You're listening to the How to Talk to Girls podcast with me, Tripp Kramer.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the How to Talk to Girls podcast.

I'm your host, Tripp Kramer, dating coach for shy men all over the world.

So happy to be here. And hello to all the members of starting

strength because I know that there's going to be a lot of guys who are doing starting strength

who are listening to this. So I just want to welcome you to this episode as well. For those of you

who are listening who are like, what's starting strength? Who's Mark Ripto? What's going on?

Mark Ripto, he's going to explain a little bit about his background, but he is, he's got

this really solid, really, I would say even massive cult following in the fitness world.

He started this program called Starting Strength, which is something that I did a few

years ago and I tapped into it. And what it is is it's doing certain exercises. The main exercises

that you might know if you are someone who works out. We're talking about deadlifting, squatting,

bench press,

power cleans. So doing these core exercises, and the whole concept behind it is you are doing a lot of,

I'm not going to get into the micro details, but just understand that you do a lot of warm-ups,

and then you do what's called the final set.

So, for example, you want to beat 100 pounds on your bench press.

You're going to do a lot of warm-ups leading up to that, and then you're going to do the final

bench-pressing set, which is going to be three sets of five.

And if you accomplish those three sets of five,

the next time you do it, you will go up five pounds. So it's this way of making sure that your

muscles are breaking down and growing by increasing your weight every time you do it. So starting

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