"Stronglifts" : odd blurb

[beforewisdom]

lobsteriffic got me interested in checking the Stronglift. It is basically a bare bones strength training program using free weights and compound exercises.

I found the blurb from the founder, kind of odd:

StrongLifts.com is “The Place” where truly smart, natural, masculine strength trainers with a love for free weights, a sincere desire to gain muscle and strength (without spending their life in the gym),

I didn't realize there was epidemic of effeminate weight lifters out there .

Joking aside, I will look into it. I can never do a progressive resistance program without using up at least an hour by the time warmups and other gym things are rolled in.

[SpugFab]

I think chewybaws followed this program before he joined a powerlifting club. I could be mistaken though.

[baldy]

Check out this thread -> "What do you think about stronglifts.com" viewtopic.php?f=16&t=21924&p=360775

[KC Masterpiece]

I can never do a progressive resistance program without using up at least an hour by the time warmups and other gym things are rolled in.

There's some witty quip by Rippetoe in his book about lifters claiming to not have time to train that would be apropos here...

That being said, with warm-ups, training, warm-down and transit time, when you get in the 3:00+ range it can get kind of frustrating. To that extent, Stronglifts is probably the worst offender for long training sessions of all the "major" progressive loading routines out there.

There are quicker (and IMO, better) routines designed by better qualified people, that don't come with a massive cult/really creepy thoughts on politics, society and gender/questionable training recommendations in tow.

[beforewisdom]

There are quicker (and IMO, better) routines designed by better qualified people, that don't come with a massive cult/really creepy thoughts on politics, society and gender/questionable training recommendations in tow.

eh? what do politics and gender have to do with weight training?

Its just a piece of iron sitting on the floor.

It doesn't care about gender or politics.

[KC Masterpiece]

Indeed.

But Mehdi is marketing Stronglifts as a "package" that includes a total life-overhaul, blah blah blah--check out some of the sub-forums at the site.

[beforewisdom]

I'm surprised people would let him tack on politics to their exercise.

[Fallen_Horse]

I found the blurb from the founder, kind of odd:

StrongLifts.com is “The Place” where truly smart, natural, masculine strength trainers with a love for free weights, a sincere desire to gain muscle and strength (without spending their life in the gym),

I didn't realize there was epidemic of effeminate weight lifters out there .
.

Hey at least he is emphasizing the 'natural' part! Most places don't give a crap....

[beforewisdom]

I found the blurb from the founder, kind of odd:

StrongLifts.com is “The Place” where truly smart, natural, masculine strength trainers with a love for free weights, a sincere desire to gain muscle and strength (without spending their life in the gym),

I didn't realize there was epidemic of effeminate weight lifters out there .
.

Hey at least he is emphasizing the 'natural' part! Most places don't give a crap....

I wasn't aware of a trend of artificially produced strength trainers running around either. Darned replicants!

[chewybaws]

http://stronglifts.com/stronglifts-community-is-now-private/

The guy's a moron.

The program is good. The technique advice is fairly good. Sadly this only makes a very small part of the stronglifts site, the rest is garbage. The ebook isn't even available anymore. And the blog is more concerned with becoming a successful person than weight training. I'm sick of reading about tiger woods and whatever motivational book Mehdi's reading.

[baldy]

http://stronglifts.com/stronglifts-community-is-now-private/

The guy's a moron.

The program is good. The technique advice is fairly good. Sadly this only makes a very small part of the stronglifts site, the rest is garbage. The ebook isn't even available anymore. And the blog is more concerned with becoming a successful person than weight training. I'm sick of reading about tiger woods and whatever motivational book Mehdi's reading.

+1 and he isn't really that strong.

[Lordmuppet]

http://stronglifts.com/stronglifts-community-is-now-private/

The guy's a moron.

The program is good. The technique advice is fairly good. Sadly this only makes a very small part of the stronglifts site, the rest is garbage. The ebook isn't even available anymore. And the blog is more concerned with becoming a successful person than weight training. I'm sick of reading about tiger woods and whatever motivational book Mehdi's reading.

+1 and he isn't really that strong.

It's surprisingly hard to find a simple list of his ORMs. The current bio has this

"he’s now Squatting and Deadlifting almost 400lbs/500lbs at about 170lbs body-weight (5’8″)". Can't seem to find bench numbers.

aka
Squat almost 181kg
Deadlift almost 226kg

so assuming the bench is okay he'd probably be somewhere between 20-30th on our table.

Strength of course is all relative so question is how strong you have to be to justify setting up your own wee training empire. Reasonable answer seems to me that you should compare well to others doing the same sort of thing (e.g. Rippetoe).

His numbers dwarf mine or course but then again I'm not trying to start up my own empire of Muppetry

edited to say: as I've said before i started out on Stronglifts 5x5 and I'm grateful for the introduction to strength training it gave me

[lobsteriffic]

Haha, I just saw this.

Beforewisdom, I should have told you to just look at the program and to not pay any mind to all of the garbage on that site.

Actually I should give Chewy credit, he is the one that motivated me to use Stronglifts after I saw what great progress he had with the program.

[chewybaws]

http://stronglifts.com/red-meat-causes-cancer-truth-or-myth/Seriously fed up of this guy

[vegan hal]

i've pretty much structured my lifting based on Stronglifts. it's been a great simple program to follow and I've tweaked it over the 2 yrs I've been doing it. BUT i don;t read his other crap.