Starting Strength: The Ultimate Guide To Functional Strength

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.

I've been lifting weights half - assedly for years, using bits and pieces of techniques I've picked up watching other people and vague memories of classes in high school and college. Suffice to say, Starting Strength is a huge eye opener. I ripped open the package as soon as it got delivered and spent about 6 hours just devouring it like I would a good thriller. It feels like it's granted me an epiphany, and I'm sitting here wondering how / why I wasted so much time over the years doing isolation exercises on stupid machines, and kept telling myself that I was physically incapable of doing a squat. I highly recommend this book