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Starting Strength | 
| Author: Mark Rippetoe
Creator: Lon Kilgore
Publisher: The Aasgaard Company
Category: Book
Buy New: $17.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  101 reviews
Sales Rank: 240804
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 248
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 0976805405
EAN: 9780976805403
ASIN: 0976805405
Publication Date: July 2005
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Condition: Unread copies of 3rd printing of FIRST EDITION of Starting Strength (Starting Strength: A Simple and Practical Guide for Coaching Beginners). IMPORTANT SPECIAL NOTE: Please be sure that you are interested in purchasing the FIRST edition. The 2nd of Starting Strength (Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training) is currently available through Amazon and direct from the publisher (The Aasgaard Company).
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Book Description
Starting Strength offers a unique approach to coaching barbell weight training and is written by experienced coaches and sports scientists who designed it specifically for training beginners. Learn how to effectively and safely coach the basic core lifts and their programming in an easy to do, step-by-step process. Featuring the most heavily illustrated exercise chapters in print, Starting Strength shows the reader not only how to teach the lifts, but how to recognize and correct the technique errors common to all novice lifters. The book includes sequential animations of each exercise performed correctly, along with practical interpretations of coaching theory, and the anatomical, physiological, and mechanical principles of training. It will help prepare coaches and personal trainers to be more effective strength and conditioning professionals.
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Starting Strength July 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mark Rippetoe's "Starting Strength" is, without question, one of the finest books of its kind. I have been going to gyms all my life, listening to people and reading many books on all aspects of weight training. Mr. Rippetoe, via his book, is the best teacher I have encountered. Whether you're a novice or an experienced lifter, "Starting Strength" will improve your performance and your outlook in the gym. It is a complete reference for the technique, and the purpose, of all the important barbell movements. It is well written, clear, and thorough. Highly recommended.
Excellent book July 23, 2008
Probably one of the best sports related books I have ever read. Highly recommended for anyone wanting to build strength.
Simply Brilliant July 16, 2008
Hi
I teach Crossfit [...] and this book is quite simply Brilliant. It is also a great companion for crossfitters to help with technique. If you want to really learn the lifts, if you want to get stronger this is the place to go. Be warned this is not a hone and tone body building book but a great work dedicated to compound lifts and the development of strength.
Just buy it !
The best book on weight training I've read. July 15, 2008
This is the best book on weight training I've read, and I've read a lot of them.
I wish I had had it 15 years ago. If you know a young person getting into strength training, buy them this book.
Also get Practical Programming for Strength Training, by the same authors. Consider getting Science and Practice of Strength Training by Zatsiorsky and Kraemer if you want the footnotes. Though frankly, all these books could use better footnotes.
One tiny quibble is that the book is strongly focused on strength training, as it says in the title. This isn't the same thing as fitness or aesthetics, which are probably more common motivators for weight training. As far as I know there are no really good books on weight training for non-strength goals. Yes, I've read Stuart McRobert.
Excellent July 11, 2008
Coach Rip applies a perfect amount of dry whit to his rock solid understanding of weight training and delivers a tutorial that is as readable as it is helpful. Starting Strength gives an insight to both form and function of barbell training that your everyday coach/trainer does not have and cannot provide.
Highly recommended for anyone that wants to improve their strength, and especially recommended for anyone that is in the position to be instructing others in weight training.
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