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Starting Strength is a decent place to start for barbell exercise, but it's very much in the spirit of The Strongest Shall Survive: Strength Training for Footba

by User23 5y ago

Starting Strength is a decent place to start for barbell exercise, but it's very much in the spirit of The Strongest Shall Survive: Strength Training for Football[1]. Therefore, if you're not a pubescent male with north of 1,000 ng/dL of testosterone and competitive athletic ambitions you'll probably want to modify the programming. I also hear good things about The Physics of Resistance Exercise, but I've yet to read it. An important thing about resistance exercise is that it's not just about muscles. It also stimulates the skeletal system to make your bones more dense, strengthens your ligaments and tendons, and perhaps most importantly stimulates the central nervous system. The latter is the likely mechanism for cognitive benefits. [1] It's arguably the better book, but it's out of print and you're going to be looking at about a couple hundred bucks at least for a copy.

throw0101a 5y ago
> Therefore, if you're not a pubescent male Rippetoe, the author of the book, is 65 years old: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rippetoe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rippetoe It's a book for beginners and anyone can use the linear progression method. Once you've progressed beyond just a beginner, The Barbell Prescription takes the Starting Strength idea and adapts for for people 40 and older: * https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34823846-the-barbell-prescription https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34823846-the-barbell-... One of the co-authors (an MD) runs the GreySteel YT channel (and he's no spring chicken): * https://www.youtube.com/c/GreySteel/about https://www.youtube.com/c/GreySteel/about
- kemayo 5y ago
  You can see their basic program here: https://startingstrength.com/get-started/programs https://startingstrength.com/get-started/programs It has advice for how much to increase weight by which varies based on age and gender. (It's basically "slow down if you're not an 18-35 year old man".)
- User23 5y ago
  Right; "Modify the programming". I assure you that Rip lifts different now than he did 50 years ago.

by User23 5y ago

throw0101a 5y ago

> Therefore, if you're not a pubescent male Rippetoe, the author of the book, is 65 years old: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rippetoe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rippetoe It's a book for beginners and anyone can use the linear progression method. Once you've progressed beyond just a beginner, The Barbell Prescription takes the Starting Strength idea and adapts for for people 40 and older: * https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34823846-the-barbell-prescription https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34823846-the-barbell-... One of the co-authors (an MD) runs the GreySteel YT channel (and he's no spring chicken): * https://www.youtube.com/c/GreySteel/about https://www.youtube.com/c/GreySteel/about

kemayo 5y ago
You can see their basic program here: https://startingstrength.com/get-started/programs https://startingstrength.com/get-started/programs It has advice for how much to increase weight by which varies based on age and gender. (It's basically "slow down if you're not an 18-35 year old man".)
User23 5y ago
Right; "Modify the programming". I assure you that Rip lifts different now than he did 50 years ago.