Starting Strength is an amazing book

[AlwaysOn]

Have you guys heard of this book called "Starting Strength"?

Holy crap, its a fucking awesome book.

It went WAY WAY WAY beyond my expectations.

 

[BiggT]

I've heard nothing but great things about it. And you have to love Ripptoe's way with words, lol. I plan on ordering it myself. If anyone is interested the website is www.startingstrength.com

 

[Jim Ouini]

Yeah it's awesome. I need to pick it up again...here's my initial review.

http://elitefitness.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5065392&postcount=1

BW, G5.0 and AB have it too I think. All have Madcow disease.

 

[anotherbutters]

Yeah, excellent book.

I love his little quotes, like this one on gloves: "A desire to prevent callus formation (possibly so as to not snag one's pantyhose) does not constitute a legitimate use."

Damn, I thought we'd eradicated madcow disease from this country.

 

[bignate73]

hehe....snag pantyhose....so true.

 

[blut wump]

Yeah, excellent book.

I love his little quotes, like this one on gloves: "A desire to prevent callus formation (possibly so as to not snag one's pantyhose) does not constitute a legitimate use."

Damn, I thought we'd eradicated madcow disease from this country.

You're kidding yourself. They just learned at what age the symptoms start to show and make sure they kill them before that age.

You can pretty much guarantee that you'll learn somewhere between a little and a lot from the book. You won't come away with nothing.

It goes into a detailed description of the techniques and biomechanics of Squat, Bench Press, Deadlift, OH Press, Power Clean and then a section on programming which is meat and potatoes for those of us with mc disease but bordering on heresy for anyone else.

 

[BiggT]

I like that ...'snag one's pantyhose'. I am gonna use that quote the next time a gay glove thread comes up on here. LOL.

 

[Kane Fan]

I may pick the book up
you guys m ake it sound good

 

[AlwaysOn]

lol, i didn't know you guys already knew of this book when I started this thread!

 

[Megalomaniac]

good thread, I'll check it out. Are there any other books down this line that one might recommend?

 

[AlwaysOn]

There aren't many good books sadly

 

[Kane Fan]

Power to the People is pretty good
it's a little small for the price but it's still good information

 

[Guinness5.0]

There aren't many good books sadly

so true. I spent a couple hours browsing at Borders and saw maybe one or two that weren't garbage. A lot of them are Flex magazine w/out ads.

Oh and I heartily endorse starting strength. I found the squat and powerclean chapters particularly helpful