LogFAQs > #979468484

emblem-man posted...

I'm guessing there's just no way to smartly train yourself into gaining large muscles with only 30 minutes a day, 3-4x a week right?

30 minutes is really pushing it. I mean that's like just my warmup and squat sets.

45 minutes is doable though for sure. There's a guy on reddit who has been training this way for 10 years and he's swole as fuck (/u/mythicalstrength). There's no secret really, he just trains with an eye watering level of intensity. Imagine doing sets of deadlifts for 10 repetitions and then without any break going into sets of 20 squats, and then sets of overhead press, and then pullups, and then 30 seconds rest and then repeat. That's how he trains. Over time he just built up a ridiculous work capacity, so he squeezes in so much density in his workouts.

Is Rippletoes Starting strength still a thing? I'm still slightly annoyed at the amount of time I wasted doing the whole Starting Strength workout. Should have just done a bro split like everyone else instead of wasting time when I was young.
I mean, it's a fine program. I was just lying to myself when I told myself I cared more about strength than aesthetics.

More people should be honest about their goals for sure. I think a lot of people want to pretend they're into "functional" strength but what they really mean is "I want to look jacked but also do cool stuff like flip tractor tyres".

Starting strength still exists, but it's taken a beating in terms of reputation and it's not the routine people recommend anymore. Eventually people figured out that if you train minimally and only in one way then you only get minimal and specific results. A coach potato with no sports history should do a bunch of stuff other than squats for sets of 5 if they ever plan on becoming halfway athletic.

A great program that does a better job of reaching the goals for novices than SS does is GZCLP. It basically keeps the workouts quite simple but has more volume, addresses deloads better and allows a range of rep ranges, intensity and variation.