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  • Basic Barbell Training, 3rd Edition
  • Written by: Mark Rippetoe
  • Narrated by: Mark Rippetoe
  • Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (21 ratings)

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Starting Strength

Written by: Mark Rippetoe
Narrated by: Mark Rippetoe
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Publisher's Summary

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.
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  • 2023-11-13

Starting Strength (3rd Edition)

Mark Rippetoe is an absolute legend. Deep dive into form and body mechanics and easily approachable for novices to learn the basics of fundamental barbell lifts.
Highly recommend to anyone interested in fitness and general strength training. Added bonus: it's narrated by Rip himself

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