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Dr Ken Leistner | June 03, 2015

"Why not eat relatively simply and train one’s balls off on the big, basic, multi-joint exercises that have worked for “almost everyone” who gave them a legitimate, hard training shot since the 1950s?"

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Marty Gallagher | May 13, 2015

"Starr pondered progress.  How best do we stimulate physical progress when none exists? How do we create momentum out of inertia? What can the experienced athlete do when stagnation sets in?  He thought long and hard about how to get better, how to improve..."

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Dr Ken Leistner | April 22, 2015

"Our excitement in finally arriving in California was in part due to the expectation that we would discover as yet unknown secrets, secrets that would allow some sort of miraculous and rapid increase in muscular size and strength. Within us, there was also a hope, if not an expectation, that all of the sets, reps, and dietary manipulation we had developed were in fact, correct, and that we had not wasted a lot of precious training time..."

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Dr Ken Leistner | April 08, 2015

Every other obituary about Bill Starr will begin with “He was born on…he was educated at…he served in the military from___ to ___, he worked at____, he passed away on ___ .” In the case of Bill Starr, none of this information tells us much, and certainly could never tell enough about him.

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