In 2005, Mark Rippetoe published Starting Strength, a now-classic, beginner-friendly training guide that has sold more than 500,000 copies in the decade-plus since and is considered a must-read for anyone who hopes to master the fundamentals of barbell lifts. While his place among the pantheon of strength coaching legends may be secure, however, Rippetoe, 65, says he has no plans to take it easy. What makes this proclamation all the more impressive is that Rippetoe is currently rehabbing a quadriceps tendon rupture, the latest in a long line of injuries that have occurred outside the gym. “You don’t let injuries heal, you heal them through rehab,” the gravelly-voiced teacher of countless seminars tells me. “You have to keep trying to get stronger, because as you age, there are forces at work making you weaker and you need to arrest that process.”Rippetoe’s seminars and Starting Strength-branded gyms now deliver strength training to trainees of varying experience levels. There, Rippetoe places considerable emphasis on meeting the needs of novice and intermediate-level lifters seeking a pathway to progressively increasing strength rather than elite athletes looking to fine-tune their performances. With that in mind, I asked Rippetoe to share some insights that might benefit trainees of all ages who wish to improve their quality of life by picking up or getting under a barbell.What do you wish you’d known when you were a novice, long before you’d embarked on a decade-long run as a competitive powerlifter?I wish I’d known the logic of the stress—recovery—adaptation… Click below to read the full story from Men’s Health
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Strength Coaching Legend Mark Rippetoe Shared His Best Advice to Help Everyone Build Muscle
