Related article from Starting Strength - Barbell Training is Big Medicine [1]: >> I’ll approach a patient who has come to be treated for chronic pain, fatigue,

Related article from Starting Strength - Barbell Training is Big Medicine [1]: >> I’ll approach a patient who has come to be treated for chronic pain, fatigue, elevated blood pressure, shortness of breath, or a blood sugar that’s out of control. I find myself confronted by a very overweight, deconditioned 52 year-old, going on 70, with battered joints, atrophic muscles, no physiologic reserve, an inability to get off the gurney without groaning and wheezing, and a grim future. When I work them up, I find no medical emergency, just what I have come to call “diatensionolesity”—type II diabetes, hypertension, a screwed-up blood-lipid profile, and obesity. And I think to myself: If I could get you under the bar, I could change your life. [1] https://startingstrength.com/article/barbell_training_is_big_medicine https://startingstrength.com/article/barbell_training_is_big...