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The Beauty of the Bell Curve

By Austin Baraki, MD, SSC, ft. Leah Lutz “You refuse to settle for mediocrity in those around you, and you relentlessly push people to be the best version of themselves.” I received this compliment recently from a friend and client of mine, and it got me thinking. It got me thinking about my own experience […]

Transforming My Life, One Rep at a Time

By Leah Lutz Hardly a day goes by that someone doesn’t ask me about my new hobby, my new life, and my new confidence. My life has been profoundly altered with strength training and the nutrition coaching from Barbell Medicine. Three years ago, January 2013, I sent an email to a random guy on the […]

Starting Strength Camps in Australia

Tom Campitelli and I are going to visit Australia this January to hold a series of extended Starting Strength Camps. While camps normally cover one or two lifts, we will be spending approximately eight hours to go over the squat, press, and deadlift at each workshop. The hallmarks of Starting Strength instruction are the excellent […]

September is Strength Month

By Jordan Feigenbaum If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you probably have a vested interest in things pertaining to training, nutrition, and a healthy lifestyle. As such, I’m banking on the fact that you are likely “THE EXERCISE” or “THE HEALTH” person amongst your group of friends and I’d like to exploit that. […]

Barbell Medicine - 12 Ways To Skin The Texas Method

12 Ways To Skin The Texas Method

By Jordan Feigenbaum The Texas Method may be one of the most popular intermediate training programs in existence. Developed by happenstance in Texas (duh) and popularized as a follow-up program to Mark Rippetoe’s Starting Strength Novice Progression (seen here), it’s based on a three-day split that is originally structured as follows: Week 1 Day 1 […]

The Pendulum of Specificity Part II: Fatigue

By Jordan Feigenbaum MS Anatomy and Physiology, Starting Strength Staff,  HFS, CSCS, USAW Club Coach In part two of this series, we’re going to discus the concept of fatigue and review what we’ve learned so far (you can read the first part here). As always, we’ll start out by defining our terms so we can […]

Force Matters

By Austin Baraki   Introduction Today we’ll be discussing a paper published in the Journal of Sports Sciences in April of this year (see here)  analyzing the biomechanics of the vertical jump, power clean, and jump squat. The vertical jump is often used as a diagnostic test to evaluate an athlete’s ability to generate power; […]

Top 10 Mistakes People Following Starting Strength Make

By Jordan Feigenbaum MD, MS, Starting Strength Staff 1) Not reading the book Seriously, most people who are doing “Starting Strength Novice Progression” have never even read the book. They got the “routine”, replete with rows in place of power cleans, of the Internet and are 100% unprepared for what this program requires. Further, because […]

Top 10 Songs To Squat To

I had an excellent squat session today. Getting ready for a meet in March and switched to 3’s. Hit 200kg x 3 x 3 with just a belt. This and a suggestion from another one of our authors got me thinking- what songs do I choose to squat to? Before all my top sets I […]

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