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Experience with Jordan Feigenbaum | Starting Strength Podcast

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.5768 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Starting Strength Coach Jordan Feigenbaum and Mark Rippetoe discuss the value of the coach in being able to filter noise when interacting with readers on the internet. The topics of reasonable expectations for a normal person doing a novice linear progression and skewed strength standards for professional athletes are also brought up along with the ability to deadlift 405. --------------------------­--------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aBxmdRHpTgE 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 I was thinking everything that you've written on the board, all right, or written in the book, is filled with so much nuance, right, that people who have not been exposed to even a quarter

0:25.5

of what you've been exposed to training-wise in your career cannot possibly pick up all

0:31.8

the things that you're meaning from what you say.

0:34.1

I forget who said it on the board.

0:35.6

They said, you know, Rip and Jordan are both very careful with what they write.

0:39.2

And it's like, well, yeah, because there's so much new, like, they're just experience

0:42.8

packed into every statement.

0:44.4

There's layers of complexity that you'll have to tease out if you're not, if you don't have

0:48.5

the same experiences that we have, right?

0:50.3

So that's why when you type them and someone responds back, they've only got it on a superficial

0:54.6

level.

0:55.6

It's the first time through.

0:56.6

And then you're like, well, why don't you get it?

0:58.5

It's like, well, on the one hand, yes, they need to be the one going through and getting

1:04.4

it themselves unless they're paying you to take their hand and walk walk them through it.

1:11.6

What you and I do, or what all the coaches do is basically just we cut off the learning curve.

1:16.6

Like any question that you've ever had, we've already been there because we fucked it up.

1:19.6

That's why.

1:20.6

Making the mistakes is how you learn to not make the mistakes.

1:23.6

Right.

1:24.6

This is why we're going to tell you not to buy this type of shoe.

1:26.6

You're not going to do this on your second day when you go to squat because we've already

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