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.
This book is for anyone serious about learning or coaching the basic lifts.
"Mean ol' Mr. Gravity is a compilation of Q&A posts from Mark Rippetoe's StrengthMill.net forum. Edited for brevity, efficiency, clarity, accuracy, and taste (in a loose sense, sorry), MOMG adds to the information available in Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training and Practical Programming for Strength Training by tailoring it to the individual through his responses to questions posed by actual humans regarding their own training. It preserves the coarseness, humor, and candor that have become Rip's trademark style."--P. [4] of cover.
Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training is the new expanded version of the book that has been called "the best and most useful of fitness books." It picks up where Starting Strength: A Simple and Practical Guide for Coaching Beginners leaves off. With all new graphics and more than 750 illustrations, a more detailed analysis of the five most important exercises in the weight room, and a new chapter dealing with the most important assistance exercises, Basic Barbell Training offers the most complete examination in print of the most effective way to exercise.