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How to do the Starting Strength Novice Linear Progression | SS Gyms Podcast

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.6740 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

A detailed explanation of the NLP, how to progress each lift, and how to avoid common errors to get as strong as possible as quickly as possible. Hosted by Ray Gillenwater, SSC, Co-Founder of Starting Strength Gyms with Nick Delgadillo, SSC, Head of Gym Operations.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, so we're doing a starting strength gyms podcast.

0:09.7

We've recorded a few episodes, but this will probably be the first.

0:12.7

We're here with Nick Delgado.

0:14.4

We thought we'd start off strong.

0:15.8

So today's episode is about the starting strength novice linear progression.

0:21.6

If you've read the book, you know what the NLP is.

0:24.6

If you've been around the forum or know about starting strength, you're probably loosely familiar with it.

0:29.6

But we find that lots and lots of people don't have a complete conception of what NLP is.

0:36.6

And so they do it incorrectly.

0:38.3

The program works so well that even when done incorrectly it still is effective,

0:44.3

but we thought we would just give you the summary of what the novice linear progression is

0:48.3

and how you might do it on your own if you're so inclined.

0:52.3

So Nick, what, let's break it down.

0:56.1

Let's go, let's talk about the, the schedule, the lifting schedule.

0:59.6

Then let's also talk about how to progress each lift.

1:02.0

And let's see if we can get from day one all the way through to just graduating from the

1:08.6

novice space.

1:09.3

Does that sound good?

1:10.4

Yeah.

1:10.8

Can we, can we start with application though first, just briefly?

1:14.1

Absolutely.

1:15.5

So the whole programming discussion gets pretty complicated and is easy to, to, it's easy to drift off

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