How to Become an Intermediate with Nick D | Starting Strength Gyms Podcast #59

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Mark Rippetoe

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

4.6 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Ray and Nick review the steps in the NLP and go through progressions to intermediate programming for each lift and examples of common issues with making changes. 01:47 Squat progression - Novice to Intermediate 03:37 Start with the basics - only make changes when needed 06:22 Technique/form 09:23 Adding a light day 11:59 Changes are individual dependent 13:51 Go up on the first set of five 15:33 Anything that's not adding five pounds to a workout isn't NLP 16:54 40-year-old/last steps for progression/decide which day is the heavy day 19:19 Triples 21:44 Considerations on program changes at this level 24:00 Women will move to threes pretty early 25:42 Programming issues - determining what change to make 26:36 Too much stress or not enough? 30:16 Not enough stress 31:49 If you make a change, make a small change 37:48 Standard progression on the deadlift 41:15 Simplifying things 44:37 Alternating the deadlift with another pulling movement 52:19 Making 10-pound jumps on the deadlift 55:09 Bench progression 57:30 Press progression 1:03:10 Nick's clients grinding through reps 1:04:39 Post novice - continue increasing stress

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