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Strong Enough? Thoughts on Thirty Years of Barbell Training
- Narrated by: Mark Rippetoe
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
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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- Matt St P
- 20-08-20
my favorite narrator
he could read the phone book and I would read it.
Strong content as usual.
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- ItsChrisFAdams
- 28-06-19
Excellent
Can highly recommend if you're interested in strength and fitness. No punches pulled in this book.
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- Sblig
- 05-05-19
Superb
Mark Rippetoe at his finest. Clear, concise, and valuable advice throughout. Simple but effective, backed by research and logic. I’ve personally followed his programming and have found it very effective for myself and clients.
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- Rockstar's mum
- 26-05-22
Talking about strength training...
can be pretty dull when it gets bogged down in the science. Mark is anything but dull. In fact I think he should narrate more books other than his own, he could probably make The Anatomy of Melancholy a pleasure to listen to.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-05-20
Best Coach Ever.
Love all of Marks books. Just superb and so educational. He has a knack of teaching with such precision and leaves no stone unturned.
He has inspired me and more importantly my form is superb due to his teaching. This has enabled me to lift heavy yet safely. Can’t thank him enough. Thanks Mark you are the best.
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- YorkshireManReviews
- 26-05-20
Timeless training wisdom
Covers lots of typical Rip topics - nothing that I haven't heard before, just good solid common sense. Strength making everything better. Old people can't progress as fast as young, spot fat reduction is bs, abs & muscles are side effects. Barbells are best.
Rips narration makes what would be slightly dry topics very entertaining.
Another review claims that Rip says that olympic weightlifting and rugby don't use barbell training. This isn't what he says. Just that he believes that they are not emphasised enough. It should be noted this was written in 2007 (audio produced was recorded much later) and the critical review was written in 2019. Seems a bit unfair to give a 1* review to a 13 year old book by saying it's not up to date.
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-04-22
Brilliant!
If you have a sense of humour, are a beginner or expert in strength or physical training you must listen to Mark read this book.
I said ‘oh no’ out loud when it finished…
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- Liam Kelly
- 17-01-19
Repetitive, uninformative and a little ignorant
Mark shows his age a lot in this book. Claiming sports like Rugby and Olympic Weightlifting don't incorporate strength training at the elite level which is nonsense. In this day and age almost all sports include barbell training as part of their strength and conditioning programmes.
Repeats himself constantly which shows the book really doesn't't have that much content.
Unless you are absolutely new to strength training I would not recommend this book. Even then you'd be better off reading starting strength.
This book is just the ramblings of an old man who's opinions on the fitness industry are out of date
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