
| 0:42.3 | applied to you you apply stress to them from which they can recover right yeah you |
| 0:52.0 | provide the tools for recovery you You have to feed them correctly. |
| 0:57.0 | Old people need better quality protein than young people do. |
| 1:01.0 | More of it, since they don't react as well to its absorption as far as muscle mass is concerned. |
| 1:09.0 | And then when they adapt to it, you select another stress |
| 1:13.6 | that will cause them to adapt and the process begins again. |
| 1:17.6 | Have you been able to... |
| 1:18.6 | This is what's wrong with most people's approach to training geriatric populations. |
| 1:23.6 | They don't apply that simple formula. Stress, recovery, adaptation. |
| 1:28.3 | That's what makes people stronger. |
| 1:30.3 | That's what makes people better anytime they get better. |
| 1:33.3 | A stress is applied. |
| 1:35.3 | They recover from the stress. |
| 1:37.3 | They adapt to the stress. |
| 1:38.3 | Then another stress is applied that causes the adaptation to accumulate. |
| 1:53.6 | So with old people, what you have to do is you have to figure out a way to stress them without killing them. |
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