The short story is he said everyone (literally everyone) should do 5x5s of squat, deadlift, and bench. With a little bit of pullups and bent over rows. And everything beyond that was totally useless.
The fiasco was basically just that reddit ate it up lol. For years all the weightlifting subs just recommended that. You still catch whiffs of it but usually someone corrects it
can you tell me more about that starting strength fiasco? I don’t remember reading about it back then
It’s a book/exercise methodology by Mark Rippetoe
The short story is he said everyone (literally everyone) should do 5x5s of squat, deadlift, and bench. With a little bit of pullups and bent over rows. And everything beyond that was totally useless.
The fiasco was basically just that reddit ate it up lol. For years all the weightlifting subs just recommended that. You still catch whiffs of it but usually someone corrects it
i’m familiar with starting strength (and unfortunately with mark as well), i gather there was at least an ama or two, but hadn’t seen them for myself.
very good to know - cheers