Regrets as a Novice Lifter Deborah Lebl | September 30, 2024 Consider me your peer. I will not speak to you as an authority on strength training, but simply as someone who gets it. “It” being your experience as a novice lifter. This is not a customer testimonial. I will not talk about how I got great results from Starting Strength. What I will do, however, is validate for you what Starting Strength claims to be true – that it is the single best method for novice lifters to get strong. Continue reading
Mongo and Randy Jim Steel | September 26, 2024 “I'm tired of being weak and looking like shit," Mongo said to Randy as they sat on the outside serving deck of the Bearded Clam Bar and Grill in Bayville, Maryland, having lunch and a few beers... Continue reading
A First-Principles Approach to Hypertrophy Yago Ferreiros, PhD | September 17, 2024 Hypertrophy is a hot topic nowadays. The fitness industry seems to generally distinguish “hypertrophy” training from strength training, and there are receipts everywhere on how to specialize your training for one or the other. There is a fair amount of peer-reviewed research on the topic, and most theories and claims are based on the findings of these works. However, there seems to be an alarming lack of deductive reasoning: conclusions have to follow logically from premises. Continue reading
Safety in a Barbell Training Gym Mark Rippetoe | September 09, 2024 A long time ago, barbells were thought to be dangerous. This was a common belief among doctors, your grandparents, gym teachers, real estate salesmen, guys who maintained swimming pools, the manager at the YMCA, and other people who did not train with barbells. Continue reading
Paradigm Change Zachary Millunchick | August 27, 2024 You’re too skinny. You’re “glommy” fat – to use Rip’s colorful term. You feel weak. You couldn’t lift your own furniture so you had to spend money you don’t have last time you moved. You get out of breath climbing stairs. You know something is wrong... Continue reading
