Mike Davis Talks Trains | Starting Strength Radio #252

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Mark Rippetoe

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Rip speaks with Mike Davis about the functioning of the rail system in the US, the personnel involved, the equipment used, the different types of trains, and more. 00:49 Mike Davis 02:33 The equipment/unions/divisions 11:43 Power 24:18 Efficiency and types of trains 32:00 New railroads/cars and engines 44:52 Materials 48:35 Assembling the trains/unloading the trains 53:48 The actual job 1:07:25 Who works there 1:32:36 Don’t beat the train

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0:00.0	American, huh?
0:01.0	Guilty?
0:02.0	Well, Americans usually are.
0:05.0	Says the white South African?
0:08.0	I'm from Rhodesia.
0:10.0	We say Zimbabwe now, don't we?
0:15.0	Do we?
0:16.0	Alright guys, here we go.
0:18.0	Next seminar up, April 12th through the 14th, then June 7th through the 9th.
0:23.1	Self-sufficient lifter camps on the list March 16th in Wichita Falls in May 18th in
0:27.1	Omaha, Nebraska at Testify Strength and Conditioning.
0:29.9	Both these camps will cover squat, the press, the deadlift, how to film yourself, and
0:33.5	then how to diagnose your own shitty technique. Lift shoot fight is back on the menu, as I've said, May 18th and 19th.
0:39.7	This is a weekend and beautiful Wichita Falls where you come and learn all five lifts from Rip and Nick,
0:44.9	squat, press, deadlift, bench press, and power clean.
0:47.9	And then you get to work on some combatives and some basic pistol handling with Nick and John
0:52.4	Valentine.
0:53.0	This course is open to anyone and everyone.
0:55.6	There's no prerequisite. You don't have to have any experience with any of this stuff. So check out
1:00.6	the link for details. Press and bench press camp July 20th in Indianapolis, it's starting strength
1:05.6	Indianapolis. Deadlift and power clean camp, April 6th in Queens, New York. And then the following are all squat and deadlift camps with a spot still available.
1:14.2	April 6th in Indianapolis, April 6th in Phoenix at weights and plates.
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