Starting Strength, 3rd Edition - Mark Rippetoe [211]
Blind obedience to the uninformed and obviously incorrect opinion of a professional who should know better represents lost opportunity and wasted time and money. For lots of marginally gifted kids, weight training is often the difference between a scholarship opportunity and a prohibitively expensive advanced education. Many people who could have benefited from improved strength, power, bone density, balance, coordination, flexibility, and confidence have instead done what they were told and have not benefited at all. Not all expensive advice is worth the money.
Authors
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Mark Rippetoe is the author (rather obviously) of Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, Practical Programming for Strength Training 2nd edition, Strong Enough?, Mean Ol’ Mr. Gravity, and numerous journal, magazine and internet articles. He has worked in the fitness industry since 1978, and has been the owner of the Wichita Falls Athletic Club since 1984. He graduated from Midwestern State University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science in geology and a minor in anthropology. He was in the first group certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a CSCS in 1985, and the first to formally relinquish that credential in 2009. Rip was a competitive powerlifter for ten years, and has coached many lifters and athletes, and many thousands of people interested in improving their strength and performance. He conducts seminars on this method of barbell training around the country.
Stef Bradford, PhD is the operations manager of The Aasgaard Company and Community Organizer for www.startingstrength.com. She received her doctorate in pharmacology from Duke University in 2004. She has been strength training most of her life and a competitive Olympic weightlifter for several years. She teaches barbell training throughout the country.
Jason Kelly is an Illustrator and personal trainer in New York City. He graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration in 2007. He has over 15 years of weight training experience.
Credits
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Photographs
All photographs by Thomas Campitelli unless otherwise noted.
Photographs by Torin Halsey: Figures 2-16, 2-17, 2-20, 2-21, 2-24, 2-34, 2-40, 2-57, 2-58, 2-60, 3-15, 4-6, 4-45, 4-48, 4-49, 4-50, 4-51, 5-4, 5-5, 5-6, 5-10, 5-21, 5-22, 5-27, 5-28, 5-29, 5-32, 6-17, 6-39,6-42, 6-44, 6-45, 6-46, 7-3, 7-13, 7-14, 7-21, 7-25, 7-36, 7-37, 7-38, 7-39, 7-40, 7-41, 7-42, 7-48,7-49, 7-50, 7-51, 7-53, 7-59, 8-6, 8-7. 8-8, 8-11, 8-12, 8-13, 8-14, 8-15.
Photographs in Figures 7-43, 7-45, 7-57, 7-58, 7-61 and 7-62 by Lon Kilgore.
Photographs in Figures 4-1, 4-39, and 5-1 courtesy of Mike Lambert and Powerlifting USA magazine.
Photographs in Figures 2-56 and 7-31 by Stef Bradford.
Photographs in Figures 3-1, 3-2 and 6-1 courtesy of Bill Starr.
Photograph in Figure 7-23 by Bruce Klemens.
Photograph Figure 4-47 by Treva Slagle.
Photograph in Figure 6-37 by Tom Goegebuer.
Models
Ryan Huseman, Andrea Wells, Justin Brimhall, Carrie Klumpar, Stef Bradford, Josh Wells, DeLisa Moore, Damon Wells, Matt Wanat, Ronnie Hamilton, Roland Conde, Paul Ton, Joel Willis, Tara Krieger, Miguel Alemar, and The Orangutan.
Illustrations
All illustrations by Jason Kelly unless otherwise noted.
Figures 6-5, 8-1, and 8-5 from Practical Programming for Strength Training 2nd edition, The Aasgaard Company,
2009.
Figure 2-19 by Stef Bradford and Lon Kilgore.
Figure 6-3 by Stef Bradford.
Illustrations and proof in Figure 4-45 by Matt Lorig.
EMG and force diagrams for figure 8-3 courtesy of Jaqueline Limberg and Alexander Ng of MarquetteUniversity.
Power rack plan in Figure 8-10 by Terry Young.
Feedback
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