I've been to the depths of Shambala and 2 out of 3 judges gave me a red light.

Please keep a piece of paper in Rip’s hands to occupy his pinching claws

"If it's not sufficiently cryptic, it's not impressive to them." Golden, right there. This applies to so many fields and behaviors. I'm thinking especially of postmodernism and critical theory in Academia. Mysticism and obscurantism work on simple-minded and weak people, because it SEEMS complicated, but doesn't demand hard work, just a lot of handwaving.

The five step deadlift is the most valuable piece of information on the internet and it is from Starting strength 🙌

This is the pre-eminent non-typical fitness channel on Youtube: no flexing of roided-up muscles, no shirts off, no days of eating, the drama is contained to the comments from the haters down below here where they accumulate (some call it Hell or Purgatory, where the 3% are waiting to be judged), the comments from viewers can be unusually witty (they just ooze superiority of mind), no mind-muscle rants, very little tattoos I can see, no bold claims about inches of growth in a couple of weeks, no fake plates, no hoes strutting around like strumpets when the camera is rolling, no grunting, no posing (or very little thereof: I still can't unsee Rip doing poses during one of these), and Rip's guns are definitely not what built this channel. You know, every other fitness channel is built on the guns. All Rip has is those puppies -- he's talking about them now before the 5-minute mark even -- and he's got that monstrous lobster claw with which he grabs your attention and doesn't let go. It's hypnotizing. It's ... Friday.

"There is no one, in this world, who has ever loved you.  Especially after what you did, no one will EVER love you in the future either."   ha ha ha

The standard has been set for comments from the haters!

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Alan Thrall is a Starting Strength coach. Correct me if I am wrong. Rippetoe has the credit for 5 step setup. Also - Barbell Medicine, Barbell Logic, Untamed Strength - check out where the guys are coming from.

"No one will ever love you" omfg I can't even function I'm lol so hard.  I think that is the funniest thing I've ever heard.  Stitches and tears...

As I cook my fried chicken, after my new pr deadlift.  Thanks rip and ss crew

I think a series where Rip debunks stupid stuff doctors and scientists commonly do and say should be created since that would be quite amusing.

Rippys hip flexors must be so tight sitting down for so long

Lol Allan Thrall's (former SSC) deadlift is even titled : Starting Strength 5 steps deadlift. But sure he got robbed lmao.

Love this podcast, been binging them lately. Wish I heard some of the knowledge from rip a lot earlier.

If it's complicated, you can blame the process being too complicated. If it's simple you can blame noone but yourself

[Snaps fingers continuously while silently whispering]
"Hate Hate Hate"

That last comment had the hate with the intensity of a 1000 suns.

Complex things are refined to concepts and then principles. Starting Strength is a very complex set of observations refined to a principle. In order to understand the principle they have to absorb the underlying observations. Most people won’t-you haven’t read the book-so they look to pragmatism, to concretes in order to avoid what they have been told is dogma. Variety appeals because it seems to have a better chance of working than a principle they don’t understand, or trust. In other words, life is complicated, it’s not black and white, so therefore any solution must be complex.

The doctor told me the same thing about my liver enzymes being extremely elevated. She was convinced that I was an alcoholic. I told her that I “Powerlift” and she seemed obviously bewildered by the possibility that the two things could be connected.

Holy fuck, I love these podcasts

People who hate rip do so because he knows more than they and their current guru does combined.