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Bill Been | July 26, 2017

As you travel around the online fitness world, or even if you collect more serious discussions in actual published books, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that there's a very strong tendency to complicate things. Numbers of exercises, set and rep schemes, Rate of Perceived Exertion, periodization schemes, therapy babble, "performance gyms" (so Elite!) muddled definitions, the list goes on. It doesn't require a habitually cynical nature to suspect there's a good bit of Bovine Feces being shoveled here.

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Mark Rippetoe | July 16, 2017

Hoy en día, el entrenamiento para fuerza es bastante popular, y cada vez se vuelve más porque la gente se da cuenta de los beneficios que conlleva enfocar su programa de ejercicio con un objetivo definitivo en mente. Más fuerte es más útil. Más fuerte es mejor. Más fuerte incluso se ve mejor. Y más fuerte es un proceso sencillo – levanta un poco más peso del que usaste la última vez y sigue haciéndolo así por el mayor tiempo posible.

[Spanish translation of Squats, Presses, and Deadlifts: Why Gyms Don't Teach the Only Exercises You Need]

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Mark Rippetoe | July 14, 2017

Barbell training is the best way to train for strength. Bar none. Nothing else even comes close to the effectiveness of barbell squats, presses, deadlifts, and the Olympic lifts for the development of strength, power, and muscular size...You should be using them.

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