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Ask Rip #48

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.5768 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Rip answers questions during a Starting Strength Squat Camp on the popularity of Starting Strength, the best way to get others to follow the program, and why higher reps don't work for getting unstuck. ------------------­--------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5U0Ew_FWhwY 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

How do you get women off the treadmill and under the bar?

0:15.0

I don't know.

0:18.0

They come in here, they already come in here off the treadmill and under the mark.

0:21.6

So, I don't know, I think they have to have friends that lift weights like you,

0:28.6

that aren't the nasty steroid-looking creatures like they see on the store.

0:33.6

I'll tell you what the problem is, is the weeder organization, printed all those magazines

0:40.3

with Kim Chezhyevsky on the fucking front cover. And then we gotta have this big conversation

0:46.3

with our girlfriends about, no, honey, you're not gonna look like this, you're not gonna

0:51.3

look like you play from the NFL. That girl's taking steroids.

0:56.2

If you don't take steroids, you'll be okay. Right? You don't want to have to have that

1:01.9

conversation. And it's the pictures in the muscle magazines is what did it. I think they've pretty

1:07.5

much moderated that.

1:13.5

I go to shop at Walmart.

1:15.6

Walmart doesn't have the muscle magazines at the cash register,

1:17.9

like all the grocery stores used to have.

1:19.9

15, 20 years ago,

1:21.1

you had to have this conversation

1:22.3

because these girls would see these big roided out bodybuilder chicks.

1:28.3

Well, yeah, on Instagram.

1:30.3

Do what?

1:31.3

Oh, they do on Instagram.

1:33.3

I've never seen one in a Walmart.

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