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Ask Rip #52

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.5768 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Rip discusses his motivation, the growth of Starting Strength, the P scale, and super secret Chinese lifter training methods. ------------------­--------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NXiwXGtTyMo 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

So Rip, what keeps you motivated to keep doing this to strength?

0:15.0

What makes you think I'm motivated?

0:17.0

Well, you keep doing it.

0:20.0

Well, I do keep doing it. What choice do I have?

0:22.6

I don't have another skill.

0:24.6

You know, got to do something for a living.

0:28.6

That makes sense.

0:30.6

Yeah, that's been real lucrative.

0:32.6

We're in high demand.

0:35.6

Oh, you know, I don't know. I kind of... We're in high demand.

0:40.3

Oh, I, you know, I don't know. I kind of just have an idea and I write it down.

0:44.3

You know, like this last week,

0:48.3

the article that went up Wednesday,

0:51.3

the functional training thing. Oh, you know, I guess probably the best answer

0:59.3

to that question would be what motivates me is probably anger. That probably, that's probably

1:09.1

the most honest response to that in the past few years

1:13.9

have you seen a higher or lower level of interest in either seminars or online

1:20.0

training and what are you doing to meet those demands over the next couple

1:25.9

years is anything change oh that sounds like a business plan, question.

1:29.3

Yeah.

1:30.3

We're just stumbling along here.

1:33.3

Yeah, we've, especially this year.

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