Ask Rip #47

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

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🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Rip answers questions on using a cambered bar, weightlifting shoes, heartburn and The US Strengthlifting Federation. --------------------------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/G_r4YOkMeak 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	Pros and cons of the Cambered Bar.
0:13.0	Don't use it.
0:15.0	Next question?
0:17.0	Next question.
0:19.0	That's all the questions you have. We got some good questions, but we're saving those for Alan to ask.
0:25.6	We're going to let Alan ask them.
0:27.6	You're going to make Alan ask the question.
0:30.6	So I don't know why you'd need a camber bar if you can use a straight bar.
0:36.6	Okay.
0:45.7	Because from one of, some of the stuff says it's, you know, lower, safer, can lift more weight, but does it disrupt your stuff? Why would you lift more weight?
0:48.2	The only thing, the only advantage would be that it doesn't roll.
0:55.0	Okay. Other than that, there's no advantage to it.
0:57.0	Does it have any different physics though?
0:59.0	No.
1:00.0	Okay.
1:01.0	No, it writes itself right over the, it hangs down and, you know, drops.
1:07.0	If you bend forward, it's going to kind of cam forward a little bit
1:12.6	but it'll end up right over the middle of your foot if you're in balance with it
1:18.6	because it has to I don't see any point in it okay all right okay on the back does it
1:25.6	matter if you get out of sync on the parallel level of the ball?
1:29.5	Yeah, it kind of needs to be as level as possible.
1:33.6	Now there are people with shoulder injuries that can't carry it level.
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