Despite the fact that it's recommended in the sticky there is yet to be a consensus. Is Starting Strength a meme? Will you end up looking like a fridge? Feel free to debate it.
Is SS a Meme?
Jackson Hall
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Daniel Lewis
No. If you're doing barbell lifts you're gonna get stronger fast.
Matthew Sanchez
It worked for me
Austin Thomas
Use it to get your baseline for strength user, that shit isn't supposed to be done for 2 straight years or something. After you hit and maintain the working weight you want you progress to hypertrophy and accessory work to define and enlarge parts of your physique you find lacking.
It is only a meme because it works and people on brosplits don't want to start with that stuff and move straight to aesthetics work so they shit on it.
Luke Russell
Do this
Workout A
Box Squat 3/5×4-6
Floor Press 3/5×4-6
Pendlay Row 3/5×4-6
Overhead Barbell Extension 3×6-10
Barbell/Dumbbell Preacher Curl 3×6-10
Stiff-Legged Deadlift/Good Morning 2-3×6-10
Weighted Plank 3×30-60s
Workout B
Box Squat 3/5×4-6
Paused Overhead Press 3/5×4-6
Trap-Bar Deadlift 2×4-6
Close-Grip Bench Press 3×6-8
Weighted Chin-up 3×3-5
Weighted Plank 3×30-60s
Cameron Diaz
Who the fuck would actually recommend this atrocity of a program to an actual novice lifter
Aaron Anderson
I agree with you. I fucked my back doing pendlay rows following SS sticky meme.
I think SS is retarded though, way too much stress on your legs than your upper body. I'd do SS but swap bench press with squats, bench 3 times a week, squat 3 times/2 weeks for more aesthetic body proportions.
Aiden Thomas
It's a novice program dumbass
Jack Flores
Yes and I'm saying it's a shitty novice program you fucking retard.
"This is a novice program designed for first year lifters. If you cannot bench 225×5, squat 315×5, and deadlift 405×5, then you are a novice lifter."
>proceeds to not include squat, bench, or deadlift
Jordan Myers
I wouldnt call it a good routine. I wouldnt call it a bad one either. It depends on your goals.
I've always seen much faster and better gains by focusing on progressive overload working on one lift 3x per week, and don't really see any decent gains doing lifts once or twice a week. I literally only saw squat progression doing SS. Any program that recommends you doing an exercise as low as once a week is a fucking meme. I didn't see bench or OHP progression and ended up straight overloading by attempting to keep on the progression path the program offered.
Learn training philosophies and methods and do your own programming to find your best results.