STARTING STRENGTH REVIEW *6 MONTH Mark Rippetoe strength training powerlifter Basic Barbell Training

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Note: I've never had a gym membership I started the program mid December 2012, the pics from earlier in the year of 2012 are of me cutting. This is the first strength training program I've ever tried. This is all opinion, this is in no way professional advice only my thoughts.
Conclusion, I've definitely seen a lot of gains and have fell in love with the program (the lifts/routine) as a whole (menus the diet, and recommended weight to put on your lift per day). Great program, I'd recommend it to anyone.
I started the program squatting only 95lbs, I can now squat 175lbs with proper form and reps 3x5 and plan to be able to squat my body weight by my birthday which is mid June.
If you have questions about diet, and supplements, leave it in the comment section.

Starting Strength has been called the best and most useful of fitness books. The second edition, Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, sold over 80,000 copies in a competitive global market for fitness education. Along with Practical Programming for Strength Training 2nd Edition, they form a simple, logical, and practical approach to strength training. Now, after six more years of testing and adjustment with thousands of athletes in seminars all over the country, the updated third edition expands and improves on the previous teaching methods and bio-mechanical analysis. No other book on barbell training ever written provides the detailed instruction on every aspect of the basic barbell exercises found in SS:BBT3. And while the methods for implementing barbell training detailed in the book are primarily aimed at young athletes, they have been successfully applied to everyone: young and old, male and female, fit and flabby, sick and healthy, weak and already strong. Many people all over the world have used the simple biological principle of stress/recovery/adaptation on which this method is based to improve their performance, their appearance, and their long-term health. With over 150,000 copies in print in three editions, Starting Strength is the most important method available to learn the most effective way to train with barbells -- the most important way to improve your strength, your health, and your life.

Mark Rippetoe is the author of Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, Practical Programming for Strength Training 2nd edition, Strong Enough?, Mean Ol' Mr. Gravity, and numerous journal, magazine and internet articles. He has worked in the fitness industry since 1978, and has been the owner of the Wichita Falls Athletic Club since 1984. He graduated from Midwestern State University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science in geology and a minor in anthropology. He was in the first group certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a CSCS in 1985, and the first to formally relinquish that credential in 2009. Rip was a competitive powerlifter for ten years, and has coached many lifters and athletes, and many thousands of people interested in improving their strength and performance. He conducts seminars on this method of barbell training around the country.

Biography
Mark Rippetoe is the author of Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, Practical Programming for Strength Training 2nd edition, Strong Enough?, Mean Ol' Mr. Gravity, and numerous journal, magazine and internet articles. He has worked in the fitness industry since 1978, and has been the owner of the Wichita Falls Athletic Club since 1984. He graduated from Midwestern State University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science in geology and a minor in anthropology. He was in the first group certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a CSCS in 1985, and the first to formally relinquish that credential in 2009. Rip was a competitive powerlifter for ten years. He won the 198-pound weight class at the Greater Texas Classic in 1982, and placed in state- and regional-level meets for the next 6 years, retiring from competition in 1988. For the next 10 years Rip announced most of the powerlifting meets in North Texas, including the 1995 APF Nationals in Dallas. He retired from powerlifting altogether in 1997, to focus more on Olympic weightlifting.

[strengthadvocate]

This program is actually one of the most legit programs for beginners, and by beginners I mean those people with beginner strength and not just people who haven't worked out before. A lot of people could be working out with weights for years, but their numbers for their big lifts could still be at a low level. This program is designed for all beginners to reach intermediate strength so that the athlete can then specialize based on the sport he/she wants to pursue. The progression can be 2.5 pounds per workout and when it gets really heavy or you could progress 2.5 pounds per week if needed. A deload can be made as well. It's flexible because the format is so simple that you can make your own tweaks to the main structure so that it can work for you. For example, I'm on this program and I don't take part in the diet because a gallon of milk a day is unreasonable. But just because I'm not fond of the diet aspect, doesn't mean the entire program is a bust. I've gained a great deal of strength on all my lifts, especially squats and deadlifts. I also added assistance exercises to develop my triceps and biceps as well as my rotator cuffs so that I could maintain muscular balance. In all honesty, both SS and SL are great programs and I actually started with SL, but I found that maintaining a 5x5 gets very hard and taxing on the body when you get to heavier weights so I switched to SS and found that it better suited me. All of this info was found in the book that Mark Rippetoe wrote, and I give this man a ton of credit because he knows what he's talking about.

[patrikaxelsson]

I am 15 and before i started "startning strength" i squated about 60 pounds. A couple of month later i squated 185 pounds 5 times.... man tis program is the best!!!!

[Redson_]

YDNDTP. And your con list proves you didn't even read the book.

[clownpocket]

GOMAD is for the underweight only.
Also not for lactose intolerant.

[norrislover]

SS is not a diet book. GOMAD is for hard-gainer twig people not fat fucks or people trying to get lean. Your criticisms have more to do with your own misinterpretations of the material than with the material itself. 

[synesthetically]

I don't know if it was already posted, but the book does say the weight increases decreases over time. In the beginning 5/10 lbs per session, then swiftly decrease to smaller lift gains per session or per week.

[Fulcrum]

You didn't do the program. I added 15lbs a week on squat and deadlift per week for 6 months. Bench and press slowed down to 5lbs a week after the first 3 months. I ate 5000+ calories a day. Most of that was meat, eggs, peanut butter, and whey protein with some milk.
You can't add the weight if you don't eat the protein. I have the book and it doesn't say you have to get your protein via GOMAD.

[saqqy]

I played football after doing starting strength for a while... I definitely dominated everyone, worth doing just for that! 

[jimnoyb]

You did not pay attention, as for the GOMAD that was for skinny guys just starting out that wanted to bulk without all the whey powders,

[CSSFACE]

This is not a review this is straight up slander.

[youlookprettygud]

How about not doing GOMAD when your slightly fat. Plus if you can't add weight then eat more, not milk, better sources of carbs and protein like meats and rice. Plus you can do bicep curls if you feel like your arms are small, assistance exercise are said to be allowed in the book as long as it doesn't stall your progress from recovery problems.

[poppe]

Rippetoe trolled the fitness community hard. I mean come on: a gallon of milk a day + squats = shitting yourself while squatting!

[kikzrandrade]

So basically you read a summary of the book, used a few sentences about nutrition without the context and then did not follow the program’s prescribed progression.
How can you review that which you did not do?

[saqibawan]

100% legit review dude .
Can't agree more with whatever you said.

[redrose]

good review, i could not decide whether to do, starting strength or 5x5
but after watching this, starting strength looks fucking stupid and will make me a big fat fucker. 5x5 looks better.Thanks!

[RobertGriffith]

You need to actually have big legs to be "t-rex" mode, dude.
It does actually tell you to add extra upper body work, in the form of chin/pull ups and curls.

[alexandermcveigh]

Novices can add much more weight to the bar than advanced lifters that's a well known fact

[michaelcarter]

Progression is progression. As long as weight is being added to the bar, he's doing something right.

[EazyDuz]

you gained zero size in a year, all you did was lose a bit of fat and got stronger. If thats your goal fair enough

[MrAdlwg]

6 month and squat only goes from 95 to 175?