Mark Rippetoe has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 1 narrator, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 36 ratings. The most-rated is Strong Enough? Thoughts on Thirty Years of Barbell Training.
Strong Enough? Thoughts on Thirty Years of Barbell Training
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There are lots of things about weight training in general and barbell exercise in particular that can only be learned by spending way too many hours in the gym. And honestly, unless you're a gym owner, this is a really weird way to spend 75 hours a week. Mark Rippetoe has been in the fitness industry since 1978 and has owned a black-iron gym since 1984. He knows things about lifting weights and training for performance that most other coaches and professionals have never had the chance to learn. This book of essays offers a glimpse into the depths of experience made possible through many years under the bar, and many more years spent helping others under the bar.
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Starting Strength
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Starting Strength has been called the best and most useful of fitness books. It has sold over a half-million copies in a competitive global market for fitness education. The updated third edition expands and improves on the previous teaching methods and biomechanical analysis. No other book on barbell training ever written provides the detailed instruction on every aspect of the basic barbell exercises. And while the methods for implementing barbell training detailed in the audiobook are primarily aimed at young athletes, they have been successfully applied to everyone: young and old, male and female, fit and flabby, sick and healthy, weak and already strong. Many people all over the world have used the simple biological principle of stress/recovery/adaptation on which this method is based to improve their performance, their appearance, and their long-term health. Starting Strength is the most important method available to learn the most effective way to train with barbells - the most important way to improve your strength, your health, and your life. Why barbells are the most effective tools for strength training. The mechanical basis of barbell training, concisely and logically explained. Complete, easy-to-follow instructions for performing the basic barbell exercises: the squat, press, deadlift, bench press, power clean, and the power snatch. Revised instruction methods for all six lifts, proven effective in four years of seminar, military, and group instruction. How the human body adapts to stress through recovery, and why this is the foundation of the development of strength and lifetime health. How to program the basic exercises into the most effective program for long-term progress. The most productive method in existence for anyone beginning a strength training program.
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Practical Programming for Strength Training - 3rd Edition
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There is a difference between exercise and training. Exercise is physical activity for its own sake, a workout done for the effect it produces today, during the workout or right after you're through. Training is physical activity done with a longer-term goal in mind, the constituent workouts of which are specifically designed to produce that goal. Training is how athletes prepare to win, and how all motivated people approach physical preparation. Practical Programming for Strength Training - 3rd Edition addresses the topic of training. It details the mechanics of the process, from the basic physiology of adaptation to the specific programs that apply these principles to novice, intermediate, and advanced lifters. Each section completely updated Better explanations of the proven programs that have been helping hundreds of thousands of lifters get stronger more efficiently Expanded novice section with the details of 3 different approaches to the problem of getting stuck and special approaches for the underweight and overweight trainee Expanded intermediate section with 18 separate programs and 11 detailed examples Expanded advanced section with detailed examples of 9 different programs Expanded special populations section with example programs for women and masters lifters training through their 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s Day-to-day, workout-to-workout, week-by-week detailed programs for every level of training advancement The most comprehensive audiobook on the theory and practice of programming for strength training.
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