Excellent Coaching vs. Everything Else Deborah Lebl | March 11, 2025 At some point in your fitness quest, you likely find yourself wondering if you should hire a trainer or a coach. Maybe you are completely new to your endeavor and want someone to guide you. Maybe you’ve been messing around with weights on your own and want to learn more. Maybe you consider yourself experienced but you’ve plateaued and aren’t reaching your goals... Continue reading Starting Strength Seminars: Only for Coaches? Mark Rippetoe | November 25, 2024 I'm concerned that some of you might be under the impression that the Starting Strength Seminar is only for people who want to coach this method. Nothing could be further from the truth, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to explain why YOU need to come to the seminar. Continue reading 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 Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Part 3 Chris Olson, SSC | August 06, 2024 In the last part of this series, we finish discussing why certain popular exercises fail to yield the desired outcomes in athletic performance. We then conclude the discussion about how to most effectively and efficiently train for your sport by outlining how to best organize an effective and efficient strength program. Continue reading Getting Your Lifters to Hit Depth Andrew Lewis, SSC | July 02, 2024 The importance of hitting depth in the squat has been thoroughly covered in Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, articles published on StartingStrength.com, and the many, many form checks on the forums. The mechanics of hitting depth are well understood, but as a coach getting your lifters to hit depth can be a challenge. It's your job to figure out if it's a technical problem or psychological problem. There are many different tactics you can use in the case of a psychological problem, and you'll have to discern which method is most appropriate. Continue reading First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
Starting Strength Seminars: Only for Coaches? Mark Rippetoe | November 25, 2024 I'm concerned that some of you might be under the impression that the Starting Strength Seminar is only for people who want to coach this method. Nothing could be further from the truth, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to explain why YOU need to come to the seminar. Continue reading 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 Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Part 3 Chris Olson, SSC | August 06, 2024 In the last part of this series, we finish discussing why certain popular exercises fail to yield the desired outcomes in athletic performance. We then conclude the discussion about how to most effectively and efficiently train for your sport by outlining how to best organize an effective and efficient strength program. Continue reading Getting Your Lifters to Hit Depth Andrew Lewis, SSC | July 02, 2024 The importance of hitting depth in the squat has been thoroughly covered in Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, articles published on StartingStrength.com, and the many, many form checks on the forums. The mechanics of hitting depth are well understood, but as a coach getting your lifters to hit depth can be a challenge. It's your job to figure out if it's a technical problem or psychological problem. There are many different tactics you can use in the case of a psychological problem, and you'll have to discern which method is most appropriate. Continue reading First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
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 Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Part 3 Chris Olson, SSC | August 06, 2024 In the last part of this series, we finish discussing why certain popular exercises fail to yield the desired outcomes in athletic performance. We then conclude the discussion about how to most effectively and efficiently train for your sport by outlining how to best organize an effective and efficient strength program. Continue reading Getting Your Lifters to Hit Depth Andrew Lewis, SSC | July 02, 2024 The importance of hitting depth in the squat has been thoroughly covered in Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, articles published on StartingStrength.com, and the many, many form checks on the forums. The mechanics of hitting depth are well understood, but as a coach getting your lifters to hit depth can be a challenge. It's your job to figure out if it's a technical problem or psychological problem. There are many different tactics you can use in the case of a psychological problem, and you'll have to discern which method is most appropriate. Continue reading First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Part 3 Chris Olson, SSC | August 06, 2024 In the last part of this series, we finish discussing why certain popular exercises fail to yield the desired outcomes in athletic performance. We then conclude the discussion about how to most effectively and efficiently train for your sport by outlining how to best organize an effective and efficient strength program. Continue reading Getting Your Lifters to Hit Depth Andrew Lewis, SSC | July 02, 2024 The importance of hitting depth in the squat has been thoroughly covered in Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, articles published on StartingStrength.com, and the many, many form checks on the forums. The mechanics of hitting depth are well understood, but as a coach getting your lifters to hit depth can be a challenge. It's your job to figure out if it's a technical problem or psychological problem. There are many different tactics you can use in the case of a psychological problem, and you'll have to discern which method is most appropriate. Continue reading First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
Getting Your Lifters to Hit Depth Andrew Lewis, SSC | July 02, 2024 The importance of hitting depth in the squat has been thoroughly covered in Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, articles published on StartingStrength.com, and the many, many form checks on the forums. The mechanics of hitting depth are well understood, but as a coach getting your lifters to hit depth can be a challenge. It's your job to figure out if it's a technical problem or psychological problem. There are many different tactics you can use in the case of a psychological problem, and you'll have to discern which method is most appropriate. Continue reading
