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Ask Rip #61

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.5768 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Rippetoe proposes that no one questions the SS method more than SS coaches and staff. Leg length discrepancies, strength imbalances, and special populations are also discussed. ------------------­--------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tZMhhgsf9Eg 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

If you were to observe a lifter who you thought had maybe one leg that was longer than the other one?

0:07.0

Right.

0:08.0

A, how would you measure that?

0:10.0

And B?

0:11.0

Well, I've got a very detailed article on that on the website.

0:17.0

A very detailed, very well-documented, very well documented, very well photographed article on the website

0:23.6

that goes into all the hows and whys of that.

0:26.6

Does it explain that the shim?

0:28.6

Yes. Yes.

0:30.6

It explains how the shim should be applied.

0:35.6

Because if it's a tibial leg length discrepancy it's

0:39.3

different than ephemeral leg length discrepancy and it talks about all of that

0:43.3

and as far as I know it's the only article it's type in print and I think you are

0:49.8

to look at it. Now think about that if it's the shin that's short, if the shin is short, shimming the short side is an easy fix because the knees get even. But if the femur's short, which is the situation with Vic that I had, Vic, right, raise your hand. That guy. I was like, man, he's got some weird asymmetry.

1:11.7

Let's look at this thing.

1:13.1

I think he's got a short femur.

1:15.6

And Rick came over and like, definitely.

1:17.8

You've got a shim and stagger your stance, which makes it weirder.

1:24.6

So remember, we shim a short femur.

1:27.4

The knees are now uneven.

1:31.0

You get a stagger and get it back to get the,

1:33.2

because what we're looking for is a square pelvis

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