Starting Strength has been called the best and
most useful of fitness books. The second edition, Starting
Strength: Basic Barbell Training, sold
over 80,000 copies in a competitive global market for fitness education. Along
with Practical
Programming for Strength Training 2nd Edition, they form a simple, logical, and practical approach to
strength training. Now, after six more years of testing and adjustment with
thousands of athletes in seminars all over the country, 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 found in SS:BBT3. And while the methods for implementing barbell
training detailed in the book 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. With over 150,000 copies in print in three
editions, 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.
-- All new photographs and improved illustrations of all the lifts, and the biomechanics behind them.
-- 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.
-- Completely indexed.
-- The most productive method in existence for anyone beginning a strength training program.
-- Why barbells are the most effective tools for strength training.
-- The mechanical basis of barbell training, concisely and logically explained.
-- All new photographs and improved illustrations of all the lifts, and the biomechanics behind them.
-- 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.
-- Completely indexed.
-- The most productive method in existence for anyone beginning a strength training program.
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