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Starting Strength
- Basic Barbell Training, 3rd Edition
- Narrated by: Mark Rippetoe
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
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Summary
Starting Strength has been called the best and most useful of fitness books. It has sold over a half-million copies in a competitive global market for fitness education. 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.
And while the methods for implementing barbell training detailed in the audiobook 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. 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.
- 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.
- The most productive method in existence for anyone beginning a strength training program.
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- Sblig
- 30-07-19
Just fantastic
Excellent book. This is perhaps the very best information for the new, intermediate and advanced strength training athlete.
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- Jack Rudgley
- 24-03-21
Excellent information
Really interesting and informative. Hard to review it on 'story' as its a reference book. Absolutely worth a listen if you use weights in any of your training.
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- Mr. Alan Devane
- 09-05-20
As a fitness professional... Its a must
Loved this book from Mark Ripptoe.. Every important barbell exercise broken down into minute detail.. 5 stars all the way
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- matt stewart
- 21-09-23
Great book, hard to follow
I love this book, it is so full of great information. However, my one criticism is that i like to read along to the actual paper copy. Mark goes wildly off script so many times it makes this book impossible to read along to. Sometimes he adds in paragraphs, sometimes he skips half a paragraph all together. Im not sure what has happened between the writing of this book and the recording of this audiobook but something has gone awry.
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- MR S.
- 14-06-23
The best place to start.
If you’re a beginner this the book you should get. It stands above all other programs in detail, availability and quality.
Let Mark put you on the right path from the start!
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- Dale Braithwaite
- 14-05-20
Clear and concise information
It misses the pictures, but the ideas are so clearly explained by rip, you don't actually need them.
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- Mr B
- 24-11-20
Must buy
Brilliant listen, everything is so well explained you don't need the book...learn something new every listen
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- riccardo
- 29-01-20
An eye opener
Having been in the fitness profession for over 20 years as a PT and strength and conditioning coach, hearing the rational for various training modalities the information in this book comes over as the most rational sound. I just wish I'd read it 20 years ago.
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- boho mark
- 05-01-20
Must read for strength athletes
Any strength athletes, or athlete who requires strength of any kind, is missing a lot, if they have not read this book. All the fundamentals covered in detail in an easy to understand format. Brilliant! Five stars
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