Articles | strength & health


John F Musser, SSC | August 11, 2021

Boy, I know who you are, and I know who sent you. I got what you're looking for. Please, take your time.

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stef bradford, PhD, SSC | July 21, 2021

Starting Strength accepts articles and videos on strength training and related topics from coaches and lifters. Every week we get a few legitimate submissions for consideration amid a flood of proposals from marketers, scammers, and purveyors of shallow nonsense pieces of the sort repeated endlessly on the internet and in monthly magazines. To improve the ratio, we've clarified and expanded the submission guidelines.

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Carl Raghavan, SSC | July 14, 2021

Training hard is one thing, but recovery is everything! If you’re struggling to make linear progress on Starting Strength, you are most likely under-recovered – not over-trained. How can I be so certain? So dogmatic? Because I’ve been there.

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Harilaos Fafutis, SSC | June 30, 2021

There are only a few things in life that a person needs to learn and do, having drunk from the fountain of wisdom and thus trying to live a good life – a life worth living. These things probably end up revolving around health, wealth, relationships, and spirituality. Good practices within these “4 pillars” can get us closer to living life to its fullest potential, but there’s a lot of ambiguity as to what exactly is required in these areas. However, this challenge can be understood better by turning the problem on its head to look for things one should avoid.

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