Starting Strength: The Ultimate Guide To Functional Strength

As an engineer, I like knowing how something works before trying it. So when I wanted to get "fit" I embarked on a internet-wide search for the best resources online. This book was overwhelmingly recommended by many people through many different and diverse internet forums. With such endorsements I HAD to buy it. Now, if you heed the people in any gym, they will tell you that learning to lift weights with a book is useless and you shouldn't do it. Well you MUST buy and read this book.

Great organization and book. Rippetoe and his coaches are teaching the most valuable exercise extant for most people, of any age. Strength is the biggest determinant of the quality of one's physical life. Although I have been weight training for 46 years, I had avoided full squats and deadlifts for decades due to an old back injury. Now I have returned to these fundamental lifts, seem to be tolerating them fine, so far, and I'm reminded they are the superior of all exercise movements.

Great organization and book. Rippetoe and his coaches are teaching the most valuable exercise extant for most people, of any age. Strength is the biggest determinant of the quality of one's physical life. Although I have been weight training for 46 years, I had avoided full squats and deadlifts for decades due to an old back injury. Now I have returned to these fundamental lifts, seem to be tolerating them fine, so far, and I'm reminded they are the superior of all exercise movements.