Applications of Starting Strength and Practical Programming to Powerlifting Competition: Abigail Smashes the Glass Ceiling

by Geoff Bischoff

Starting Strength is not a powerlifting program. I’ve been told so in person by Mark Rippetoe, and if he doesn’t know what his model exists for, then I can’t imagine who does. But I’d been using the model in my own training for that specific purpose for some time, and it worked pretty okay, so I figured … Why the hell not?

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