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Unsurprisingly, there is what looks like a paywall / call-to-spam at the end of the 2nd page. For those who want a non-engineer's guide, I cannot recommend str

Unsurprisingly, there is what looks like a paywall / call-to-spam at the end of the 2nd page. For those who want a non-engineer's guide, I cannot recommend strengtheory.com enough. Greg Nuckols is legitimately strong and legitimately up to date with the research. I'm also struck the idiosyncratic exercise selection. For most beginners a boring group of barbell exercises and a flourish of bicep curls and pullups will get them started. Typically in less time, with less equipment. Take the dumbbell RDL, for example. Most people can't get the barbell variant even vaguely right and it has an entire bar to cue you about what path to follow. Hand grippers? Right out of the gate? The good ones aren't cheap. Or you could just wait until grip strength is a limiting factor.

douche 10y ago
I haven't found anything easier to get started with and stick with than the 5x5 program. Squats, deadlifts, bench, overhead press and rows to work the major muscle groups. Start light and build up slowly and steadily. Although my strength-building workout of choice has always been sawing, splitting and stacking firewood. Talk about building functional strength...
- jodrellblank 10y ago
  That's the basis of the http://www.shovelglove.com/ http://www.shovelglove.com/ workout - take a sledgehammer as a weight, and do labor-equivalent motions with it. Shovelling, splitting wood, rowing, churning butter, harvesting food, etc.
rawnlq 10y ago
+1 to strengtheory.com. For example this is probably the absolute best resource on squatting on the internet: http://strengtheory.com/how-to-squat/ http://strengtheory.com/how-to-squat/. For noobs, do StrongLifts 5x5 or Starting Strength instead. Minimal viable workout over premature optimizations! Hand grippers and citrulline malate you'll probably not need for a long long time.

douche 10y ago

I haven't found anything easier to get started with and stick with than the 5x5 program. Squats, deadlifts, bench, overhead press and rows to work the major muscle groups. Start light and build up slowly and steadily. Although my strength-building workout of choice has always been sawing, splitting and stacking firewood. Talk about building functional strength...

jodrellblank 10y ago
That's the basis of the http://www.shovelglove.com/ http://www.shovelglove.com/ workout - take a sledgehammer as a weight, and do labor-equivalent motions with it. Shovelling, splitting wood, rowing, churning butter, harvesting food, etc.

rawnlq 10y ago

+1 to strengtheory.com. For example this is probably the absolute best resource on squatting on the internet: http://strengtheory.com/how-to-squat/ http://strengtheory.com/how-to-squat/. For noobs, do StrongLifts 5x5 or Starting Strength instead. Minimal viable workout over premature optimizations! Hand grippers and citrulline malate you'll probably not need for a long long time.