Rip discusses Tanner Shuck’s journey from football player to CrossFit athlete to coach. They delve into the issues with high-intensity workouts focused on speed and maximum reps, highlighting how these practices often lead to injuries and why they don’t qualify as effective training.
- 00:28 – Tanner Shuck’s history and Rip’s CrossFit days
- 07:22 – CrossFit isn’t training
- 14:47 – Why strength makes things better
- 20:13 – Complexity
- 27:04 – Tanner’s experience
- 36:47 – Starting Strength standardization
- 48:14 – When Tanner started reading Starting Strength
- 56:06 – Very few advanced trainees
- 59:51 – When Rip figured it out
- 1:07:55 – Gaining to get stronger