starting strength

mengele

can anyone explain this. is it a book to buy or what.

Hanley

Book. Yes. Buy.

RidleyRider

It's a spreadsheet you can download.

EdenHazard

Terrible. Recommended by everyone with no sense of what goals a person wants. Not for everyone.

Hanley

EdenHazard wrote: »

Terrible. Recommended by everyone with no sense of what goals a person wants. Not for everyone.

The coaching chapters are some of the best in text.

If someone wants good tekkers, it's a great book.

EdenHazard

meh give me a few dumbells, that's all i need, no need for technical mumbo jumbo.

Burkatron

EdenHazard wrote: »

meh give me a few dumbells, that's all i need, no need for technical mumbo jumbo.

Yeah technical cueing is waaaaay overrated, sure so what if the person is doing it wrong & potentially going to break themselves, let's just do this **** :rolleyes:

LuckyLloyd

EdenHazard wrote: »

Terrible. Recommended by everyone with no sense of what goals a person wants. Not for everyone.

It's far from terrible. It probably is over prescribed, but tbh in terms of places to start it's not going to get much better than three days a week of compound lifts that require less than an hour in the gym:

- it provides a good strength base;
- it is simple to follow and requires relatively little investment of time;
- it provides an introduction to basic programming and how having a plan and being consistent can allow you to progress;
- it offers brilliant instruction on lifts that aren't thought or understood by gym instructors and are more efficient uses of time for an untrained individual than machines or isolation exercises;

Whenever it is prescribed it should come with the caveats of course:

- ignore the nutrition advice;
- you can add bicep curls and a little cardio in at the end of each session without issue;
- understand that after five or six months you will stall and need to switch programming;



Now, of course, you're trolling and your next post is planned to be something like 'not everyone wants to lift weights or look like a rugby player'. You might even intend to talk about 28" waists and being 19 and curls for the girls, etc.

Strength benefits everything and transfers across to all other aspects of health and fitness. Doing something like SS (or other fundamental compound lift progressive programs) along with tidying up a diet would be of great benefits to people looking to get back into shape, lose weight, etc just like doing it with a caloric surplus would be great for secondary school kids looking to build a strength base for sports (the intended market of the book).

Anyway, I typed this so you win I guess.

mengele

wheres the cheapest place to buy it online. any special offers with it?

googled eyes

EdenHazard wrote: »

Terrible. Recommended by everyone with no sense of what goals a person wants. Not for everyone.

EdenHazard wrote: »

meh give me a few dumbells, that's all i need, no need for technical mumbo jumbo.

You're taking the piss here ?

It may not be for everyone but there are major benefits to sitting down and reading this book.



Technical mumbo jumbo !?

googled eyes

mengele wrote: »

wheres the cheapest place to buy it online. any special offers with it?

The ebook on Amazon.co.uk for £7

mengele

googled eyes wrote: »

The ebook on Amazon.co.uk for £7

I want a hardcopy

Alf Veedersane

googled eyes wrote: »

You're taking the piss here ?

It may not be for everyone but there are major benefits to sitting down and reading this book.



Technical mumbo jumbo !?

In the words of Limp Bizkit, he's "trollin' trollin' trollin'".

googled eyes

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

In the words of Limp Bizkit, he's "trollin' trollin' trollin'".

My brain told me he's trollin, but the fingers kept typing

DM-BM

mengele wrote: »

I want a hardcopy

http://aasgaardco.com/store/store.php?crn=199&rn=413&action=show_detail

ThunbergsAreGo

I was going stronglifts, before fracturing my elbow and was enjoying it. Stronglifts and SS have a similar 3x compound lift model to follow. The idea of progressing each training sessions was enjoyable to me.