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Starting Strength
- Basic Barbell Training, 3rd Edition
- Narrated by: Mark Rippetoe
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Starting Strength has been called the best and most useful of fitness books. It has sold over a half-million copies in a competitive global market for fitness education. The updated third edition expands and improves on the previous teaching methods and biomechanical analysis. No other book on barbell training ever written provides the detailed instruction on every aspect of the basic barbell exercises.
And while the methods for implementing barbell training detailed in the audiobook 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. 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.
- Why barbells are the most effective tools for strength training.
- The mechanical basis of barbell training, concisely and logically explained.
- Complete, easy-to-follow instructions for performing the basic barbell exercises: the squat, press, deadlift, bench press, power clean, and the power snatch.
- Revised instruction methods for all six lifts, proven effective in four years of seminar, military, and group instruction.
- How the human body adapts to stress through recovery, and why this is the foundation of the development of strength and lifetime health.
- How to program the basic exercises into the most effective program for long-term progress.
- The most productive method in existence for anyone beginning a strength training program.
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- Christopher Kinler
- 11-14-19
Amazing work! Wish chapters were labeled.
Amazing culmination of a lifetime of learning about the process of gaining and teaching strength. Please label the chapters for reference and re- listening; it's the only ding on a perfect product. Glad Rip narrated so you can clearly hear his disdain when he talks about foolishness.
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- Junior
- 01-12-21
Too technical with anatomical structure and position language
I’m a RN and even I got lost in all the proper anatomical names positions and movements. This reads like a dissertation in its specificity and depth of a single concept, like why the barbel is held lower on the back rather than higher for example. Do yourself a favor and find a book with more casual language if you’re looking for help on what to do, unless you’re needing to hear how the tibial tuberosity and the anterior posterior chain is integrated via the posterior ankle known as the Achilles’ tendon along the distal to proximal pathway of the posterior chain. Don’t believe me get through chapter 2.
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- Joshua Johnson
- 09-02-19
Great information
Mark is a very intelligent and experienced lifter.
I gave 4-star for overall because this audiobook REALLY needs a pdf for some visual understanding of the positions and postures. The explanations are thorugh but people really do need to see some visual representation to fully grasp it. I found myself referencing Mark on YouTube almost daily while going through the book.
In either case, I would highly recommend it.
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- Timothy Sy
- 07-29-19
Worth the wait
Always great hearing rippetoe on audio. Love his podcast and been waiting for the release of the audio book version of starting strength. Audible should get rippetoe to provide audio for more books.
5 people found this helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 07-13-19
The BEST!
The best Strength Text Book of all times! Excellent content, clear narration. Nothing less from Rip!
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- Johnathon O'Day
- 08-06-19
Information OVERLOAD!
I have been a avid weight trainer for nearly two decades now. However, after years of experience, articles read, and advice from others experienced lifters; Mark Rippetoe has explained more valuable information in his first two chapters than I have acquired in my years in the gym. I will listen to this book at least four more times before I start the program, due to the information overload I have recieved. Great book!
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- Anonymous User
- 02-21-21
Changed my life
Been searching for years for the right information. Thank you Rip! Enjoyed every bit of the book.
p.s Stop being so mean to Californians in your podcase lol
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- Mickie G
- 02-05-21
Essential Reading/Supplemental Listening
Essential for all interested in barbells, Rip's monotone analyzes and teaches optimal lifting mechanics honed by experience via very practical approaches. The teaching method for the major lifts seems applicable and likely effective for a vast swath of gym goers from the total noob to the veteran.
However, not all of the advice on all the topics lands (always read critically), and the audio book is not a substitute for the visual book especially for the lack of visual figures. The audio makes for great supplemental listening while you lift.
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- Aaron
- 02-02-21
Equally valuable for the novice and the expert
I’ve been lifting for many years and this changed everything for me. Definitely worth it. Need to go find the pdf online for some images, diagrams and tables though
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- Jordan Van Dyk
- 01-12-21
Highly informative and clear
I wish I had started my training after reading this book. I am reading this book far too long after beginning, but man, did I still learn a lot! This book was fantastic! I have never benefited so much from another audio book. Mark does a fantastic job of breaking down each list, it’s reason for inclusion in his program, and accessory list as well. Overall, five star.
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- Jack Rudgley
- 03-24-21
Excellent information
Really interesting and informative. Hard to review it on 'story' as its a reference book. Absolutely worth a listen if you use weights in any of your training.
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- Mr B
- 11-24-20
Must buy
Brilliant listen, everything is so well explained you don't need the book...learn something new every listen
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- Dale Braithwaite
- 05-14-20
Clear and concise information
It misses the pictures, but the ideas are so clearly explained by rip, you don't actually need them.
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- Mr. Alan Devane
- 05-09-20
As a fitness professional... Its a must
Loved this book from Mark Ripptoe.. Every important barbell exercise broken down into minute detail.. 5 stars all the way
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- riccardo
- 01-29-20
An eye opener
Having been in the fitness profession for over 20 years as a PT and strength and conditioning coach, hearing the rational for various training modalities the information in this book comes over as the most rational sound. I just wish I'd read it 20 years ago.
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- boho mark
- 01-05-20
Must read for strength athletes
Any strength athletes, or athlete who requires strength of any kind, is missing a lot, if they have not read this book. All the fundamentals covered in detail in an easy to understand format. Brilliant! Five stars
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- Sblig
- 07-30-19
Just fantastic
Excellent book. This is perhaps the very best information for the new, intermediate and advanced strength training athlete.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-22-19
The book that introduced me to barbells
No other person can narrate this book but Rip himself. And it's done perfectly. It supplements the written version for sure.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-29-21
Pearls of wisdom from the pink fat man
The single best piece of literature in barbell strength training ever made. Engaging well-written and well narrated content that stands above the parapet in a sea of misinformation and spurious claims.
Common sense expertly dispensed.