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Training Combat-Ready Soldiers, not Powerlifters | Starting Strength Radio #311

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.6740 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Rip discusses how the those entering basic training are the demographic that most rapidly gets strong using the Starting Strength Novice Linear Progression and how a change in approach would prepare soldiers to operate effectively in the modern military environment.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You must be Doc Holliday.

0:03.0

That's the rumor.

0:06.0

You retired too?

0:09.0

Not me. I'm in my prime.

0:13.0

Yeah, you look it.

0:16.0

Okay kids, here we go. Next seminar, July 11th through the 13th.

0:19.0

For training camps on the list, we still have spots for our double-hutter camp going on in Scotland this week on on April 6th

0:24.0

that'll be a squat camp in the morning then a deadlift and power clean camp in the afternoon

0:27.3

and if you buy both those together you do to get a bit of a discount then for press and bench press

0:31.3

camps we have one in Astoria queens on April 26th and then another one on April 26th in Orange County, California. We plan that to have

0:37.9

coast to coast, baby. Then deadlift and power clean camps May 3rd, Columbus, Ohio at

0:43.0

starting strength Columbus and Indianapolis on July 26th at starting strength Indianapolis.

0:47.7

Squat and power clean camp May 10th in Wichita Falls. Rip and Nick will be coaching that one.

0:51.9

Then a few squat and deadlift camps with spots still available. April 13th in Cincinnati at starting strength Cincinnati, April 26th in Phoenix at

0:58.1

weights and plates, May 4th in Baltimore at 5 by 3 training, and then November 8th in Indianapolis.

1:02.9

Once again, those are all squat and deadlift camps. Folks, it's never been a better time to

1:06.6

become a starting strength coach. There's tons of tools out there to become a coach, including the coach's prep course. Coach's prep course is done online. You do get assigned a starting

1:15.3

strength coach mentor that's going to help guide you through the material, grade your

1:19.0

written assignments and your coaching assignments, give you feedback and all that, and help you

1:23.8

with your process. We cover things like physics, physiology, anatomy, programming,

1:28.5

coaching theory, and much, much more. The only prerequisite is that you do have somebody that you

1:32.5

can film for the coaching assignments, but otherwise it's open to everyone. So if you were interested,

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