This is sound advice. I'm 54 and keep my reps between 3-5 for just 2 sets - minus warm up sets of course. Sometimes one. Volume makes me too sore. My days of bodybuilding and collision sports are over. I survived. I squat, dead, etc.. to stay sane and maintain : )
Mark, Always loved your training program and training philosophy. After a long winter of lifting and Mtn. biking, and summer of solely Mtn biking, last night I did your core workout movements again and actually missed them. At age 56, with a hip replacement and necrosis in my major joints, I’ve found your program to be of tremendous help, but as you say in this video, too much volume does and has caused just more inflammation in my joints. For me, alternating workout weeks with two weeks or more of rest, seems to work best. Godspeed to you and as Goggins says, Stay Hard!
Rip speaks the truth . After a active 63 year of training for rock climbing, Running ,triathlons.karate since 76.. fixed and maintained my shoulders during the novice progression. I have read and reread the books after learning hard lessons. My youthful mind has written volume checks my 63 yr. year old ass can’t cash. If you hurt ,you’re still alive! Hurting an Being strong may be all I can hope for. Purely medicinal inoculations of either Buffalo Trace or Knob Creek help make it bearable. And Covid free.
Being 58 and just discovering Starting Strength I am learning. Never did low bar squats. After watching the instructional videos and reading Starting Strength I am enjoying a different way of training. I have set some all time personal bests bench press and deadlift 1 rep max lifts. This video gave me good direction. Thank you for all your videos.
Guys, is ripp dying??? Whys he being so nice and understanding? This was rational and humble and yielding in ways that are not of the Rippetoe nature. Oh yeah, its 2020...things are suppose to be weird this year.
Yeah, I remember watching a seminar and a guy asked the same thing like "What would you recommend for just maintenance?" and the response was "Getting your testosterone levels checked"
Same as you. I’m 50 and in many ways stronger than ever. I tried the maintenance route and going lighter with higher reps but it’s boring as fuck. So, I toss on more weight and forget it. It’s not a competition but I find it a little funny I lift more than most guys half my age. Lol
I have idea, this goal of being able to deadlift 500 lbs someday. I am 49, 165 lbs. I might be too late in life to get my 345 current max there, but gosh darn it, I am going to try!
I'm 66, and in a typical week I do heavy singles, plus 40-80 reps at 65-75%, on each of the main lifts; plus about a dozen different accessories (curls, flyes, shrugs, etc.) for 4 sets of 8 to12 each; plus 2-3 hours of cardio. I'm stronger than ever, fitter than I've been in quite a few years, and feeling great. It's sad that Mark Rippetoe is in pain and takes 2.5 hours to get through squats, and I understand how it can be that way for some, but it positively doesn't have to be that way for all older trainees!
The men on the beaches of Normandy did not maintain a stretch of beach; they plowed on, shot to bits, and took over the dunes and everything beyond. They should have taken down the Soviet Union, too. What if they landed on the beach and after heavy resistance from the bunkers up ahead looked at each other and said, "Gee whiz, progress is so hard; let's stick around this part 'ver here and maintain." A shell burst between them and that ended that conversation. "Get your balls checked," the sergeant yelled, his arm dangling off by a piece of tendon. "Get up the beach! Take the fuckers down." A few men heard him over the machine-gun fire and charged after him. One of them ran on a stump of flesh that a moment before had been his foot. This is my way of trying to involve WWII into every comment I make on the SS channel, especially now with tyrants everywhere, tyrants who have you muzzled up like a rabid dog, close your business, and in every other way fuck up the world. I quit my job yesterday refusing a mask, so I got plenty of time to comment and leave my bottom 3% and when I'm done with this I got plenty of time to prepare for other shit to come. Death before slavery and progress before death. Maintenance is boring. It's what you do with plumbing. You maintain the plumbing in your house. If you maintain your life, what sort of life is that?! So what if it takes 2.5 hours to squat. It's more than what a whole lot of other folks do or will ever do. Quite a few find it funny to loot and riot and throw bricks at others and they spend all the night doing that. How very communal of them. But I have digressed somewhat. (All of the above is pure sarcasm. These days you have to specifically mention this, because people have no sense of humor anymore.)
I think this advice needs to be echoed a lot more in the rest of the entire fitness industry. Lifting for looks is one thing, but lifting for strength is another. This is for our health. And if at 60 you ain't gonna get a recommendation to "rep it out" or do more sets due to inflammation, recovery time, injury creep, etc., then neither should a young healthy lifter. Not a scrawny 18-year-old, or an untrained chubby 24-year-old. Reps of 5, sets of 3. And unless you're advanced, stay away from shit that just doesn't help. Novice linear progression should be enough to get a person into a healthy range of weight and strength, to carry shit without injury, to still be virile and have the heart pumping better than being untrained.
Why not do 3 to 4 progressive warm-up sets, and one working set for 6 to 10 reps to positive failure? Next week, go up 5 lbs on the same exercise for at lesst 6 reps. Once you can complete more than 10 reps with that weight, go up 5 pounds in the next workout. You don't have physically beat yourself down to get stronger as you age. 💪😃👍
that sounds so fucked up - slowly not being able to handle doing what you could do easily and instead regressing, while effort is futile and will never reverse this process
RIP WHY DON'T YOU USE TRT? WOULD YOU DO AN EPISODE ABOUT TRT WITH AN ESTABLISHED TRT DOCTOR LIKE DR RAND OR DR. OÇONNOR? THANKS FOR THE VIDEOS AND INFORMATION. HAVE A FANTASTIC DAY!!!!
Hmmm. The bar bell medicine guys have a different take. Volume may not be so bad. I think Rip might be extrapolating from his own experience? Everyone is different.
@@johnnysquiretube shit im only 32 and natty and I can't take volume anymore. Might not ever pull 600 and that's ok with me. Might never squat 550 and that's ok too. I want to be able to pull 5 squat 4 and bench 3 into my 50s
@@swiftla if he now supports RPE then that is new. Look for the class he took where he ridiculed it when Thrall asked him. He literally treated Alan Thrall like he asked the dumbest question in the world. That sort of attitude is why SS is a cult and Rip is it's cult of personality leader.
wtf happened?...I was waiting till the very end to hear something like "Im just kidding douschebag, get your ass together and hit the gym hard 3x times per week with 3x5 ." Am I missing something? :D
Go swimming 🏊♂️ Doug Brignole, author Pbysics of Resistance Training, reviews weigjt traing excercises that will noy beat you up as much as the style of training Rip is moaning about. Have fun, get strong.🏋️♂️🌟
Everything hurts you Rip because you have prejudices agains cannabis. Drop some Rick Simpson oil made from Northern Lighs from Sensi Seeds and look what happened with your stiffness and pain.
This is sound advice. I'm 54 and keep my reps between 3-5 for just 2 sets - minus warm up sets of course. Sometimes one. Volume makes me too sore. My days of bodybuilding and collision sports are over. I survived. I squat, dead, etc.. to stay sane and maintain : )
Respect for adressing these topics. I do not think any other fitness buisness does.
Mark,
Always loved your training program and training philosophy. After a long winter of lifting and Mtn. biking, and summer of solely Mtn biking, last night I did your core workout movements again and actually missed them. At age 56, with a hip replacement and necrosis in my major joints, I’ve found your program to be of tremendous help, but as you say in this video, too much volume does and has caused just more inflammation in my joints. For me, alternating workout weeks with two weeks or more of rest, seems to work best. Godspeed to you and as Goggins says, Stay Hard!
God bless you Rip, making me tear up on a Friday night: Thank you for everything.
Thank you Rip. This is definitely helpful and sensible.
Great advice as always Rip : you have saved me so much pain 👍
This is one of your best and most informative yet Rip. Good stuff.
Rip speaks the truth . After a active 63 year of training for rock climbing, Running ,triathlons.karate since 76.. fixed and maintained my shoulders during the novice progression. I have read and reread the books after learning hard lessons. My youthful mind has written volume checks my 63 yr. year old ass can’t cash. If you hurt ,you’re still alive! Hurting an Being strong may be all I can hope for. Purely medicinal inoculations of either Buffalo Trace or Knob Creek help make it bearable. And Covid free.
Being 58 and just discovering Starting Strength I am learning. Never did low bar squats. After watching the instructional videos and reading Starting Strength I am enjoying a different way of training. I have set some all time personal bests bench press and deadlift 1 rep max lifts.
This video gave me good direction.
Thank you for all your videos.
Very honest, feet on the ground!!! Thank you, more videos please.
Guys, is ripp dying??? Whys he being so nice and understanding? This was rational and humble and yielding in ways that are not of the Rippetoe nature.
Oh yeah, its 2020...things are suppose to be weird this year.
Yeah, I remember watching a seminar and a guy asked the same thing like "What would you recommend for just maintenance?" and the response was "Getting your testosterone levels checked"
@@Steve-dv4hy 😅 that's more like it!
the dude asking is old, so It's a lot different than a 25 year old asking how to maintain his strength.
@@martensit7847 yeah, but still...
@@JoshBenware yeah, but still what? Different situations call for different responses. Are you not intelligent enough to understand that?
Rip's right but... I'm crazy. I'm still chasing PRs. Going in I'm the old man I am but when I leave I feel great ! Lifting more than I ever have.
Same as you. I’m 50 and in many ways stronger than ever. I tried the maintenance route and going lighter with higher reps but it’s boring as fuck. So, I toss on more weight and forget it. It’s not a competition but I find it a little funny I lift more than most guys half my age. Lol
Long live, Rip!
Honest answer coach. Hopefully most of us will be lifting for many years to come. I am now in my mid forties and I enjoy it more than my twenties.
Great video
I have idea, this goal of being able to deadlift 500 lbs someday. I am 49, 165 lbs. I might be too late in life to get my 345 current max there, but gosh darn it, I am going to try!
You can totally do it.
Gallon of milk 🥛
Gain 75 pounds or it will be impossible
Gain more weight 💪
Damn, Rip is dead on. I’m 53 & I’m @ this point already
Look at Andy Baker's training without a plan. Good maintenance plan, maybe a little increase.
The only way to maintain is to work.....the core
I'm 66, and in a typical week I do heavy singles, plus 40-80 reps at 65-75%, on each of the main lifts; plus about a dozen different accessories (curls, flyes, shrugs, etc.) for 4 sets of 8 to12 each; plus 2-3 hours of cardio. I'm stronger than ever, fitter than I've been in quite a few years, and feeling great. It's sad that Mark Rippetoe is in pain and takes 2.5 hours to get through squats, and I understand how it can be that way for some, but it positively doesn't have to be that way for all older trainees!
He was competitive powerlifter, his body is all beaten up.
Does Rip only train once a week?
The men on the beaches of Normandy did not maintain a stretch of beach; they plowed on, shot to bits, and took over the dunes and everything beyond. They should have taken down the Soviet Union, too. What if they landed on the beach and after heavy resistance from the bunkers up ahead looked at each other and said, "Gee whiz, progress is so hard; let's stick around this part 'ver here and maintain." A shell burst between them and that ended that conversation.
"Get your balls checked," the sergeant yelled, his arm dangling off by a piece of tendon. "Get up the beach! Take the fuckers down." A few men heard him over the machine-gun fire and charged after him. One of them ran on a stump of flesh that a moment before had been his foot.
This is my way of trying to involve WWII into every comment I make on the SS channel, especially now with tyrants everywhere, tyrants who have you muzzled up like a rabid dog, close your business, and in every other way fuck up the world. I quit my job yesterday refusing a mask, so I got plenty of time to comment and leave my bottom 3% and when I'm done with this I got plenty of time to prepare for other shit to come. Death before slavery and progress before death. Maintenance is boring. It's what you do with plumbing. You maintain the plumbing in your house. If you maintain your life, what sort of life is that?! So what if it takes 2.5 hours to squat. It's more than what a whole lot of other folks do or will ever do. Quite a few find it funny to loot and riot and throw bricks at others and they spend all the night doing that. How very communal of them. But I have digressed somewhat.
(All of the above is pure sarcasm. These days you have to specifically mention this, because people have no sense of humor anymore.)
They should have landed in vladivostock and given lend lease to germany instead of forcing japan to attack them and bring them in on the wrong side.
I think this advice needs to be echoed a lot more in the rest of the entire fitness industry. Lifting for looks is one thing, but lifting for strength is another. This is for our health. And if at 60 you ain't gonna get a recommendation to "rep it out" or do more sets due to inflammation, recovery time, injury creep, etc., then neither should a young healthy lifter. Not a scrawny 18-year-old, or an untrained chubby 24-year-old. Reps of 5, sets of 3. And unless you're advanced, stay away from shit that just doesn't help. Novice linear progression should be enough to get a person into a healthy range of weight and strength, to carry shit without injury, to still be virile and have the heart pumping better than being untrained.
Why not do 3 to 4 progressive warm-up sets, and one working set for 6 to 10 reps to positive failure? Next week, go up 5 lbs on the same exercise for at lesst 6 reps. Once you can complete more than 10 reps with that weight, go up 5 pounds in the next workout. You don't have physically beat yourself down to get stronger as you age. 💪😃👍
that sounds so fucked up - slowly not being able to handle doing what you could do easily and instead regressing, while effort is futile and will never reverse this process
RIP WHY DON'T YOU USE TRT? WOULD YOU DO AN EPISODE ABOUT TRT WITH AN ESTABLISHED TRT DOCTOR LIKE DR RAND OR DR. OÇONNOR? THANKS FOR THE VIDEOS AND INFORMATION. HAVE A FANTASTIC DAY!!!!
He’s on trt isn’t he? I know he’s a big proponent of it.
@e.e no, not gear. I mean I think he said he’s on replacement now.
The majority of natural advanced lifters are just "maintaining their strength", after 3-4 years of consistent training its so hard to get stronger.
This right here 🤘
Rip should give the carnivore diet a try. Doing 0 carb for a month is all it takes to get a feel for what it means to have healthy joints
This is low key one of the most depressing videos on this channel
Step over to the Greysteel channel, and you'll feel better.
Its realistic. We all get old, if we are lucky but nobody wants to talk about it
@@dickjohnson5025 i meant more about how lifting is a chore for him instead of a pleasure
@@DanteWolfwood I totally get that but no one talks aging and lifo
How old are you?
Hmmm. The bar bell medicine guys have a different take. Volume may not be so bad. I think Rip might be extrapolating from his own experience? Everyone is different.
Nice way to avoid the censor filter "bar ell medicine"
@@Huffman_Tree corrected. Interesting to see how they would censor Barbell on a weightlifting site but you never know...
Those guys have no clue about old guys. Period. Serious volume fetishists. Ignore them safely if you're over 45.
@@johnnysquiretube shit im only 32 and natty and I can't take volume anymore. Might not ever pull 600 and that's ok with me. Might never squat 550 and that's ok too. I want to be able to pull 5 squat 4 and bench 3 into my 50s
@@swiftla if he now supports RPE then that is new. Look for the class he took where he ridiculed it when Thrall asked him. He literally treated Alan Thrall like he asked the dumbest question in the world. That sort of attitude is why SS is a cult and Rip is it's cult of personality leader.
I am an old woman stavin off death. Thank you
This is the only reason RPE should ever be used.
wtf happened?...I was waiting till the very end to hear something like "Im just kidding douschebag, get your ass together and hit the gym hard 3x times per week with 3x5 ." Am I missing something? :D
Could this video be any more depressing ? Watch this video after you workout, not before.
Go swimming 🏊♂️ Doug Brignole, author Pbysics of Resistance Training, reviews weigjt traing excercises that will noy beat you up as much as the style of training Rip is moaning about. Have fun, get strong.🏋️♂️🌟
Wow, what did that look like before the edits?
Rippetoe’s injuries are mostly from bicycle, motorcycle, and horseback riding accidents.
Everything hurts you Rip because you have prejudices agains cannabis. Drop some Rick Simpson oil made from Northern Lighs from Sensi Seeds and look what happened with your stiffness and pain.
Marijuana is a communist drug