So I was reading a sticky and came across Rippetoe's Starting Strength. Here it goes
Workout A
>Chest
Bench press 3x10
Incline bench press 3x10
>Shoulders
Overhead press 4x8
>Legs
Squat 4x8
Workout B
>Back
Pullup/Lat pulldown 3x10
Barbell row 3x10
>Back/Legs
Deadlift 4x8
>Biceps
Biceps curl 3x10
What would you change. Take into account that I'm a newbie.
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What's your actual goal?
To become healthier and stronger. Nice muscles wouldn't hurt either
Starting strength is geared only towards getting stronger. You'll have to bulk to make it work right, which directly contradicts your goal of getting healthier. The program is geared towards putting mass on underweight teenagers, which may not apply to you.
What point are you starting from? Are you an underweight teenager? Are you an obese 30 something office drone? Did any sports in the past?
25 year old kinda fit, 185cm 85kg. Why do you think this program wouldn't work for me
Not saying it won't work for you. At your age, height, and weight, you won't put on muscle as fast as the program describes without eating enough that you get plain old fat. You're not doing sports in high school, so you won't be able to keep the weight off. I'd say spring is the wrong time of year for this.
If you want to get healthy and strong, sure, those lifts are fine to get you started. Understand that healthy = being lean and doing cardio, though, which run counter to SS. Don't fall for the bloatloard meme now.
My advice to get you going is to do those lifts, sure, they're fine, but rotate in a full on cardio/abs day in as well and don't let yourself go above 90kg. Get your TDEE and macros really figured out. Come fall, after you've learned your way around the lifts and diet, consider a bulk. If you're not completely noodle-arm dyel, consider concentrating on getting abs for the summer - you're probably going to get more pleasure out of that than the little strength increase you'll see between now and then.
>kinda fit
Do you have a background in sports or something? What makes you think you're fit?
I'm 188cm and can tell you that if you have 0 gainz under your belt you're easily 5kg overweight.
>What makes you think you're fit?
I haven't had any health issues so far
Thanks. I'm going to change this routine in 2 or 3 month of time to a more intermediate level
>I haven't had any health issues so far
Wrong. If you can't:
>run 1km in 4 min or less
>bench lmao1pl8
>deadlift your bw or squat lmao2pl8
>do a few pullups
You suffer from acute couch potatoism. If you run a PL-oriented program like SS you will get fat. If you don't eat at a steep surplus you won't be able to keep up with the program as prescribed.
agree with the anon, SS is not bad in a sense that it doesn't work, its goal is simply different from what you are expecting and hence 'bad' for you
>So I was reading a sticky and came across Rippetoe's Starting Strength
What does this have to do with the "program" you posted?
>The program is geared towards putting mass on underweight teenagers
No, it isn't.
Shit, the fatass SS schills have found us. Abandon thread!
>which directly contradicts your goal of getting healthier
Bulking in a proper way is healthy. Nobody talks about stuffing yourself up with shit for the sole purpose of lifting 3 plates. People is moronic, the program is not.
>The program is geared towards putting mass on underweight teenagers
No it is not.
>bulking is healthy
Post gut.
nta but are you fricking moronic
SS is a meme newfriend. You should do something like PHUL, Reg Park's 5x5 or Alphadestiny novice program.
>Need a professional advice
find a better website
hey bro glad you're getting into ISTness! just poppin in here to let you know your program looks fine, just be sure to toss a few sets of curls in there every once in a while!
That's not starting strength.
Read the starting strength book, it will be useful even if you don't do the program