Ask Rip #60
Starting Strength Radio
Mark Rippetoe
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So I recently started helping a guy, |
| 0:02.0 | and he's, I think he's early 40s, |
| 0:05.0 | and if you look at the guy, I mean, he just looks really muscular, |
| 0:08.0 | whatever. He's never touched a barbell. It's all machine work. |
| 0:11.0 | He goes to the Y every morning, does pyramids steam up, |
| 0:14.0 | and like he has his deltoids or not, it's just weird, |
| 0:18.0 | but he has no flexibility. And I don't know if you, have you ever run across somebody that's going from machines to the barbell? |
| 0:26.6 | Like you can't get him into the bottom of the squat? |
| 0:28.6 | I mean, he just, and he's not a fuss, but I mean, it's like he's almost going to cry, |
| 0:33.6 | trying to get his arms with a squat, and he's like, man, just but he says he did have a shoulder injury when he was a kid and he said he broke his shoulder and they didn't repair it or something oh that's bullshit I mean just in general body wise he just is it just giving the rack position or can he not get into the bottom of the squat? |
| 0:55.7 | He can get to the bottom of the squat. |
| 0:57.3 | That's not because he never does legs. |
| 1:00.6 | Like I said, he's... |
| 1:01.7 | Hey, Jeff, I think you're wasting your time. |
| 1:05.0 | I got him in my mom talking in to picking up a barbell, so I'm pretty happy about that. |
| 1:09.5 | Are you charging him? |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.7 | Well, why don't you're charging him to do whatever you want to do? |
| 1:16.2 | Then you need to, you know, let it be as well as it needs you to get it into the correct spot, |
| 1:21.1 | and then you need to get him to the bottom spot. |
| 1:23.0 | If you've got some authority over the guys, |
| 1:26.0 | and you can make him do this program for three or four weeks, |
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