We are recording also Tom's making us music right now entry music. Oh nice. Yeah. I'm does that? Yeah. Well it's like it sounds like Drake but I'm rapping so all right. All right. Three two one.

Everyone welcome back to the Bar bell medicine podcast I'm Dr.

Austin Baraki and today we're going to talk about starting strength novice linear

progression do's and don'ts and why we think you should do it if you are a jet oh fuck

God damn it. I was doing so well give me another try. Here we go three two

one. Hey everyone, thanks for joining us.

You're back at the Barbell Medicine Podcast.

I'm Dr. Jordan Figenbaum.

I'm with Dr. Austin Baraki.

And today, we're talking about the starting strength novice linear progression. How's it going Austin?

Doing all right. How are you? I'm doing well here in the cave in Santa Monica.

All right, so today we're gonna have a 20 minute podcast just talking about the starting

strength novice linear progression and it should be said that if you're not familiar with

the program, if you just simply Google that, you're going to get a ton of results, although not all of them have been vetted.

In fact, if you go and search around long enough, you'll actually find weird things like a

five by five program or a program that looks more like like Texas method than starting strength so just

for everyone being on the same level what is the starting strength novice linear

progression? It's a basic barbell program designed for general strength trainees not focused on specifically on competitive power lifting which is sometimes a misconception about the program.

Basically, it's a it's an A type program. You train three days a week. You squat every session, three sets, five reps. You alternate upper body lifts, the bench press and the overhead press for three sets, five reps each,

and then you'll deadlift afterwards for a set of five.

And the idea is that in the novice phase of training, when you're able to adapt quickly, it is a phase

of training where you're able to add weight to the bar essentially

...