#122 - Don't Call It Come Back! Power Cleans for the Masters Lifter
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Coach D and Coach Trent are back (finally) with a new episode, broadcasting from THE Wichita Falls Athletic Club, the home of Mark Rippetoe and the birthplace of the Starting Strength model. Today they discuss the role of the power clean for the Masters lifter -- should you be doing it? Should you skip it? What's the point anyway? While the power clean is a very useful tool for the young athlete, especially in power-based sports such as football, hockey, or track and field sports, it's application to real life for the older lifter is less obvious. Basically, the clean is a fairly simple...
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#121 - We're Back!
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After a several month hiatus, Darin and Trent are back with 40fit Radio!
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#120 - ALL or NOTHING: Getting Away from the Extremes in Your Health and Fitness
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Coach Darin has said it before, humans like to "complicate to validate." The bigger, faster, more complex, more "science-y," the better! Right? Likewise, the idea that fitness is an intense, all-in pursuit pervades media and popular training programs. Frankly, it's exhausting!
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#119 - Coaches' Corner: Low Stress Programming for Intermediate Lifters
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Darin, Trent, and Charity convene for another coaches corner, this time offering some strategies for lowering systemic stress while programming for the intermediate lifter.
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#118 - Exploring the Micronutrients: Vitamins and Minerals
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Coach D and Trent discuss the most important vitamins you should be getting from your diet and supplements.
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#117 - Why You Should Stop Worrying About PR's
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Coach D, Trent, and Charity discuss the tendency of strength coaches and athletes to get hung up chasing PR's on the bar, and missing the forest for the trees -- that is, the greater PR's in life such as raising good families, growing mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
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#116 - Cardio Is Not a Magic Bullet
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It's January, and that means there are millions of people trying to make good on their New Years' Resolutions. For many, this resolution involves losing weight, cutting body fat, and "leaning up." And predictably many resolutioners first instinct is to hit the cardio machines -- treadmills, ellipticals, exercise bikes, etc.
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#115 - Getting Back Into the Gym After COVID
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Coach Charity Hambrick returns to the show to discuss her experience contracting COVID-19 and her slow road to get back into training afterward. Though she contracted COVID back in October 2020, Charity had lingering fatigue and muscle cramps for weeks, and loss of smell that lasted for over three months. Despite the mental blow of losing her training momentum -- she had been setting PR's just prior to getting COVID -- Charity has consistently hit the gym and is regaining her strength levels.
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#114 - Masters Programming: Volume vs Intensity for Longevity
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In today's episode, Coach D and Coach Trent discuss the concept of selecting appropriate volume and intensity for a Masters athlete. These are two of the main programming variables, and all athletes need a blend of intensity (heavy-ness) and volume (how many reps) to drive adaptation in their desired physical skill: strength, conditioning, hypertrophy, etc. And in general, both intensity and volume must go up over time to increase the amount of stress and therefore drive more adaptation.
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#113 - Getting Warm When the Weather Is Cold
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In the strength community, the typical advice for warmups is to start with the first barbell lift you will be performing. For many people this will be the squat, so the warm-up would consist of two sets of five with the empty bar, then a few progressively heavier sets until the lifter is ready for his working sets. It's quick, efficient, and, prepares most lifters for the task at hand -- squatting. Masters athletes, however, may find that they need more than the barbell to get warm before their workout.
info_outlineCoach D delivers an overview of total joint replacements, their effectiveness, their limitations, and the considerations for training before and after surgery.
Modern medicine has developed artificial joints which can replace damaged or worn out joints in the human body, often with great results. As new materials have been introduced to the protheses, artificial joints have become lighter, more durable, more functional with greater range of motion, and longer lasting. However, they do have a shelf life, and the biological interface of organic human tissue with the replacement eventually fails. Therefore trainees should consider a number of factors before deciding to undergo joint replacement, including whether they are a good candidate for joint replacement (based on their symptoms and current level of strength and fitness), their health and fitness goals, the expected lifespan of the replacement and whether they can or want to undergo a second surgery to replace the artificial joint at the end of its lifespan, etc.
Darin shares some of his 30 years of clinical experience with hip, knee, and shoulder replacements in how to navigate these factors, and what to do after you have decided to undergo joint replacement.
Training and the Artificial Joint by John Petrizzo, DPT
https://startingstrength.com/article/training-and-the-artificial-joint
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