Starting Strength (2nd edition) by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Starting Strength (2nd edition)
Book Review: simple ideas, huge impact
Summary: 5 Stars
I am 29 years old have been training for many years now, picking up injuries due to my own stupidity and ignorance, lack of interest in hard work and the over-zealousness of my trainer. This book has changed my entire outlook towards weight training and fitness. Compound exercises are the way to go for the typical weight trainer like me and thats where this book is so valuable.
I recommend this book for the following reasons -
1. The content is straight forward, very elaborately explained, the layout of the book is very clean and eye catching.
2. The big 5 exercises explained are the 5 most important exercises in a strength trainers program (or atleast should be).
3. Very good for technique and motivation.
4. The physics is also explained in text and pictures.
5. "Must have" to perfect your form and avoid injury.
6. Very important for weight trainers of all ages, esp more important if you are older since you cannot afford injuries.
Bottom line - Highly recommended. Buy it. Read it. Understand it and PRACTICE IT.
PS - I strongly recommend the DVD for additional clarity.
Book Review: Essential
Summary: 5 Stars
I'll keep this short. I wasted 8 years of gym time bouncing around between different programs and goals I pulled out of muscle magazines. I never understood the following:
1. Which exercises are most important and why.
2. How should you perform them and why.
3. How should you advance and when should you change your program.
I have completely reinvented my training at 27 and have more progress in 4 months on this program than in the last several years.
That, and Mark is hillarious.
Book Review: Buy this before anything else
Summary: 5 Stars
The other reviews have really said all that needs to be said about this book. It's simply brilliant. I've had it for over a year, read it numerous times, and refer to it regularly. If you're thinking about buying any book on strength training, make this your first. It may very well be your last (except for Practical Programming, of course!)Book Review: excellent results with the training aquired in this material.
Summary: 5 Stars
Hats off to Ripp and Lon and the folks who made this book and program available. If you want to learn the proper way to train to avoid injury and make steady upward progress, buy this book. You won't look back. I'm a novice of 4-5 yrs of weight lifting and my progress has always hit a wall at some point. This book has changed that in every way. It's all about programming and proper technique and this book explains in DETAIL and includes some good supplemental info.Book Review: Great, Informative, Somewhate Technical Book
Summary: 5 Stars
I have often worked out in my own time, as an amateur without going to gyms or trainers of the like, teaching myself off of online videos and articles.
I have to say that this has been the single best resource that I recently have been able to pick up on power-lifting/weightlifting. While working individually and staying true to what's written in the text, I found that improving on technique according the Rippetoe's material caused a jump in the amount I was able to lift, as well as disposal of fear that I was doing so incorrectly to avoid self-injury.
This book is a must-have for any serious weightlifter, especially those who do so recreationally and/or individually.