"Mark Rippetoe's first two books detail the technical aspects of each primary barbell lifts and major assistance exercises, and created a program for the basic acquisition of strength using these lifts. This program is known as the Starting Strength barbell training program, or simply Starting Strength. The program involves:
3 sets of 5 repetitions of the squat, bench press, and overhead press;
5 sets of 3 repetitions of the power clean; and
1 set of 5 repetitions of the deadlift;
The bench press is alternated with overhead press and deadlift once a week, using power cleans on the other two days. Weights are gradually increased in each session until strength gains reach a plateau. He advocates 3 sessions per week for beginners and drinking a gallon of whole milk per day if underweight to maximize strength gains."
Pic below doesn't need to be posted, but it's related and hilarious so whatever:
I did SS when I first started working out and it was great for my legs (doubled my squat, 140 to 280 for reps) but didn't do much else. Rippetoe was never that amazing a power lifter and he told his trainee (bubbles in the above picture) to eat around 7k calories a day (not a typo) a lot of which was from chocolate sundaes. The dude is legit insane is what I'm getting at.
You'll do fine eating 3k-4k calories a day and you can work out as many times a week as you want as long as you give each individual muscle time to recover. I do 3 workouts being push/pull/legs with 1-2 days rest between each workout. I'm still getting great strength gains while acquiring dem aesthetics. IMO weightlifting is all about figuring out what works best for YOU.
Originally Posted by BoomThunda
"Mark Rippetoe's first two books detail the technical aspects of each primary barbell lifts and major assistance exercises, and created a program for the basic acquisition of strength using these lifts. This program is known as the Starting Strength barbell training program, or simply Starting Strength. The program involves:
