Bodybuilding vs Strength Training | Starting Strength Gyms Podcast #23

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.6 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Andy Baker Co-Authored Practical Programming for Strength Training and The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40 with the Founder of Starting Strength, Mark Rippetoe. He is a Starting Strength Coach and the Owner of Baker Personal Training in Kingwood, Texas. He's been a professional strength coach for over 17 years and is considered one of the leaders in the industry for his academic and practical contributions to the field of strength training. Ray and Andy sit down to discuss the differences between strength training and bodybuilding. 02:08 - Definitions of bodybuilding, strengthlifting, powerlifting, etc. 09:40 - How a young man improves his physique 24:10 - Some advice to build base strength 41:02 - Three contributing factors to physique 50:20 - Don't do more, do better 53:15 - Where does the NLP end and what's next 1:05:00 - Drug use in sports 1:15:30 - Therapeutic doses of TRT 1:23:40 - In summary, if you are a young man and aren't already strong, get strong

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0:00.0	Mildly entertaining, somewhat obscure guests, relatively interesting topics,
0:07.0	semi-professional production quality, reasonably well-informed commentary, a great value for the money,
0:14.8	hundreds of fans all around the world. It's the starting strength gyms podcast with your host, Ray Gillingwater.
0:27.2	Hey guys, welcome. We're here with our buddy Andy Baker. Today is an important day for those of you
0:36.2	that are interested in how to get big and
0:37.9	strong because Andy quite literally co-authored the book on this stuff. So Andy has made a bunch of
0:43.7	contributions to what we do here. So he co-authored practical programming with Mark Ripeto.
0:49.4	If you haven't read that, you have to check that out. That is the Bible on how to program for strength training Andy also is the first guy to do a starting
0:59.1	strength style gym in retail so what he built kind of inspired the franchise
1:03.8	model and here we are today so Andy thanks man for being a trailblazer and for
1:09.6	all your contributions.
1:11.7	Welcome to the show.
1:23.6	I thought we would probably pissing people off, hopefully clear up some confusion, and explain things as well as we understand them, admitting that we don't understand everything, which is part of the problem.
1:25.0	Absolutely.
1:26.4	Appreciate you having me on.
1:27.1	Yeah, man.
1:28.4	So why don't we start with definitions.
1:34.4	Can you, because in the way of everything we do, I think the names are all fucked up. You know, I don't, I don't think bodybuilding actually is bodybuilding. I think bodybuilding is like body
1:38.0	sculpting. But I think strength training is bodybuilding, because what builds your body? Right.
1:43.1	I'm up 80 pounds so is
1:44.8	that bodybuilding yeah so anyways I you know the definitions are screwy it's kind of
1:48.7	like power lifting there are no power moves in the in in power lifting it should
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