This book is for anyone serious about learning or coaching the basic lifts.
Mark Rippetoe Books
Mark Rippetoe is an American strength coach and author recognized for his practical approach to building strength. His methodology, rooted in decades of experience and refinement, focuses on the fundamental principles of effective strength development. Rippetoe emphasizes efficiency and evidence-based practices aimed at maximizing strength gains for trainees. His work offers readers a clear and actionable framework for achieving their physical goals.
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.