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The Truth About Steroids | Starting Strength Radio #221

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.6740 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Rip talks about the history of anabolic steroids, who uses them and why, and why they are completely inappropriate and unnecessary for most lifters. 01:02 4th of July 06:33 Anabolic steroids 19:20 What they do/morals 23:38 Steroids and the Olympics 36:17 A novice should just do a good strength program 42:30 Steroids help bad training 53:12 What they don’t do

Transcript

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0:00.0

It starts with an S.

0:02.0

Swim, Swimmy, Slippy, Slappy, Slamin, Somin, Svons, Swanson, Swanson.

0:10.0

Maybe it's on the briefcase. Look on the...

0:12.0

Oh yeah, it's right here.

0:14.0

Sampsonite. I was way off.

0:17.0

Okay, boys and girls, here we go. Next seminar up, August 11th through the 13th, then October 13th through the 15th, then December 8th through the 10th. For training camps on the list, we have our workshop for personal trainers. This is geared towards folks that are in the fitness industry that want to learn about the starting strength principles, the methods, how to incorporate this in your own practice. Participants will be able to coach one another

0:39.3

in the five step deadlift setup,

0:40.8

coach each other through some deadlift sets,

0:42.7

maybe earn some CEUs,

0:44.4

and if you're an active personal trainer or fitness professional,

0:47.7

you might be eligible for a discount.

0:49.6

Check out the links for details.

0:51.3

A couple other training camps on lifts,

0:52.5

self-sufficient lifter camps, September 16th, Wichita Falls in September 23rd in Omaha, Nebraska. Those are the squat

0:59.4

press, deadlift camps, how to film yourself and how to diagnose your own technique. Squat camp going

1:03.9

on in Astoria, New York on October 7th. Some spots left for a press and bench press camp

1:09.1

on Long Island, September 23rd. And then some squat and deadlift camps with spots available still August 12th in Greenville, South Carolina, and August 26th in Tampa, Florida at starting strength Tampa.

1:19.6

And finally, three lift camps with spots still available, July 22nd, Brussels barbell.

1:24.6

Two spots going on in Vancouver, that's July 29th and July 30th. And September 2nd

1:30.0

in Dublin, Ireland, with one spot left at the time of this recording. All those camps are

1:34.3

three lift camps covering me squat, press, and the deadlift. Just a reminder, starting strength

1:38.8

gyms are still looking for talent. So if you're looking to make a career change, want to find out

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