Matt and Scott analyze and justify every aspect of the Starting Strength Linear Progression. The boys explain in why we use the weight, sets, reps, movements frequency and more in an easy to understand, in depth way.

Stress, Recovery and Adaptation is the overarching concept discovered by Hans Selye that we use when creating ALL barbell and strength programming.  We use the barbell and our program to apply stress that the trainee then can recover from, resulting in a beneficial adaptation.   We can adapt to the stress of moving heavy weights in the same way we […]

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Matt and Scott discuss why effective strength training programming must be simple, hard, and effective.  The boys crack jokes about groin trauma, but still manage to describe why simplicity and strenuousness are necessary to be effective in increasing strength.   The Starting Strength program fits all of these criteria. Links:  Gillian Ward https://www.instagram.com/gillianwardathlete/ Note – We decided to release this […]

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Starting Strength Coaches, Reynolds and Hambrick discuss the criteria we should use to select exercises that will make us as strong as possible. The boys then apply those criteria and pick the lifts we should train to get as strong as possible.   Serge Reding 502 Press:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nJrYPVJ88M   Follow us on all social media, search for Barbell Logic Podcast […]

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In this first episode, SSC’s Matt Reynolds and Scott Hambrick discuss the basics of strength training and why strength is so important.