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Ask Rip #54

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.5768 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Mark Rippetoe and Starting Strength Seminar Staff Coaches answer questions from seminar attendees regarding the management of training while under massive external stress, doctor recommendations against lifting weights, and why logical, methodical strength training hasn't taken hold in collegiate strength and conditioning programs. ------------------­--------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/krvbdYIuJAg 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

Matt.

0:12.0

My question is for Jordan.

0:15.0

Oh, yeah.

0:16.0

All right.

0:17.0

Keep it short.

0:18.0

Okay.

0:19.0

This gets out of hand rapidly.

0:21.6

As a medical doctor, is there like a class at medical school that they teach that tells

0:30.3

people not to lift?

0:31.9

Because when I told my doctor what I, when he asked, what do you do for fitness?

0:36.2

And I said, well, I'm on this, of weightlifting, powerlifting program, squat, deadlift.

0:43.0

He goes, oh, no, no, no.

0:44.8

I was 32, and he goes, you are way too old to be working out like that.

0:51.2

I mean, is there something they teach you guys?

0:56.2

No, so the formal training in exercise for physicians is nil. So that's true. That being said, we are exposed to... You're hearing

1:02.2

his personal bias, in other words. Right. That's what I want. So, yeah, the, the, we are

1:07.6

exposed to guidelines and as far as, as okay, here the current recommendations.

1:11.1

So for instance, 2010, the American College of Sports Medicine, despite all my disagreements

1:15.3

with them at large, put out the first physical activity guidelines for adults, which includes

1:20.1

twice weekly resistance training with progressive overload, twice weekly vigorous cardiorespiratory

1:24.9

activity, which would be high-intensity interval training, or you could do four times per week of moderate intensity cardiac respiratory training.

1:31.4

Now I don't love that, but it's certainly better than, oh yeah, just go walk or just don't

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