Fitness “Beliefs” Versus What Actually Works Best | Starting Strength Gyms Podcast #50

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Mark Rippetoe

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

4.6 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Everyone's favorite guest, Nick, joins Ray on the podcast today to discuss how popular culture's conception of fitness is exactly backwards. Listen and nod in agreement, or angrily share your misunderstandings in the comments. 01:57 - Argument for Starting Strength 05:33 - Adaptions are specific to the stress that you apply 08:03 - How do adaptations carry over into life? 09:58 - Guiding people through the most optimal way to improve performance 17:02 - Where should you spend your time and energy to benefit everything else? 18:48 - People have preconceptions 21:00 - Process-oriented solution to a common misconception 32:09 - High levels of conditioning are specific to the activity that you're doing 36:42 - Most people have their priorities backward 45:08 - Progress that can be measured 47:53 - We are selling improved capability 56:55 - Two types of coaches that aren't ideal 58:54 - How to guide clients when things get hard 01:05:54 - Starting Strength Gyms is getting a new website

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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.
0:30.3	All right, everyone. Welcome back. Nick Delgado's on. Nick and I were talking about fads and
0:37.0	starting strength and social media and marketing.
0:40.5	And we want to talk about all this stuff.
0:43.0	We have no particular structure or order.
0:44.8	So let's see how this goes.
0:46.1	But the premise essentially, Nick, and let me know if you want to add anything to this,
0:50.2	is there's a lot of stuff out there that a lot of people are talking about. And as with
0:56.4	most things, some people know what they're talking about. Some don't. It's hard to tell based
1:01.1	on how confident people are. But for us, it always comes down to the argument. So Nick,
1:06.7	why don't we start with the argument for starting strength?
1:10.9	I'll share my perspective and then let me know if I've missed something or if I've misconstrued
1:15.4	something.
1:16.4	But essentially what it comes down to is we have this biological machine that we all operate
1:22.1	in and that machine is optimized when it's exposed to stress. And there are optimal ways you can expose
1:30.2	your body to stress. And there are less optimal ways. And from my point of view, training is
1:36.3	better than exercise in the way that Rip-a-toe outlines. So if you're trying to optimize your
1:41.2	human system, you should do so in a structured, planned way
1:45.0	with a specific goal.
1:47.0	So the question becomes then, well, what should the goal be?
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