The Search Jim Steel | June 17, 2024 Lots of stuff has changed over the years and especially from when I was a kid and a teenager in the 1970s and 80s. Some stuff has gotten better, no question. Surgeries and medical stuff have advanced, among other things. But over the years I think that we have lost some of the ability to do things for ourselves, and to have to work hard to learn about something. Continue reading
Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Chris Olson, SSC | June 12, 2024 My first “career gig,” well before becoming a Starting Strength Coach, was coaching competitive youth soccer. In the soccer world, I couldn’t help but marvel at how well parents could often identify the areas in which their children needed improvement (“Josh is really struggling to make accurate passes”), but at the same time so often completely miss the mark on identifying an appropriate solution to the problem... Continue reading
The Mechanics of Barbell Training Mark Rippetoe | June 05, 2024 When you train with a barbell, it becomes immediately apparent that there are both efficient and inefficient ways to move the load through space. The science of Mechanics studies the relationships between forces and physical objects, and barbell training is essentially applied mechanics. Continue reading
The Gifted, and The Rest of Us Jim Steel | May 28, 2024 We all know the type. The type of people that everything comes easy to. Yeah, those people. I am not one of those people. For instance, I was always awful at math when I was growing up. In fact, I had to take math in summer school my senior year just to graduate. I would hang in there for the first few weeks or so of each semester, and then I would get behind in the teaching and there was no catching up. Continue reading
Making It Work in a Commercial Gym Deborah Lebl | May 21, 2024 Millions of people around the world have used the Starting Strength method to train in a wide variety of gyms. They have done their training either in a Starting Strength Gym, in an affiliate gym, in their home, or, for many of us, in a commercial gym. Let’s be honest, Starting Strength stands in diametric opposition to nearly everything about a commercial gym, but this does not mean you cannot be highly successful training in such an environment. Continue reading
