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The Power Equation | Starting Strength Radio #117

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.6740 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Rip discusses power and its application to sports performance, training for power, and the misapplication of power training in strength and conditioning. 1:15 Haters 8:26 What is Power? 12:51 We Aren’t Sports Fans 17:03 Power Production is Genetic/Testing 2414 Mechanics of a Vertical Jump 36:56 The Significance of a Big Vertical Jump 44:58 Two Ways to Produce Force 49:53 Rate of Force Production Training = Waste of Time 55:55 Why use the Power Clean? 1:00 What is the Power Clean?

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0:00.0

Says the white South African?

0:02.0

I'm from Rhodesia.

0:05.0

We say Zimbabwe now, don't we?

0:09.0

Do we?

0:10.0

Alright guys, it's Pete with the breakdown of everything we have coming up.

0:14.0

Let's talk seminars.

0:15.0

These have been selling out pretty regularly, so do not delay.

0:18.0

We have August 13th through the 15th is the next one up with a few spots left.

0:21.5

Then after that, October 15th through the 17th and then closing out 2021 with December 10th through

0:26.9

the 12th. For lifting camps coming up will be in Wichita Falls for another self-sufficient

0:31.6

lifter camp on September 11th covering the squat, the press, the deadlift, how to film yourself

0:36.4

and how to diagnose your own technique. Then we have a pulling camp in Mootis, Connecticut,, the deadlift, how to film yourself, and how to diagnose your own technique.

0:38.5

Then we have a polling camp in Mootis, Connecticut, covering the deadlift and power clean on July 31st at Anino

0:43.5

Strength. A couple squat and deadlift camps still on the list, July 17th, in Oklahoma City at Starting Strength, Oklahoma City with the hip shifter himself, baby Huey, Chase Linley.

0:53.1

And then another squat and deadlift camp on August

0:54.6

29th in Austin at starting strength Austin. And then finally our first ever Olympic lifting camp in

0:59.7

Denver on September 18th, where you'd be coached by Rip and Nick on the snatch as well as the

1:04.7

clean and jerk. For meets coming up, we do all of all the wonderment that is testify strength

1:08.8

and conditioning along with the classic Olympic lifting meet in Wichita Falls in July 24th where we've added the clean and press

1:14.1

and then of course the Charm City Strong Woman contest in Baltimore hosted by five by three and that is

1:18.9

a charity event to raise money for the almond house which is a home away from home for folks undergoing

1:23.5

cancer treatment starting strength gyms continue to rock on. We have Boise ready to open.

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