🗣️:Mark Rippetoe's "Starting Strength" has been the gateway for millions to get under the bar. His impact on the strength training world is undeniable, and his book has been a go-to resource for weightlifters worldwide. "Starting Strength" is simple: being strong is better than being weak. We can debate back angles, “hip drahve”, and GOMAD - the fact remains that strength is what counts in lifting. Ever since I read “Practical Programming”, a bucket list item of mine was to attend a “Starting Strength” seminar in its birthplace of Wichita Falls, and it lived up to the hype. I watched Rip coach the entire weekend, 12-hour days of cuing, applying knowledge, and explaining the why behind the methodology. Like the best coaches I know, Rip is able to manipulate movement with a single cue, and improve the entire lift, without over-coaching and over-correcting word vomit. Rip invites anyone to try his method and if they have a better way to reliably increase strength, then use it. He does...