Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)

@BeeTee2887

Husband. Father. Starting Strength Coach. Below knee amputee; God is good.

Ohio, USA

Joined April 2022

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · 9 h

Training is really a collection of data points across time. It’s why you should track your training—all of it. After last weeks 280, I thought 282.5 might be the play, but I loaded up 285 anyway. It was a data point that I ignored. This failed rep is a bummer, but it’s my own…

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · 10 h

I feel bad for people like her. She has no idea none of this will count since she didn’t use cuffs. Embarrassing.

DDeep Squats, Shallow Thoughts@wolfstrength · 11 h

IFBB pro Ms. Olympia competitor turned best female powerlifter of all time who probably has more muscle at a lower bodyfat than you and squats and deadlifts over 600 lbs each, has a message about your stupid cuffs that I wanted to share.

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 27

No, brother. They don’t. None of them.

SSam Krapf@sam_gzstrength · Jul 27

You people do understand sarcasm and inside jokes right?

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 25

Guys will literally anything except run their squat to 405.

TTaraBull@TaraBull808 · Jul 25

Serial 'butt sniffer' arrested multiple times for smelling random women in public

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 24

Best way to get your bench up is to lose a leg so you don't have to squat or pull

SSam Krapf@sam_gzstrength · Jul 24

Best way to get your bench up is to lose a leg so you don't have to squat or pull

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 24

A good way to make your 10s go up is to get your 5s up. Surprised I can still count past 5, honestly.

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 24

Getting strong under the barbell has been the single best decision I could have ever made. I’m a very short guy with a small frame. But getting in the gym and putting on the muscle I have totally shaped my adult years. You get so much more than bigger muscles, from dedicated…

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 23

Tried the Wolverine thing and bitched out hard. Hurt a lot.

DDennis The Professor@DennisTheProf · Jul 23

Why is your left calf so skinny?

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 23

A client just asked me if he could get to 400lbs on his squat. I told him, 405 is the number. 400 basically doesn’t even count. 🤷🏻‍♂️

SSam Krapf@sam_gzstrength · Jul 23

When my buddy is celebrating his 400lb deadlift PR when he was just 5lbs away from 4 plates

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 23

I realize I undersold this painting pretty hard. Used to work with a guy at a lumber yard who delivered for us, part time--Marty Roper. He was a semi-retired artist who was a painter, really, but had spent the latter years of his career created cards for Hallmark. Big, jolly,…

BBruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 22

As long as Big Bruce is watching, I know I’m safe. A very cool gift from an old co-worker after my accident.

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 22

As long as Big Bruce is watching, I know I’m safe. A very cool gift from an old co-worker after my accident.

BBruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 22

Many of the guys who scoff at @sam_gzstrength for his Standards 1.0™️will also say that I am fat because I don’t have a chiseled 6-pack. I think a connection can be drawn here… 2x3@280

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 22

Many of the guys who scoff at @sam_gzstrength for his Standards 1.0™️will also say that I am fat because I don’t have a chiseled 6-pack. I think a connection can be drawn here… 2x3@280

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 21

Many gym goers think bigger muscles and getting stronger are two totally separate things.

MMike Lifts@mikeoniron · Jul 21

IMO They don’t practice progressive overload.

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 21

Having a prolonged moment of sadness, or something akin to, is fairly rare. However, the reality that my leg is gone is one that smacks me in the face almost always. There’s an old joke—I think Mitch Hedberg—about wearing a turtle neck; it’s like being strangled by a really…

AArths Malus 🇺🇸@ArthusMalus · Jul 21

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 20

The cope in the comments is too good. Like with most everything in life... Whether you think you can or can't, you're right. If more people just did the program instead of arguing about whether it works or not, we'd have far less weak people walking around.

SSam Krapf@sam_gzstrength · Jul 19

A 135 Press, 225 Bench, 315 squat, and 405 Deadlift isn't "strong" as much as it is "not weak"

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 15

At the seminar this past weekend, a handful of attendees had a hard time understanding the bar path in The Squat™️. Your body has a Center of Mass and the barbell has a Center of Mass. When we put a barbell on our back this new Lifter/Barbell System has a new 'Combined Center…

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 18

If you want a generally irritated balding guy who doesn't walk real great anymore, to call you a pussy while you squat, I'm probably a lot cheaper than Rip. brucetroutbarbellclub.com

SSam Krapf@sam_gzstrength · Jul 18

It's effective to take every set you do under the bar like Uncle Rip is watching you during the "Around the Room" at The Seminar

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Bruce Trout, SSC (Hop-a-Long)@BeeTee2887 · Jul 17

Was pretty drained after the seminar this past weekend. This volume day felt like trash. But that’s why you record your work—this moved much better than it felt like it did. 4x5@245

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