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Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition Paperback – November 11, 2011

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Starting Strength has been called the best and most useful of fitness books. The second edition, Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, sold over 80,000 copies in a competitive global market for fitness education. Along with Practical Programming for Strength Training 2nd Edition, they form a simple, logical, and practical approach to strength training. Now, after six more years of testing and adjustment with thousands of athletes in seminars all over the country, the updated third edition expands and improves on the previous teaching methods and biomechanical analysis. No other book on barbell training ever written provides the detailed instruction on every aspect of the basic barbell exercises found in SS:BBT3. And while the methods for implementing barbell training detailed in the book are primarily aimed at young athletes, they have been successfully applied to everyone: young and old, male and female, fit and flabby, sick and healthy, weak and already strong. Many people all over the world have used the simple biological principle of stress/recovery/adaptation on which this method is based to improve their performance, their appearance, and their long-term health. With over 150,000 copies in print in three editions, Starting Strength is the most important method available to learn the most effective way to train with barbells -- the most important way to improve your strength, your health, and your life.

-- Why barbells are the most effective tools for strength training.
-- The mechanical basis of barbell training, concisely and logically explained.
-- All new photographs and improved illustrations of all the lifts, and the biomechanics behind them.
-- Complete, easy-to-follow instructions for performing the basic barbell exercises: the squat, press, deadlift, bench press, power clean, and the power snatch.
-- Revised instruction methods for all six lifts, proven effective in four years of seminar, military, and group instruction.
-- How the human body adapts to stress through recovery, and why this is the foundation of the development of strength and lifetime health.
-- How to program the basic exercises into the most effective program for long-term progress.
-- Completely indexed.
-- The most productive method in existence for anyone beginning a strength training program.

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Mark Rippetoe is the author of Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, Practical Programming for Strength Training 2nd edition, Strong Enough?, Mean Ol' Mr. Gravity, and numerous journal, magazine and internet articles. He has worked in the fitness industry since 1978, and has been the owner of the Wichita Falls Athletic Club since 1984. He graduated from Midwestern State University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science in geology and a minor in anthropology. He was in the first group certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a CSCS in 1985, and the first to formally relinquish that credential in 2009. Rip was a competitive powerlifter for ten years, and has coached many lifters and athletes, and many thousands of people interested in improving their strength and performance. He conducts seminars on this method of barbell training around the country.

Paperback: 347 pages
Publisher: The Aasgaard Company; 3rd edition (November 11, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0982522738
ISBN-13: 978-0982522738
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.8 x 11 inches
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Average Customer Review: 1,394 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,379 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #4 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Exercise & Fitness > Weight Training

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Excellent resource that has had an enormous impact on my quality of life.

March 24, 2017

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Excellent resource that has had an enormous impact on my quality of life. Combine this with the free Starting Strength podcast and instructional YouTube vids and you have your self a worthwhile education and practical application class. I put a rack and barbell in my garage and have been applying what I have been learning over the past 6 months.

Bench was 195lbs for 5 reps and is now 245lbs
OHP was 115lbs for 5 and is now 155lbs
DL was 315lbs for 5 and is now 455lbs
BS was 285 for 5 and is now 365lbs
and all still climbing..

Update: My Squat is now 415lbs DL 505lbs

As an added benefit, I am not constantly hurting myself with bad form and having to take time to heal and thus lose gains. Also, I don't hurt when I get up in the morning. All this with previous C-Spine, knee and nerve damage injuries from three combat tours to Iraq.

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Aubrey D. Scott

Best Single Resource for Strength Training with a Barbell

December 12, 2017

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This is a must have if you want to be serious about training with a barbell. I learned a lot going through the book the first time, and I still go back and reference the chapters to constantly brush up on my form and self-coach my lifts. Reading this book helps to shift weightlifting from a somewhat random, word-of-mouth process to something methodical and intellectual. No matter how many other resources you have, this one has to be on your shelf. Buy it immediately.

I have two words of caution for anyone buying this book and getting into lifting for the first time.

1) Please don't treat this book like the Bible. Rippetoe is a fantastic, must-have resource, but it's annoying to talk to someone who thinks everything in this book is completely, absolutely infallible and there's no other way to lift.
2) This book was written to coach you through the barbell portion of your training. He doesn't have much in the book about mobility and injury prevention. This is fine if you are a young, spry high school or college athlete, but most of us aren't. I would suggest getting a copy of Becoming a Supple Leopard or something and staying keenly aware of your form and what your body is telling you about joint health and overall flexibility. When you're first starting out it is easy to gain strength faster than flexibility and mobility, and if you're working out mostly by yourself or with another beginner, you might still manage to hurt yourself. I got pretty far into the squat training and realized I was developing a shoulder problem. I caught it early and was only out for a month, but it could have been worse. I still work really, really hard to keep that joint mobile enough to keep squatting heavy with good form.

Every aspect of barbell training requires complete attention to detail and constant evaluation so improvement can continue. If you follow along with this book you're going to quickly get strong enough that you can do real damage if you aren't careful. So be careful and enjoy getting truly strong.

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Robert Sanek

This is one of my all-time favorite books, and started me on the path of ...

January 16, 2017

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This is one of my all-time favorite books, and started me on the path of strength training through compound lifts. I've even evangelized it to others, including both friends and parents. One of the best quotes of the book, which I still reflect on when demotivated to go to the gym: "A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong."

The reason I give 4 stars, though, is due to the author's way of communicating his belief system; many times in the book, Rippetoe will dismiss alternative exercises or forms of performing an exercise out-of-hand, without providing any reasoning, only harsh words. Such discussion may come off as authoritative to some, but it can feel a bit like promoting intellectual insulation.

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Richard Shaw

Great book for a newbie - like me

March 14, 2015

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I heard Mark Rippetoe talk about Starting Strength on a podcast last fall. For the previous year or so I'd been cycling and running to get back in shape. But, being in my late 50s, it was much harder to do than in years past. When I heard Rippetoe I realized that I needed to gain strength not just work on stamina/cardio. I've never done any kind of weight training before and was cautious to do so because I didn't want to injure myself. Starting Strength is 5 basic lifts with in depth explanations of each lift. That I can do!

I found a Starting Strength coach and started the program. I've been on it for about 5 months (albeit with a very irregular schedule) and have had excellent results. I started with squatting with an 11 lbs. bar and last workout I squatted 210 (3x5) - (see the attached picture). My deadlift started around 65 lbs. and I'm now at 220 (1x5). The other lifts are coming along well too. In real life this translates into a better overall appearance and physical stability. I'm making progress to being much healthier and stronger.

The book is packed with useful information. For a beginner like me it's too much to take in at first. But I read, do the lifts, then read some more and it all begins to sink in. The book describes in detail the correct way to do each lift and progressively increase the weight. Following these techniques (maybe with a coach) it's possible to gain strength without injury.

This is the only weight training book I've read. While there may be other good books I'm glad that Starting Strength was the first one I've read.

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April 14, 2016

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The only bad thing about this book is that it makes you want to go up to people and correct their awful form. Once you learn it, you can't unlearn it.
Mark Rippetoe provides an irrefutable argument that the best exercises we should use in the gym are barbells.
1. The exercises we choose from should use many muscle groups
2. The exercise takes us through the full range of motion
3. The exercise allows us to lift the heaviest weights possible (with good form of course)
As a personal trainer It's a shame that this information is neglected in most standard textbooks of the subject.
If you're going to buy one book to become a stronger version of yourself and not waste time then make it this one. You won't regret it.

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