Seminar Q&A II - Seattle
Starting Strength Radio
Mark Rippetoe
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, earlier I had asked you about equipment and you'd remind me during the TNA. |
| 0:07.0 | Yeah, so yeah, a lot of you guys, this is actually probably the lowest percentage of people at a seminar we've ever had that had squat shoes, quality belts, things like that. |
| 0:18.0 | What was the question for that? |
| 0:20.0 | Oh, I'm sorry, equipment. |
| 0:21.6 | So the question was about sort of what equipment should you have to do this stuff. |
| 0:24.6 | One of the things I like about strength training is that it really is from an equipment perspective, |
| 0:30.6 | especially if you compare it to something like, say, playing golf, it's so much cheaper. |
| 0:35.6 | And the stuff lasts a really long time and so everybody needs |
| 0:40.4 | squat shoes everybody needs shoes to squat on like actual made to squat in |
| 0:44.9 | squat shoes that you don't wear any other time except for in the gym squat shoes |
| 0:49.2 | Adidas doesn't make a bad pair of squat shoes Nike doesn't make a bad pair of squat shoes. Nike doesn't make a bad pair of squat shoes. |
| 0:56.9 | Do-Wins, which you can buy at Rogue Fitness, don't make really bad pairs of squat shoes. |
| 1:01.6 | Most of the Reeboks are okay. |
| 1:03.2 | The things I don't like with squat shoes, and I'm just being a little bit anal, |
| 1:06.7 | is that the front of the Reebok shoes are often like where the toe is, they're soft |
| 1:12.4 | and they're made kind of like a tennis shoe so that you can do cross-fit workouts in them |
| 1:16.4 | a lot of times or maybe across it so that you could do a squat and then you can go right in |
| 1:20.2 | and do some sort of like you could do double unders with your with a jump rope or whatever. |
| 1:26.0 | And we don't do that and so I want a shoe that's solid |
| 1:29.0 | all the way across so we have a we had a video the barbell up so I have a we have a |
| 1:33.7 | channel on YouTube you're newbies I don't know if you know this barbell logic |
| 1:37.0 | and we just came out with a belt video I don't know when was the belt video no the |
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