From the Asgard Company Studios in beautiful Wichita Falls, Texas,

from the finest mind in the modern fitness industry,

the one true voice in the strength and conditioning profession,

the most important podcast on the internet.

Ladies and gentlemen, starting strength radio thank you mark wolf

welcome to starting strength radio where the finest mind and the strength

and conditioning industry pontificates from time to time well actually every

Friday and your questions get answered occasionally and this from time to time, well, actually every Friday.

And your questions get answered occasionally, and this is one of those occasions.

Today, we are going to read and answer the best questions off of the speak-up, the speak-up channel, and that is the link to, by the way,

on my Q&A, if you'd like to submit a question to starting strength radio for future consideration in one of these podcasts, we encourage you to do that at the speakup

link to be found at the Q&A, the Mark Ripeto Q&A, on the website.

Now we don't do all of the questions. Back when we used to do the ask rip,

we would do all of the questions.

And just for entertainment purposes,

but we're actually trying to make this an informative long podcast instead of 12 minutes of making fun of the general public.

So today, what we're going to do is just read the best of these questions.

We're going to leave the stupid ones out because it's not productive.

And maybe we'll be funny, you know, accidentally.

Sometimes we are.

All right.

So let's just dive right into these questions.

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