Starting Strength

The thing that differentiates a good program from a less-good program is its ability to continue stimulating the desired adaptation.

The machines were designed to be used in a specific order, one after another without a pause between sets, since different body parts were being worked consecutively. And the central idea (from a commercial standpoint) was that if enough machines – each working a separate body part – were added together in a circuit, the entire body was being train

Every time you use this motion to propel yourself out of the bottom of the squat, you train the muscles in the posterior chain.

Multiple work sets cause the body to adapt to a larger volume of work, an adaptation that comes in handy for those training for sports performance.

If additional warm-up is desirable (as with a cold room, older trainees, or injured lifters), multiple sets can be done with the empty bar and the first loaded set.

They are the very components of our existence, the quality of which now depends on our conscious, directed effort at giving them the stimulus they need to stay in the condition that is normal to them. Exercise is that stimulus.

York Barbell model 38 Olympic Barbell set

Arthur Jones invented a type of exercise equipment that revolutionized resistance exercise.

This is the most common error made by novice trainees: the confusion of strength training with conditioning work.