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 Your Plan for Election Day Mark Rippetoe | November 04, 2024 Election Day is tomorrow. It's going to be chaos. This is the most contentious and emotionally charged election in modern US history. No one knows what's going to happen, except that mental illness will rise across the country, maybe for good reason. 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 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 First Page Next Page Last Page
Your Plan for Election Day Mark Rippetoe | November 04, 2024 Election Day is tomorrow. It's going to be chaos. This is the most contentious and emotionally charged election in modern US history. No one knows what's going to happen, except that mental illness will rise across the country, maybe for good reason. 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 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 First 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 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 First Page Next Page Last Page
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 First Page Next Page Last Page
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
