Originally Posted by
msingh
I've said it before and i'll say it again, the books are alright for explaining certain things about the logic of why you should squat/bench/press/pc a certain way, but that information is not directly useful or necessary for the purposes of learning and executing those lifts.
The most valuable pedagogical aspects of the books are the cues you can walk away with and keep in your mind as you're about to do a lift, the cues you try to follow during the lift. The entirety of these cues and hints, tips and warnings do not need hundreds of pages. The photographs and illustrated diagrams are often invaluable.
The remaining material is useful only for impressing Gary Gibson when you talk about distal and proximal and the rest of the anatomical mumbo jumbo entirely unconcerned with the actual act of lifting heavy things. But then i'm a bit of an idiot so I might have a change of heart in a few years.