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  • Mark Rippetoe discusses longevity, strength and weight class sports, performance vs. long term health and Ridley Scott movies during a Starting Strength Seminar Q&A.
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  • @zack7885
    @zack7885 Před 7 lety +73

    From 14:45 on they just talk about movies if you want to save yourself some time

  • @cliffonator1111
    @cliffonator1111 Před 5 lety +51

    I actually agree with the guy asking the question. I just want to be stronger than average, look like I lift weights, and be heart healthy. I don't need to squat 600 lbs and tear my ligaments to do those things.

    • @iamthelizardking6239
      @iamthelizardking6239 Před 5 lety +9

      cliff onator exactly if you can bench 225 for reps squat 315 for a few reps and run a 630 mile that’s good enough because when in the hell is a person ever gonna have to lift 600+ pounds outside a weightlifting competition if that’s your thing then go ahead but this idea that you can’t be strong and fit without getting hurt is just dumb.

    • @PearsAreOkay
      @PearsAreOkay Před 5 lety +3

      @@halvarandersen8279 that's such low percentage
      Youve an equivalent chance of winning the lottery

    • @thecastle09
      @thecastle09 Před 4 lety +4

      squat 205 til your death and you will be winning...guaranteed....weak at age 30 but strong as fuck at age 59,69,79.....wtf seriously bro. life is a marathin////persevere.

    • @dariusgoatland10
      @dariusgoatland10 Před 4 lety +4

      @@iamthelizardking6239 Whole thing about that is benching 225 for reps & squatting 315 for reps isn't strong, lmao. Takes maybe 6 months of training to bench that & shouldn't take longer than 3 or 4 to squat it.

    • @gsdota
      @gsdota Před 4 lety +2

      Rips stance is that idea is NOT his program

  • @scannon90
    @scannon90 Před 5 lety +13

    I am a former boxer, and indeed I found going up in weight class a difficult decision. If, for example, you decide to put on an extra 20lbs in muscle and go up a couple of weight classes, you will be getting punched by much stronger men. If the extra muscle does not lead to an increase in punching power that will put you on equal footing with the heavier athletes (i.e., they generally punch harder than you) or if are unable to tolerate the stronger punches of the heavier athletes (i.e., you're getting knocked out all the time), then it is probably inadvisable to go up in weight. Most fighters find that they belong in an ideal weight class, and they stick with it. This is not a mistake.

  • @Kwizzle9999
    @Kwizzle9999 Před 6 lety +4

    I love how this seminar turned into a Ridley Scott movie review battle. Priceless. 10/10 would watch again!

  • @NikolaBg35
    @NikolaBg35 Před 7 lety +84

    Rip always hails getting stronger since it will make you tougher to kill and all that shit but also as a way of keeping a person healthy and mobile in old age. I think the guy was asking about a level of strength that is considered enough. Why should someone aim to get his squat from 200 to 235 kg if he does weightlifting only for the health benefits? I like Rip's style and I'm not really the middle kind of guy but it seems to me that he roasted this guy for no good reason.

    • @MrSmurf459
      @MrSmurf459 Před 7 lety +1

      Shporet I would've walked out! He's clearly ignorant!

    • @Slim934
      @Slim934 Před 5 lety +10

      I thought the same thing, but to be fair that fellow did a poor job actually articulating that point.
      "Everytime you push you risk injury". That's true, but there is a difference between pushing past your current best of 300lb compared to somebody who's current best is 400lb and continues to push and they're both different compared to the guy at 500lbs who continues to push. The latter is under much greater risk of royally screwing himself up and for comparatively little gain.
      It's clearly stupid for every single male to push for some super high number in a given if all you care about is not becoming frail in old age. Maybe that guy who can deadlift 600lb will be healthier at age 80 than you will at your current 300lb (all numbers are just madeup examples to indicate a difference between stronger and weaker person). Maybe the 600lb deadlifter will be less frail, but he also has the risk of making himself fatter trying to push his physiology to a level that allows him to deadlift that much weight compared to the fellow just deadlifting 300, in which case now we must compare the risks from carrying around that extra fat (largely metabolically damaging tissue) compared to the 300lb guy.
      And cartilage and certain other tissues do not grow back if you screw them up, and in old age those huge numbers are likely to be less important to you than the constant pain you are now dealing with having royally destroyed your joints.
      To answer that guy's original question (and this is complete speculation on my part), but I would be willing to bet that anything above novice level progression gains (and maintaining them fairly closely as you age) is a negative trade-off if all you care about is your health and staying injury free. If you make it past the novice progression I am willing to bet (but have no evidence to prove) that any gains above that are statistical noise from a standpoint of improved morbidity and mortality. Beyond just the activity of lifting weights there are simply too few instances where strength required beyond novice progression are actually useful in everyday life. I am willing to be proven wrong but that is my perspective.
      And by novice level progression gains, I mean any gains that would require programming beyond the novice level type of linear progression. So if you were to continue to lift on a Novice type programming and totally stall out, that would be the end of novice progression gains and the only way above is to do more intricate programming (like that outlined in Practical Programming for Strength Training).

    • @93rwolf
      @93rwolf Před 5 lety +5

      Why is this concept so hard to grasp for you people? The *STRONGER* you are the *LOWER* your chances of injury are in *ALL* areas of life *INCLUDING* during weight training. The person who is weaker is more prone to injury, simple as that. Being as strong as naturally possible for as long as possible is the key to living injury free.

    • @alpaca_growing_kit
      @alpaca_growing_kit Před 4 lety +6

      @@93rwolf This is not true at all. It's all about form and not ego lifting. Your mentality leads to disc herniation friend.

    • @93rwolf
      @93rwolf Před 4 lety +6

      @@alpaca_growing_kit where did I say anything about not using proper form? Why can't you use proper form AND lift heavy? Do they not go hand in hand? This concept is not difficult to comprehend.

  • @alyoshazeifman4657
    @alyoshazeifman4657 Před 7 lety +12

    That Karwoski squat was so badass.

  • @RandomGuyyy
    @RandomGuyyy Před 7 lety +25

    11:00 Rip is not acknowledging that height definitely factors into fighting, particularly striking. That's why someone who is 5'8 is not keen on going up to the 220 class, he'll be facing guys who are 6'3 and will struggle to get past their jab.

    • @thegeeker5624
      @thegeeker5624 Před 7 lety +14

      Yeah, that's why you should never take advise about fighting from strength coaches.

    • @Richard-tj1yh
      @Richard-tj1yh Před 7 lety

      redchant but you are fucking 20 kilos heavier so it doesnt matter, u would still dominate.

    • @RandomGuyyy
      @RandomGuyyy Před 7 lety +2

      Are you familiar with the expression, "Your arm is too short to box with God"?

    • @MagnumMuscle1000
      @MagnumMuscle1000 Před 7 lety +2

      redchant Mike Tyson?

    • @Richard-tj1yh
      @Richard-tj1yh Před 7 lety +1

      You may be right with boxing in particular, but other fighting sports in general?

  • @electroplaque
    @electroplaque Před 6 lety +9

    He didn't really discuss longevity, he just stated you need to choose of two options. Sounds really simple but doesn't really help anyone. There's probably an optimal compromise between the two when it comes to percentage of 1RM, rep range, deloading etc. I think this is obvious as you don't NEED to max out to gain strength, also you can add reps to get stronger without adding weight (to a certain point).

    • @LTPottenger
      @LTPottenger Před 3 lety +1

      Getting stronger will improve your longevity not impair it.

  • @diegomer
    @diegomer Před 7 lety +1

    My new favorite video, Rip.

  • @00Noontide
    @00Noontide Před 7 lety +1

    great content! thanks!

  • @user-hq4gt5vv4m
    @user-hq4gt5vv4m Před 6 lety +2

    11:28 He is just not only a great coach, but also has a life lesson to give us. 'miring.

  • @havock901
    @havock901 Před 6 lety +1

    I gotta get into one of this seminars damn it!! , movies, nutrition and jokes....plus I will be stronger after !

    • @Mateo-et3wl
      @Mateo-et3wl Před 5 lety

      I went and it was a waste of time and money. Rip wasn't at mine but some of his lackeys attempted to channel his spirit. It was a lot of regurgitating the book verbatim, a lot of attitude, and the classroom part could have been condensed by 90%. The training portion was okay but i wish I'd spent that money on a few months of personal coaching.

  • @mynameisnobody3931
    @mynameisnobody3931 Před 5 lety +19

    Not many top athletes live to be 100 years. There you go.
    So the young guy definitely has a point.
    Let him do things the way he wants to Mark.
    He can still train with barbells to make himself better.
    Better doesn't have to be all in or nothing.
    There's a middle ground for people that want that.
    PR's as you said yourself has a price.
    It's also more taxing on the body to train yourself to get a deadlift of 8-900 than staying at 500.
    If you want longevity there comes a point in your life where you'll just back off and keep working the same numbers. And that's fine.

    • @lusitanus6504
      @lusitanus6504 Před 5 lety +1

      You can do progressive chalistenics. Its a lot safer, you get strong an more agile than with weights. Maybe barbell training isnt for him.

    • @lusitanus6504
      @lusitanus6504 Před 4 lety

      @Hobo Battleship you can train safely into old age with low reps with chalistenics with the right progressions, but if you just prefer weights go for it. I like weightlifting too and intend to add a few exercises to my routine in the future but I prefer to work on mastering my own bodyweight. I built aproximately 35 lb of muscle to my frame only with chalistenics. At 185lb of bodyweight I was able to bench press 305lb at one point without having touched a weight in years. It works if you train the right way. Thats just my preference. Cheers from Portugal.

  • @elcid4593
    @elcid4593 Před 7 lety

    this guy is awesome

  • @Theplaymaker1271
    @Theplaymaker1271 Před 7 lety +10

    I really wanna know Rips thoughts on The Matrix

    • @aychar
      @aychar Před 3 lety +2

      neo wasn't 200 pounds therefore could not have been the one

  • @Trezker
    @Trezker Před 6 lety +2

    To answer the question quickly and efficiently. Part 1: Make sure you do every exercise with good form. It's in the basics of starting strength. "The heaviest set of 5 you can do with correct form." That's how strong you are. Add another pound and you find where your form falters. Get your form right, add another pound, repeat. Part 2: Eat healthy for the vast majority of your week. Exactly what the most healthy eating consists of is unclear, but we do know a lot about what is clearly not healthy so at least you can avoid that.

    • @38Fanda
      @38Fanda Před 2 lety

      read up on micronutrients and their bioavailability, basically make a sheet of all the foods you eat and write down what micro's are in it and work from there. and do cardio + SAFE & limited weightlifting your whole life.

  • @togofar
    @togofar Před 4 lety +1

    I like how the most heated discussion is about the movie Prometheus.

  • @SmithyFitness
    @SmithyFitness Před 7 lety +19

    Rip was tough on that guy, but that guy needed to be shaken up. He was striving to be mediocre, talking timidly, no car, wanting to be careful. Mark lives his life full on and rightly believes that is the way to go. He might have hurt that guys feelings but maybe through that he'll get angry and bust out a bit. Being safe and careful is no way to live a life.

    • @MrSmurf459
      @MrSmurf459 Před 7 lety +10

      Christopher Smith so everyone that trains should basically try to break world records!?!?!?!? You guys are delusional! Some guys just want to be strong and be ready for whatever life throws at them! Not everyone to be the worlds strongest man, bro I bench 315, overhead press 200, trap dead 465 and once my ohp hits 225 and my trap dead touches 500 then I will be contempt and maintain that for the majority of my life! Not everyone wants to be the next Brian shaw!

    • @SmithyFitness
      @SmithyFitness Před 7 lety +3

      Yes. Exactly. Everyone should break world records. That is precisely what I said. Of course.

    • @Tevyn843
      @Tevyn843 Před 7 lety +2

      trap dead? ok Steph Curry

    • @MrSmurf459
      @MrSmurf459 Před 7 lety

      Tevyn Shoffner what's your point?!? Please I'd like to know!

    • @ryantfinchum
      @ryantfinchum Před 6 lety +4

      Rip admits to doing stupid things in his life.. Multiple times.. This guy is just trying to avoid injuries..I must admit I sympathize..

  • @tuhaggis
    @tuhaggis Před 7 lety +1

    Ok I think most people are missing Mark's point:
    The question of how much training is sensible and virtually risk free can be expressed as an approach to lifting that says I don't push myself too hard, I don't take chances, and I don't want to see how far I can go. Mark then says that that idea is incompatible with the idea of pushing yourself hard, taking chances, and seeing how far you can go. Therefore, he will never reach a point of going too far because he doesn't train in a way to get him to that point due to his mindset.

  • @oliverallen5324
    @oliverallen5324 Před 5 lety +4

    If you're interested in longevity, look up Dr. Peter Attia and "Longevity Solution". You know as you get older after a point, you get weaker. The question then is, how strong do you need to be ((now)) to be strong enough to do the things you wanna do at 100? Most of the literature says the hormonal climate to grow and* be strong is counterintuitive to staying alive in old age.

  • @Vitao17
    @Vitao17 Před 6 lety +1

    That Rip insulted this poor fella just because he wouldn't want to be the strongest that he could be?
    I have myself a new hero.

  • @spartysmile5243
    @spartysmile5243 Před 2 lety

    Very valuable advice about young wrestler losing weight.
    I was training a, terrific athlete kid, freshman. Teaching him to powerlift. His mom was the big "push" in his life.
    Kid loved powerlifting training after a great freshman football season. Weighed 165.
    Mom wanted the glory of being a wrestling mom.
    Two wrestling coaches both super heavies. Never lost a pound in their lives.
    So the kid loses 20 pounds down to 145. Because they "need" him there.
    Kid is constantly spitting to keep weight down.
    Finally blows out the left elbow of his pitching arm. Needs a screw to get everything "right as rain". Direct quote.
    All that under the control of two coaches who weighed well over 300 each.
    Kid still had a great his school career. Hated wrestling for the weight reduction. But mom got to be a four year wrestling mom.
    I even shake my head now. It was 20 years ago.

  • @smurf88
    @smurf88 Před 5 lety +11

    For the first question, Rip really isn't the guy to listen to. You want to look at someone like Scooby1961, who has lifted for decades without any real injury.

    • @Cruise465
      @Cruise465 Před 5 lety +2

      the smurf steroids?

    • @suntzu7727
      @suntzu7727 Před 4 lety +2

      @@Cruise465 I don't know if he does steroids, he said he hasn't. If you steroids make you be healthy as fuck, be strong and lean, have intense cardio vascular condition that allows you to do things like biking for 4 hours, while being 60 years old, they are good for you then.

  • @Student4Life1975
    @Student4Life1975 Před 5 lety +2

    “There is no progress without compromise”

  • @jul059
    @jul059 Před 5 lety

    Left after the question was asked.

  • @HAL-dm1eh
    @HAL-dm1eh Před 6 lety +2

    I'm surprised no one there mentioned the look of strength they gave the Engineers in Prometheus. I found it quite admirable in a world where people believe the more advanced we get with technology the less muscle and strength we'll need, which is a slippery slope into feminism.

  • @dteun
    @dteun Před 7 lety +2

    ordered the book it arrived in German language.. than ordered from eBay it never arrived..

  • @TylerSocholotuik
    @TylerSocholotuik Před 7 lety +16

    Everyone that is crying about Rip's response to the longevity question obviously doesn't understand post-novice strength training, or the stress-adaptation model. If you want to train to get stronger, you have to keep putting weight on the bar. Putting more weight on the bar every week (in intermediate programming) is hard, and it is going to hurt eventually. If you don't care about getting as strong as you can possibly be, do a different type of program after your novice progression. Rip is not the person to ask about these programs because he is not interested in them. If your goals are different, seek advice elsewhere.

    • @Just_Me
      @Just_Me Před 6 lety +13

      Yeah, but... Spend some time listening to the guys at Barbell Medicine. They have a different perspective. They dislike the Texas Method and think a lot of Rip's post novice stage programming is off base. They are proponents of RPE and suggest that the sweet spot being in the 70-83% of 1 RM and most of their programming has the lifter leaving one or two reps "in the tank" after each set. They make the point that the lifter's goal should be getting strong over the long term to reach one's potential -- not worrying about how much you lift next week. Barbell Medicine obviously had a falling out with Rip for a reason, and I'd think that his approach to post-novice training is part of it. That and the fact that he probably wears on people after a while.

    • @robertsmith6068
      @robertsmith6068 Před 5 lety +1

      @@Just_Me good post. I don't see how continuing to chase big numbers is healthy. Isn't that where the busted up weight lifter syndrome comes from? years ago I reached some good numbers for the big lifts. I didn't see any point in adding a lb and continuing to beat myself up. So I quit and did other things. Older now and back to lifting again but this time better programming and more sensible. I do think after years of trying other modalities ( and not just casually) that weight lifting is the single best method for retaining as much strength as possible.

    • @rick323
      @rick323 Před 5 lety +1

      Yeah, adding more weight endlessly is both unrealistic and not the only way. An approach like barbell medicine is very realistic for we who want to improve ourselves and get strong, greatly improve our health, strength and longevity, but don't want injury or competition.

    • @joshuariosa5756
      @joshuariosa5756 Před 5 lety

      @@rick323 are we talking about "the bridge" program?

    • @rick323
      @rick323 Před 5 lety

      @@joshuariosa5756 Including that, yes.

  • @Michael-cb5nm
    @Michael-cb5nm Před 2 lety +1

    I’m 5’8 but fu*k that 220 bs. I’m 295 looking to be about 327. Wide as I am tall. Basically a tailor’s nightmare. And I can forget about wiling my own a$$. But damn I’ll be able to squat and bench a metric ton…

  • @PearsAreOkay
    @PearsAreOkay Před 5 lety

    7:23
    Re: which strength exercises? Easy-- sport-specific ones.

  • @SamuelRWB
    @SamuelRWB Před 9 měsíci

    The weirdist thing happnned the other day, I was getting low back pain on my dead warm sets, then had my nice long rest for my working set ( and this shit was hevay for me like veins bulgin light headed n stuff) and after my working set the pain was like 95% better is this a common exsperience?

  • @cszabo8899
    @cszabo8899 Před 3 měsíci

    I like Rip's t-shirt.

  • @georgep.5315
    @georgep.5315 Před 6 lety

    R.I.P. is one intelligent dude.

  • @fabioq6916
    @fabioq6916 Před 5 lety +2

    rip is wrong about the weight class stuff for boxing. Tall guys may want to stay light for the range advantage. More to boxing than strength.... At least he admits he's the wrong guy for that...

  • @slackerengi2401
    @slackerengi2401 Před 4 lety +3

    1:39
    Rip, you quit power lifting and horseback riding because of the injuries

  • @gokuryu
    @gokuryu Před 7 lety +9

    lets say this guys current squat is 315 x 5. he could cycle from 275 x 5 up to 315 over the course of 6 weeks. if he did that for the rest of his life he would have longevity. an 80 year old man who can squat 315...or shit 225 for that matter will not have an issue waking up stairs, mowing his lawn or playing with grand kids. Do that simple pattern for all the lifts and you can have longevity of lifting. trying to chase bigger numbers will always wear you down over years.
    The other answer is variety. keep your basic lifts at a good level and do some cardio, stretching/mobility/yoga, and assistance work to keep activity high without over stressing the system.

    • @robertsmith6068
      @robertsmith6068 Před 5 lety

      good post.

    • @swampThaang
      @swampThaang Před 5 lety +1

      Can you explain why you have to cycle rather than just staying at the 315?

  • @thecastle09
    @thecastle09 Před 4 lety +1

    ill be 75 yrs old moving 135 on everything...dig that mutha fuckers...guarantee that shit. been l.ifting since im 14 yrs old and i wont stop til death....cervical herniated discs wont stop me ever....

  • @squidpotion
    @squidpotion Před 7 lety +2

    Strongly disagree with the PTSD comment enough to - well, comment. Rip should take a trip to the VA hospital and tell them to get the fuck over it.

    • @aaronfitch4585
      @aaronfitch4585 Před 7 lety +1

      Barbells are his metaphor for everything. So someone who can't get past a trauma or a decade of combat has the same problem as someone who just won't DTFP. If you can't do it, you don't want to.

  • @vardaspavarde8480
    @vardaspavarde8480 Před 7 lety

    Hey dose everyone have experience lifting with spina bifida

  • @MindvsMastery
    @MindvsMastery Před 7 lety +26

    Mark should read how to win friends and influence people. Im sure some of these people will go home and never listen to rip again. Good videos though

    • @digitalsublime
      @digitalsublime Před 5 lety +6

      No nonsense people love his personality, beta males and females get offended and a hassle to deal with anyways, no character.

    • @93rwolf
      @93rwolf Před 5 lety +1

      @Kiln Strength nice projection perma beta lol

    • @IRISHSALTMINER61
      @IRISHSALTMINER61 Před 4 lety

      Mind & Muscle If people tune out coz they ask stupid.... They have the problem, so no loss.

    • @IRISHSALTMINER61
      @IRISHSALTMINER61 Před 4 lety

      Natty Fatty Powerlifting What cult is that.... And why are you here?

  • @jetjames420
    @jetjames420 Před 3 lety

    You didn't know but you're actually here to hear a review of the work by ridley scott

  • @ChrisJ294
    @ChrisJ294 Před 5 lety +2

    Seemed a fair question. It's common sense that if you want to be the best in the world, make a career and money out of it, you're going to have to risk fucking yourself up. But if it's just a hobby, why the fuck would you? What's the point mouthing that you once squatted 600 lbs when you knees/hips are fucked and you can hardly walk, or bragging you benched 300 lbs - before you had to have a shoulder replacement because of it and now struggle to put a shirt on, or wipe your own arse. If you are willing to permanently fuck your body up so that you can say you once squatted a big number, that isn't 'excellence', it's fucking mental illness.

  • @chasefarley8855
    @chasefarley8855 Před 7 lety

    Have these people ever heard Mark speak? These fucking questions...

  • @SuperBizalz
    @SuperBizalz Před 3 lety +1

    10:47 - 11:11 - Cracks me up how these guys always treat RIP like they’re abused kids. “Dad/RIP is saying some stupid shit, but we’d better not correct him, or we’re going to get smacked upside the head.”
    LMAO!!

  • @jonathanwade8313
    @jonathanwade8313 Před 6 lety +1

    They should change this from "ask rip" to "nervous laughter"

  • @nyclear
    @nyclear Před 4 lety

    If you go up to 205 because you are 205 it means you fight someone who is 230. We should make a stand and take all weight cutting out of sports.

  • @johnpymn9869
    @johnpymn9869 Před 7 lety +21

    damn I usually enjoy these but what happened to meaningful training talk ? Was it the group ? or what but this was awful

    • @DriveupLife22
      @DriveupLife22 Před 5 lety

      Sometimes a bunch of nerds take the course, cant really change it.

    • @IRISHSALTMINER61
      @IRISHSALTMINER61 Před 4 lety

      John Doe Please proof read...

  • @WS-ij4ey
    @WS-ij4ey Před 6 lety

    Look at OLY lifters Very strong, must maintain consistent weight.

  • @drewdewitt4668
    @drewdewitt4668 Před 7 lety

    Wish Rip was my dad.

  • @patrickvanmeter2922
    @patrickvanmeter2922 Před 5 lety

    get the fuck over it. Epic and true. People don't like to hear this but you either get over it or stay the way you are. Simple choice.

  • @DylanFowler
    @DylanFowler Před 7 lety

    Dude what is wrong with Orlando, I mean he was named after a town in Florida.

  • @Lane_X
    @Lane_X Před 3 lety +2

    Before I buy your book I need to Clarify something coz I ain't gonna waste my money on something that I think is a good source of information but turns out otherwise and am a doctor so yeah anyway,Nobody joins the gym to get injured, why the fuck would someone look forward to eventually/ultimately getting injured no matter what program one chooses to follow (not denying that strength training is the answer), also no one on this planet can get EXPONENTIALLY strong with time, if so then people would be able to squat/deadlift/press/bench press 4000 pounds or beyond irrespective of age.Can you do that? No, can any of your trainers or clients do that? No. Why? Because that's not possible.
    Training for strength can be done to ones highest natural potential. So with age it has to be trimmed to such an extent where one does not get injured but remains strong as fuck at the end of the day. It's not always so that one gets injured then recovers and becomes stronger once the person is back to training. So,what and how much load one should lift has to be monitored with age and time, just enough to make sure that the person does not get injured, because no one can quantify the magnitude of one's injury. You facing a spinal injury because you squatted 515 pounds and somebody else doing the same might have a more severe injury that might lead that individual to a bar that can only allow 215 pounds for the rest of his/her life taking safety into account here, noting that there is a grantee that the person will never get injured if he/she chooses to stick to 215 pounds. Therefore ones quest should always be to look after ones bio mechanics and physiology no matter what program or goal that's been decided to conquer. It is optimal for someone doing a strength program to be able to atleast deadlift 3x, squat/press/bench press 1.5-2.5x one's body weight. If for instances my safety lies in the above mentioned parameters I would definitely not choose to go and push myself beyond that and unnecessarily invite an injury that maybe fatal as well.
    And sir! Getting hit by a car or a monster truck is not someone's choice, people don't sign up for that shit it's just something unfortunate, knowing that going beyond a certain load capacity may fuck someone up even for good who knows? Is in fact a voluntary choice made by the respective individual. So biological reports and physical Assessment should be carried out for all to track data then simultaneously assisting the load that can be lifted by one to his/her highest natural potential irrespective of age. Cheers!

  • @sgaikaiw
    @sgaikaiw Před 7 lety +2

    Did anyone catch the reference to the 1000lb squat youtube video Mark mentioned?

    • @ludwigvonsowell5347
      @ludwigvonsowell5347 Před 7 lety +1

      sgaikaiw Karwoski squats 1000 on CZcams.

    • @YeOldeFrancke
      @YeOldeFrancke Před 7 lety +1

      Just search for "1000 lbs double" here on youtube, should pop right up.

  • @Nachtgeist.
    @Nachtgeist. Před 4 lety

    Hi, my name is Timanthia; I'm a barista at Starbucks. I want to get strong, but not too strong, just strong enough to say i'm strong, but i want to eliminate my chances of hurting myself because getting hurt to be strong is just dumb when i can live to be a hundred and drink cappachinos. Can you direct me to the nearest home furniture store so i can finish soundproofing my apartment with pillows and comforters as i believe the world outside is getting much to aggressive and doesn't understand my identity as a man bun.

  • @kalm5076
    @kalm5076 Před 7 lety +17

    "Get your testosterone checked"
    I lost it at this point! Hilarious. Rip is the straightest shooter in the game.

    • @bradr539
      @bradr539 Před 5 lety

      Rip said what most people thought. Honesty is taboo these days . it was an adult conversation until recently..

    • @CeroAshura
      @CeroAshura Před 5 lety +3

      @@WiloDenja-ck8co get your testosterone checked

  • @JergenSplergen
    @JergenSplergen Před 5 lety

    Harsh AF with the PTSD question. LMAO.

  • @franklogrim8510
    @franklogrim8510 Před 6 lety +1

    bad questions :/

  • @Mattseak
    @Mattseak Před 7 lety +139

    Why does Rip purposefully misunderstand some of the questions? I mean he can't just be that stupid? It almost seems like he does that on purpose just so that he can get to insult people.

    • @humungus3
      @humungus3 Před 7 lety +19

      He is cantankerous by nature. He's kind of like a real life Ron Swanson in some ways.

    • @entee123
      @entee123 Před 7 lety +24

      The guy can't reason with a different point of view without getting aggressive and insulting.

    • @sonortubelug3853
      @sonortubelug3853 Před 7 lety +32

      It's called wit. It's spontaneous and it makes people laugh, you fucking humourless worthy. He gets asked stupid questions. I went to see Metallica and it was too loud....

    • @Mattseak
      @Mattseak Před 7 lety +35

      Yeah sure I get that it's funny, but unless it is the purpose of those Ask Rip sessions to bully people and have laugh at beginner lifters expense, I don't really see the point of acting like such asshole. It should be pretty clear that there are going to be people asking "stupid questions" as well, so if Rip is so fed up with those questions that he can't behave like a grown up, why bother having those Ask Rip segments at all?

    • @TheHandsomeMatt
      @TheHandsomeMatt Před 7 lety +14

      I think some of it, beyond Rippetoe's personality, was to peel back the rhetoric, attack the heart of the question, and point out that the two positions (No injuries versus max performance) are incompatible.
      It looks like this is the end of a session and if that's the case they've built some rapport with each other. I've noticed that he acts more restrained when he's introducing skills to new people in other videos.

  • @CWBush73
    @CWBush73 Před 7 lety +7

    Rips black and white outlook on everything shows him to be a caveman when he is unable to consider differing opinions. He brings Karl's name into the conversation when Karl may as well be an alien.

  • @4um360
    @4um360 Před 6 lety +1

    Some people are smart at some things but dumb at others.

  • @oliverallen5324
    @oliverallen5324 Před 4 lety +1

    The assumption is that ‘safe’ will save you. I’ll tell you after being an EMT for 8 years, it won’t. Death visits everyone. The difference is how gracefully you exit, and being as strong as you can allows you to do that. There’s not a lot you can do to ensure you’ll make it to 100; most of that is based on genetics, and Epigenetics, what kind of job you have, how much sleep you get, how much city smog you inhale. Live your brightest life.

  • @okienatural9493
    @okienatural9493 Před 7 lety +4

    From 15:00 and beyond, things become bizarre and disturbing, listening to nerds lather themselves into a frenzy while discussing and debating unicorns and sci fi.

    • @signs80
      @signs80 Před 7 lety

      okienatural almost like people do about the video in the comments

    • @Davotheledge
      @Davotheledge Před 6 lety

      I don't know how adults can talk about that shit.

  • @michaelmorris9546
    @michaelmorris9546 Před 7 lety +3

    This notion of only getting stronger if you get bigger is somewhat misinformed. Teaching your body to fire as many motor units at once in a coordinated fashion will result in you getting stronger, without getting bigger. Google how a muscle is activated and motor unit recruitment for more information. Of course, there is a point of diminishing returns...just like everything else.

    • @obits3
      @obits3 Před 6 lety

      Michael Morris - I think the counter argument would be that anyone worried about increasing a weight class has already maxed out their nervous system efficiency. In fact, most people tend to experience “newb gains” where their strength increased mainly due to motor unit recruitment. Only after this process maxes out does the muscle mass tend to increase.

    • @thearchives446
      @thearchives446 Před 5 lety +2

      Michael Morris you lose all credibility when you tell people to Google something..

  • @TheMasterMakarov
    @TheMasterMakarov Před 5 lety +9

    Cue everybody laughing at the dude who want to take care of his body and not lift 1000 lbs for the sake of it
    get your testosterone checked when someone else not wanting to live your lifestyle threatens your manhood

    • @racekrasser7869
      @racekrasser7869 Před 4 lety +2

      yeah...mob mentality. I wish he would have actually answered the question.

  • @stephengmercer
    @stephengmercer Před 7 lety

    Mass moves mass ....

  • @jabberwock14
    @jabberwock14 Před 4 lety

    Wonder why Rip has PTSD

  • @Day12My
    @Day12My Před 2 lety

    15:34...I think Mark hit a nerve..geez dude relax

  • @brotendo
    @brotendo Před 7 lety +3

    For fuckssakes Prometheus is not a bad movie.

    • @CC-pj7iy
      @CC-pj7iy Před 7 lety +1

      Would have been worlds better as a stand alone franchise and not an alien tie in imo. The ending was hokey as fuck.

  • @Roper122
    @Roper122 Před 7 lety

    Not so great with movies Rip.

  • @Alex-lu3pn
    @Alex-lu3pn Před 4 lety +5

    8:24
    Rippetoe has good advice, but damn is he out of touch with reality.
    5'8 elite lifters mostly compete in 180-195 weight class, definitely not 242+.
    In the first few Olympics, weightlifting heaviest class was 181 lbs.
    He has some serious issues with weight.

    • @dariusgoatland10
      @dariusgoatland10 Před 4 lety +1

      He was a 5'8" 220 who got dicked on by 5'5" Ed Coan, so he saw first hand the advantages associated with filling out a weight class at a short height. The best 231 is 5'6", the best 264 is 5'8", the best super heavyweights max out at 6'0" & are as short as 5'8" in the case of Jezza. That's reality.

    • @dariusgoatland10
      @dariusgoatland10 Před 4 lety +2

      You can be strong as 180-190 pound man at 5'8", but there will almost always be a shorter, denser, stronger guy besting you.

    • @Alex-lu3pn
      @Alex-lu3pn Před 4 lety +1

      @@dariusgoatland10 ok, true.
      But those numbers are very different for enhanced and drug-free.
      What you said applies to enhanced, but unreachable drug-free, just check tested powerlifting records (which actually still use some PED), true naturals would be even lighter.

    • @dariusgoatland10
      @dariusgoatland10 Před 4 lety

      @@Alex-lu3pn All of the stats I gave are from the IPF, which is the best we're going to get. 5'8" 220, realistically, is a big dude who shouldn't get much bigger. 5'8" 190, not so much.

    • @dariusgoatland10
      @dariusgoatland10 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Alex-lu3pn Plus you specifically stated elite 5'8" guys compete between 180 & 195, & that's demonstrably false, as i showed.

  • @MhUser
    @MhUser Před 7 lety +2

    about the fighters and weight - you want to have greater reach so you want to be taller and this means you want to be skinny to get an advantage; this is wrong; classes should take weight and reach into account cause this way everyone would be able to fight in their 'natural' weight class and noone would have an advantage; this would also be to hard to understand for a typical ppv viewer;

  • @Liberum69
    @Liberum69 Před 3 lety

    Prometheus sucked, Rip. It was a fun watch, but it was dumb. A director's cut filling in some holes doesn't change that fact.
    We came from the Engineers? What about the entire process of evolution? That was completely swept under the rug. Did they come down and create life with the express intent of eventually evolving a human being? Obviously that's flying in the face of literally everything we know about evolution, but it's also pretty fucking elaborate (about a BILLION year process) for creatures that can CREATE LIFE. We can clone creatures with our current technology.
    Yes, that was fucking stupid that the biologist ran from a hologram of an alien dying, but sticks his fucking face into the face of another, completely unknown alien creature. You pointed that out, so whatever. And yes, getting lost WITH A MAP?
    The fact that she said half a billion MILES from Earth, meaning they're just past Jupiter.
    Weyland being related to anybody went literally fucking nowhere, so that's just script fat.
    The girl running in the direction the spaceship was rolling.
    The ARCHAEOLOGISTS being so upset that they'll "Never know" about why the Engineers created them, like a minute after landing, just because they're supposedly all dead, when archaeology is DEFINED as the study of dead civilizations.
    There are many more.
    You may define this all as nitpicking, but these are all called for due to their volume, the tone of the movie implying that it's saying something profound, and the very obvious, glaring flaws that nobody bothered to factcheck. Tenet was just as bad.

  • @con-f-use
    @con-f-use Před 7 lety

    Link to the 2x1000lbs?

  • @ajleuty2387
    @ajleuty2387 Před 6 lety +2

    "Get your testosterone level checked" ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!

  • @IRISHSALTMINER61
    @IRISHSALTMINER61 Před 4 lety +1

    If you ask stupid questions, be prepared for some Texan face palming... “Rip..” current year..

  • @alpaca_growing_kit
    @alpaca_growing_kit Před 4 lety +7

    Lost some respect for Rippletits after this. Clearly shows that he lacks perspective.

  • @NolsMix1
    @NolsMix1 Před 2 lety

    holy fuck rip...breathe much?

    • @NolsMix1
      @NolsMix1 Před 2 lety

      sitting on ur ass the whole time...breathing like you ran up 10 flights of stairs. strong tho. strong

  • @massivojohnson
    @massivojohnson Před 7 lety +1

    How can rip say that he is not in the business of getting people stronger who want to stay in a certain weight. what if you are an athlete in a combat sport.. where weight makes a HUGE difference in you getting hurt. Those athletes NEED to be as strong as they can but stay at the peak of their weight catagory.. if they move up then they are going to suffer. Its easy for him to say... yay just fight at the higher weight.. but people cut weight then fire it on to a MAD amount.. those guys are naturally much bigger and heavier than the poor lad who just crept into that category.

    • @ChristianCorrectionsCorporal
      @ChristianCorrectionsCorporal Před 7 lety +2

      I have the feeling Rip denies a lot of clients that don't follow his philosophy. Nothing wrong with that and he seems to have made it alright without the extra business.

  • @TIKOMIX
    @TIKOMIX Před 7 lety +5

    Prometheus was shit.

    • @BigUriel
      @BigUriel Před 7 lety +1

      It was alright but X-Men Apocalypse was better!

  • @ArnoldJudasRimmer
    @ArnoldJudasRimmer Před 4 lety +1

    His take on PTSD is interesting given he likes to evaluate evidence and champions logic and rationality. What he says about PTSD is fucking ignorant and he ought to be ashamed of that or at least admit he's joking.

  • @Tom_Het
    @Tom_Het Před 5 lety

    "Hey mark I want to stop strength training. Do you have advice on how I can not train?"
    What a stupid question. I'm surprised he even answered.