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Starting Strength Radio

Picking up Training After 60

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.5768 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Steven Miller, a trainee at Hygieia Strength and Conditioning in Singapore, talks about starting barbell training later in life. ------------------­--------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wNKlFborY98 WEBSITE: https://startingstrength.com FORUM: https://startingstrength.com/resources/forum/ STORE: https://aasgaardco.com Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AasgaardCo Watch us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startingstrength/ Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SS_strength Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Starting-Strength-The-Aasgaard-Company/142424022490628 -----------------------------

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0:00.0

My name is Stephen Miller.

0:06.0

I'm 62 years old.

0:08.0

My first time with weight lifting was just after my 62nd birthday.

0:14.0

And I have done nautilus and those kind of machine weights before,

0:20.0

but I've never done barbell lifting

0:23.6

well there was a very important influence in my life and that was my wife because she

0:31.3

started at this gym one year ago she's got a great video on this on reversing

0:36.8

osteoporosis.

0:38.3

So I've been hearing about the experience of coming to the gym and what she was doing

0:45.3

and her progression and how it strengthened her and she just really liked the community of the people at the gym and the experience of it. Does this stress me or hurt me?

0:58.0

No. And my wife had said the same thing. It was surprising. She was expecting this to be hard on her knees and it turned out not to be.

1:08.0

I have to say the people at the gym working with Sean and Marvin,

1:12.6

they are very, very particular about the form

1:16.6

and they're very careful about systematically increasing your weight,

1:21.6

and I'm really surprised at what was possible.

1:26.6

I recall in particular when I started six months ago,

1:31.9

the first time I did a squat was with a 5KG bar.

1:38.7

I think in today's session we're set to do 80KG for the squats.

1:43.9

And I literally did not think it was ever

1:46.3

possible to get up to that level and steadily steadily steadily you're able to do it

1:52.6

and I look forward to it look forward to the gradual increases yeah I can

1:59.0

definitely tell some changes I'd say the biggest change is

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