Starting Strength Summary
This publisher’s blurb comes from the Asgard Company’s 2013 3rd edition of Starting Strength,
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.
- Starting Strength Contents
- Starting Strength contains 8 main chapters…
- Chapter 1 – Strength: Why and How
Why Barbells?
- Chapter 2 – The Squat
- Loaded Human Movement
- Squat Depth — Safety and Importance
- Learning to Squat
- Leverage and Moment — The Basis of Barbell Training
- Common Problems Everyone Should Know How to Solve
- The Master Cue
- Breathing
- Spotting the Squat
- Personal Equipment
- Coaching Cues
- Chapter 3 – The Press
- Learning to Press
- Faults and Corrections
- Chapter 4 — The Deadlift
- Learning to Deadlift
- Back Position
- Pulling Mechanics
- The Little Details
- Chapter 5 — The Bench Press
- Learning to Bench Press
- Common Problems Everyone Should Know How to Solve
- Breathing
- Racking Errors
- Spotters
- Chapter 6 – The Power Clean
- The Neuromuscular System
- Power, Force Production, and Velocity
- Learning the Power Clean
- Correcting Problems
- The Power Snatch
- Chapter 7 – Useful Assistance Exercises
- Partial Movements
- Squat Variations
- Bench Press Variations
- Deadlift Variations
- Press Variations
- Ancillary Exercises
- Barbell Training: There’s Just No Substitute
- Chapter 8 – Programming
- Learning the Lifts
- Nutrition and Body weight
- Equipment
- Soreness and Injuries
- Barbell Training for Kids
- Best Starting Strength Quotes
- These Starting Strength quotes come from The Art of Living's ever-growing central library of thoughts, anecdotes, notes.
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