Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition 3rd Edition

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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.

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Publisher : The Aasgaard Company; 3rd edition (November 11, 2011)
Language : English
Paperback : 347 pages
ISBN-10 : 0982522738
ISBN-13 : 978-0982522738
Item Weight : 2.2 pounds
Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.75 x 10.98 inches

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

Reviewed in the United States on 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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A GREAT system for getting strong the right way

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2018

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I heard about SS on the Art of Manliness podcast and was intrigued, as it coincides with my general philosophy around weight lifting - big, multi-joint movements that use the most muscle are the most efficient way to get strong and big. I had kicked it around but never really pursued it until a friend recommended it to me strongly. I would absolutely give the program 5 stars all the way, even if the adherents are little cultish :)

I give the book 4 stars because, overall, it's an excellent introduction to the method, system, program, philosophy, etc. of Starting Strength. Rippetoe's ("Rip" to the disciples) style is very strong and opinionated, which I like but I think needs to be taken with a grain of salt. That said, the diagrams (even in the Kindle edition) and explanations of the movements are really top notch and do a great job of helping you visualize the movements and do them right. I only deduct a star because some of the descriptions get a little long-winded. It can take a lot of patience to get through pages and pages of why low-bar is better than high-bar or front squat, e.g., with detailed anatomical descriptions, diagrams, physics lessons, etc.

The official Starting Strength app is a great complement to this book, and a really useful tool once you start training. It also contains a very consolidate set of excerpts and diagrams from the book that might be enough to get some people started on the system without reading the whole book. That said, I think it's still worth buying and reading the book for additional information and the context (even if some of it is a little drawn out).

I would recommend that anyone considering starting this on their own either consider finding a local SS coach (if you can afford it!) or SS-knowledgable friend to help get started, but with or without that I would recommend checking out the Starting Strength Youtube channel (DVD excerpt playlists for each move in particular) as well as the Art of Manliness videos where Rip coaches Brett on the moves.

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RandyS

great if you want to be big, strong, fat and injured

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2020

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His instructions on how to perform the exercises is actually pretty good, albeit very long winded and repetitive. I also liked his straightforward, at times blunt and funny, style of writing. But there are many failings:
1. Doesn't mention the drawbacks of barbell training.
2. His diet advice: don't follow it, you fool. Unless you want to be obese and increase your chance of health issues.
3. His love of the valsalva maneuver is unwarranted and misleading. Countless lifters and trainees have been injured, some very badly, from passing out or becoming dizzy from it.
4. He openly states injuries are inevitable. What? That invalidates his program altogether. A properly designed training program will not injure you. And guess what, if you are hurt you aren't strong, you're vulnerable until you heal and then regain your strength.
5. Eight sets per exercise including warmups? Seriously? Up to 5 minutes rest between sets? For what, a nap?
6. Heavy squatting 3 times a week? Sure, if you are on steroids and have excellent genetics. If not say hello to gross overtraining.
7. He states you can't gain muscular bodyweight doing HIT circuits. This statement is patently false.
So if you want to become big, fat, strong, hurt, and unhealthy this is the book for you. But if you want to be strong enough, healthy, fit, and uninjured avoid this book like the plague.

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Robert Sanek

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

Reviewed in the United States on 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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RedRushFan

How getting strong really happens, in detail.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 30, 2019

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This book is the best selling of its kind because it is chock full of the fundamentals of the stress, recovery and adaptation cycle that anyone can use to get strong. Although the Starting Strength Novice Linear Progression program is aimed at those new to strength training with a barbell, the detailed information regarding the main lifts and the case for lifting as a means to getting more from life for longer makes the book essential reading for trainees of any age, sex or current ability. Alongside the Starting Strength website, this book can make a real difference to your life in a very tangible way. Not a novice lifter? You should still get it for the lifting instruction and anatomical knowledge and move on to the equally excellent "Practical Programming for Strength Training" that the author produced with Andy Baker. Between these two books you could glean all the information required to create and maintain the best physical version of your self - and for the rest of your life. Valuable knowledge indeed.

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It goes into great detail and is highly credible (there is no bro-science ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 18, 2018

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It goes into great detail and is highly credible (there is no bro-science in this book whatsoever, every detail is gone through in detail using real science), but it's a bit overwhelming. It would really benefit from a couple of page 'cheat-sheet' at the end just summarising the key points for each exercise.

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steve

Fantastic detail, without getting bogged down in "baggage-knowledge"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 16, 2018

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Fantastic detail, without getting bogged down in "baggage-knowledge". The main lifts are so well explained in this book, and the waypoints so clear and lucid, that it genuinely affects what I'm doing under the bar.

I'm so glad I bought this book.

Downside is, I learnt that I can't squat 150kg, not properly. The upside is that I'm sure I will be able to, in due course. I dropped weight off the bar, and my technique, and awareness of my positioning, is now so crisp.

Can't recommend this book enough.

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Fantastic book, but i would recommend sourcing the real ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 6, 2016

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DO NOT BUY KINDLE VERSION. Fantastic book, but i would recommend sourcing the real book. The real book is fantastic with big pictures and diagrams and big clear pages. the kindle version is hard to follow as the diagrams are small and cant be zoomed and often many pages away from the text concerning them.
Its expensive, but id recommend finding the real book. I think i paid around £35 from a strength training website in the uk

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Toby

Buy it, read it, work it out

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 10, 2017

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If you're into strength training or anything that requires you to be strong, get this book. Rippetoe is genius and this will unlock a world of potential for you. You owe yourself buying this one. Seriously. Get this edition (the 3rd), it's not worth getting older editions unless you're a collector of Rippetoe memorabilia.

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