I disagree. The fact that I made progress on this program proves it's worth. My prior experience with weight lifting isn't really relevant, especially given t

I disagree. The fact that I made progress on this program proves it's worth. My prior experience with weight lifting isn't really relevant, especially given the multi-year layoff in between. When I came to stronglifts I was, for all intents and purposes, starting all over again. Based on my experience with it so far, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to a beginner - and in fact, have. It's important to note - at the risk of sounding like i'm appealing to authority - that the people who originally advocated this program have years of experience training themselves, and training other people. At least one well known proponent has a relevant degree. And no, these are not your usual PHd in bro-science "trainers" - they've trained elite competitors and olympic atheletes. If they say this a good program for beginners, I'm inclined to take them at their word. Having watched most of the beginners at the gym I'm at now, I can say for a fact that stronglifts would be a hell of a lot better than the average beginner's routine of sixty sets of curls, 20 sets of calf raises, 10 sets of reverse-incline-dumbell-flye-extension-no-set-hyper-mega-extensions, etc. etc....