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Epicurus.com - Starting Strength (2nd edition)
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List Price: $29.95
Our Price: $29.95
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: The Aasgaard Company
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780976805427
ISBN: 0976805421
Label: The Aasgaard Company
Manufacturer: The Aasgaard Company
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2007-10-21
Publisher: The Aasgaard Company
Studio: The Aasgaard Company
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Editorial Reviews:
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Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training is the new expanded version of the book that has been called "the best and most useful of fitness books." It picks up where Starting Strength: A Simple and Practical Guide for Coaching Beginners leaves off. With all new graphics and more than 750 illustrations, a more detailed analysis of the five most important exercises in the weight room, and a new chapter dealing with the most important assistance exercises, Basic Barbell Training offers the most complete examination in print of the most effective way to exercise.
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Summary: Starting Strength
Comment: Mark Rippetoe's "Starting Strength" is, without question, one of the finest books of its kind. I have been going to gyms all my life, listening to people and reading many books on all aspects of weight training. Mr. Rippetoe, via his book, is the best teacher I have encountered. Whether you're a novice or an experienced lifter, "Starting Strength" will improve your performance and your outlook in the gym. It is a complete reference for the technique, and the purpose, of all the important barbell movements. It is well written, clear, and thorough. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Excellent book
Comment: Probably one of the best sports related books I have ever read. Highly recommended for anyone wanting to build strength.
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Summary: Simply Brilliant
Comment: Hi
I teach Crossfit [...] and this book is quite simply Brilliant. It is also a great companion for crossfitters to help with technique. If you want to really learn the lifts, if you want to get stronger this is the place to go. Be warned this is not a hone and tone body building book but a great work dedicated to compound lifts and the development of strength.
Just buy it !
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Summary: The best book on weight training I've read.
Comment: This is the best book on weight training I've read, and I've read a lot of them.
I wish I had had it 15 years ago. If you know a young person getting into strength training, buy them this book.
Also get Practical Programming for Strength Training, by the same authors. Consider getting Science and Practice of Strength Training by Zatsiorsky and Kraemer if you want the footnotes. Though frankly, all these books could use better footnotes.
One tiny quibble is that the book is strongly focused on strength training, as it says in the title. This isn't the same thing as fitness or aesthetics, which are probably more common motivators for weight training. As far as I know there are no really good books on weight training for non-strength goals. Yes, I've read Stuart McRobert.
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Summary: Excellent
Comment: Coach Rip applies a perfect amount of dry whit to his rock solid understanding of weight training and delivers a tutorial that is as readable as it is helpful. Starting Strength gives an insight to both form and function of barbell training that your everyday coach/trainer does not have and cannot provide.
Highly recommended for anyone that wants to improve their strength, and especially recommended for anyone that is in the position to be instructing others in weight training.
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