Pretty much, yeah. I’m keeping that statement to the top division(s) of male athletics. And I’m speaking only about the competitive aspect of this, not the social justice aspect.

The strange thing is, the whole m-f trans issue should have no impact on conservative-leaning men, ie: the ones who are often the loudest about this issue. F-M transitions will never have a meaningful impact on male sports, and they don’t actually care about the social or competitive issues of female sports. This…

I heartily approve. 

Buying one because you love them is fine. Buying one with the intention of driving around an infant in a car seat is actively irresponsible. 

Awful take.

The Avengers aren’t the only entities that look at their timeline as pre and post ‘snap’. 

Woof...5/3/1. But, whatever works for you. 

Like everyone, you have to pick and choose, some more than others, what you want to steal. SS’s deadlift coaching and set up is the best I’ve seen (for conventional), and their low bar squat set up is very good also. Bench is fine... It’s not a complicated movement, and the hip thrust on the press is fine.

That’s a good way of describing it, actually.

Neat. BBM left SS because they butted heads with Rip's bs. So you would like their stuff. 

I don’t think I’ve ever seen this type of idea before, and if this helps you, bully for you! But this is actually reminiscent of tonnage (weight*reps*sets), which is used in a number of successful programming types.

I think you’re misunderstanding what RPE is. Every useful, productive, progressive overload program on Earth uses “partial effort”, be it RPE-based or percentage-based training. They have to in order to be successfully implemented, because you can’t progress at balls-to-the-wall training over time. Injury and burnout…

Intuition would tell you that form breakdown will lead to injury. There isn’t objective evidence that this is the case. I would say, if you’re breaking down terrible, every single lift, every single workout, you have a bad program or you need to pull yourself back, because you’re introducing a level of stress that…

Once you’re past initial training and a year or more into training, the weight on the bar, on that exercise, on that given day, to a large degree doesn’t matter, within a range. What matters is your ability to introduce a useful stress over the course of multiple weeks in which you can recover and adapt. RPE is useful…

Properly utilized RPE uses objective thresholds. It’s simply a tool to inform the thresholds you have in place on that given day/set. 

It’s almost like percentage-based and RPE-based training are both incredibly effective! 

If anyone wants to get more familiar with RPE and how to apply it to training, Barbell Medicine is a great resource. Led by a couple of MD’s who are powerlifters (who grew out of, butted heads with, and left Starting Strength). They are not perfect, and I’d advise anyone to not religiously follow only one point of…

That’s their right, but it isn't guacamole at that point. Some kind of avocado sauce. 

Cilantro ‘maybe’? Holding back the cilantro is fine, but it isn’t guacamole anymore. 

Toyota has remained surprisingly consistent with that ad campaign, dropping “Jan’s” name a few times, but nothing more than that, really. I too, noticed her and the campaign, and the pregnancy, and was similarly impressed (and moreso, when they kept running with her after she came back from, presumably, leave).