Starting Strength - Mark Rippetoe

Category: Sport & Recreation, Tutorial
Language: English
Keywords: Fitness Weightlifting

Written by Mark Rippetoe
Read by Mark Rippetoe
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 16h23m
Release Date: July 9 2019

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.