Starting Strength

If you’re flexible enough now, take a grip wide enough to permit straight wrists under the bar, and then with each set, narrow your grip a little until it is tight and secure. Mark this position as the grip you will use.

This movement keeps your weight solidly over the whole foot instead of

If in doubt, leave it out.

The hard parts to train correctly are the ones you can’t see.

Before you even get through the door of the weight room, you should already know every single thing you will do while you are there, the order in which you will do it, how much weight you will do it with, and how to determine the next workout based on what you do today.

made, and the last workout you completed should just be repeated set for set. But if you continually

Like it or not, we remain the possessors of potentially strong muscle, bone, sinew, and nerve, and these hard-won commodities demand our attention.

the further back the hips are, the more hip muscle you use, and the further forward the knees, the more quad you use.

A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.