I'm trying to not make excuses for delaying working out, but I'm 60 pages in and they haven't said anything worth caring about. Like great, you're telling me the history of gyms and how anatomy works. When do I work out?
It tells you how to squat, bench, clean, and overhead press. It also gives you a fine beginner workout.
It also tells you to eat 5000 calories a day, which is a terrible idea.
I'd read the exercise instructions, and then read thefitness.wiki instead.
You can look up Starting Strength's lifting tutorials on YouTube and skip the book
Only thing I know about this book is that a 4channer followed nothing but this and ended up looking like the devil from Cow & Chicken
Diet advice is fucking awful, Rip is an unironic fascist, only salvageable parts are the bits about deadlift and bench form. I got my start with SS but the whole "brand" really went off the rails and his colleaugues who defected and formed their own brand at Barbell Medicine generally have much better advice
yeah lol
We have Starting Strength Coaches all over the world, affiliate gyms all over the country, and advocates of the method everywhere. ( :doubt: ) They are a bridge between the educational material we create and the tens of thousands of people who elect to get their help with its application. Our “Corporate Culture” is shared by many of them, and is in fact what attracted many of them to Starting Strength.
Here at the gym, our political philosophy is that of the Classical Liberal ( :liberalism: ), outlined quite well on Wikipedia: Classical Liberalism.
In a practical sense, we are conservative libertarians. We believe that the functions of government should be restricted to the protection of individual rights, the provision of services that cannot be provided by the free market: national defense, the enforcement of contracts and common law, and the provision of absolutely necessary public institutions and public works. And that's about it.
There's nothing in here about form some chud in YouTube couldn't show you and that's quicker and arguably easier. I learn best by watching so I just did YouTube videos then by the time I read this thing I was like "huh I saw this in a 19 minute video and got a more useful representation because I could watch the entire movement.
also consider tapping into some of the resources from NSCA (national strength and conditioning association) https://libgen.is/search.php?req=NSCA&lg_topic=libgen&open=0&view=simple&res=25&phrase=1&column=def
Starting Strength is no longer recommended as a good beginner program, there are much better ones out there. I had solid success with 5/3/1 as an intermediate lifter and it got me nearly to a 500lb deadlift at 190lbs body weight, although it's been a couple of years since I have been lifting seriously and I don't know if there's anything that's objectively better that someone else can suggest.
