How to pick stuff up | Mark Rippetoe

Mark Rippetoe, author of Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, shows you how to avoid a back injury by explaining the proper and safest way to pick up non-barbell shaped objects at home and at work.

[miguelrmusic]

I need Rip's voice in my car's navigation system. Make it happen

[DanManThePurple]

Ever since I’ve watched this video. I’ve been picking up things left and right! My house has never been in such tip top shape and I’ve lost 25 pounds!! My wife left me

[TheHaiku]

You know it's gonna be good when he starts with "uncle Rippy."

[TrempBoy]

4:45 - Just imagined Uncle Rippie collapsing on the floor in pain with a slipped disk after demonstrating how not to do it

[RedSanjuro]

But Uncle Rip, how do I put stuff down?

[ltheone]

I hurt my myself when I twisted my back while lifting a 25 kg onion sack. I cured it by working as a construction laborer for 3 months after having severe back pain for at least six months. I started lifting a few years after that and was able to squat and deadlift 2 times my bodyweight with no back pain whatsoever before busting my left knee playing ball with my son...

[Caaarrl]

just deadlifted my dog
i want to pick him up so will attempt to power clean him next

[michaelgarcia]

I have been a mover for over 10 yrs and I always have incorporated my lifting techniques in moving furniture. I can go up flights of stairs with 5 boxes on my back, completely over head press a recliner sofa to get around a corner, push a baby grand, standing piano up a ramp and take em up flights of stairs. Any how ever thing rip is saying is dead on like always! One more thing I have worked with guys who went to the gym and lifted, but could not last a day or weak as school girls compared to the old school movers who are drunks and do drugs and were hung over. It is pretty amazing

[xxFR]

i feel like this is one of je the major reasons why anyone would benefit of learning the deadlift. it teaches you how to always keep your spine safe and how to lift efficiently for the rest of your life!!

[erebus]

Thank you for your wisdom, uncle Rippie.

[aleidius]

"How to pick stuff up" from the world's foremost authority!

[dessertstorm]

the govt. posters don't advise the hip hinge either. They always advise you to squat all the way down and lift the whole thing with your legs. Stuff like this gets in the public consciousness and convinces people that deadlifting is a dangerous exercise.

[glockrtf-mjgh]

Haha the best way not to get hurt at work is to let someone else pick up the heavy stuff

[ladev]

Where did that viking man child come from

[dimitarmihov]

Can you imagine a virtual companion / A.I. with Rip's voice AND character? It would be awesome...

[XxfinalfearxX]

Uncle Rippey touching us with profound knowlege on this day. Different from your other uncles, this uncle wants you to tell your mom and dad how he touched you, so mom and dad dont get low back pain.

[ZeGreatBamboozle]

Got a piano and a stand-up bass in the back? Rippetoe and the Company performs after the gym closes?

[nemanjaradeta]

A very important overlooked life skill

[butters]

Yeah my back was aching from work today. Good timing on the video. I will use this advice Habitually at work Uncle Rip.

[michaelkarayan]

Hahaha "uncle Rippy is here". Excellent form on the captain Morgan pose, chief