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Ask Rip #56

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.5768 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Starting Strength Seminar Staff Coaches and Mark Rippetoe answer questions about training for "Tactical Athletes", factors influencing the skewing of weight gain toward lean mass, and the important yet subtle influence of hard barbell training on psychological health. ------------------­--------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8zE3RSJZGqw 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 my question is about just body recomposition.

0:15.0

So to gain weight you have to gain muscle and fat and when you lose weight you lose muscle and fat.

0:20.0

What's going to skew in your favor to change your body composition? gain muscle and fat and when you lose weight you lose muscle and fat like what's

0:21.4

going to skew in your favor to change your body composition for the for the

0:25.9

positive nutrition training anabolic steroids like always what's

0:33.8

specifically about the nutrition aspect I I guess? Like, how?

0:39.3

Well, a lot of this is going to be.

0:42.3

See, you hurry, okay?

0:43.3

All right.

0:44.3

This is, since you deal with this every day on the board.

0:48.3

You ought to be able to do this in 30 words.

0:51.3

Ready?

0:52.3

I'm going to try.

0:53.3

Go. Got it. High fiber, high protein, pretty high carbohydrates, low to moderate fat.

1:02.6

Don't make rapid changes in body weight, unless you're very, very underweight, in which

1:07.1

case this question is not really addressing you. But if you are not not really really underweight and you're trying to gain muscle then you

1:13.2

shouldn't be gaining a lot of weight quickly in fact you know gaining four

1:16.8

pounds of muscle per month would be a great increase for somebody who's not a

1:21.7

novice any longer and who's not underweight okay so make your adjustments accordingly to carbohydrates and fat.

1:29.7

But in general, if you're higher protein and you're hitting 35 grams of fiber per day

1:33.9

and you're not eating a lot of dietary fat and that, you know, generally people do pretty

1:38.4

well. And I know I'm going to crucifide on the internet for saying, he said eat low

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