Starting Strength Official

Shabu Pty Ltd

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About this app

~~~~~~~ 4.9 Star Average Reviews from thousands of users ~~~~~~~~

The "Starting Strength" series of books by Mark Rippetoe have sold over 500,000 copies worldwide and is considered the most productive method in existence for anyone beginning a strength training program.

This is the app version of the book a workout log with the Starting Strength Novice Program Phase 1 and Phase 2 and the Female Novice Program.

"The best book ever written on strength training" - Jim Wendler, champion powerlifter.

The Starting Strength Method is the fastest, most efficient and straightforward way to increase total body strength for complete beginners.

Features:
-- Complete, easy-to-follow instructions for performing the basic barbell exercises: the squat, press, deadlift, bench press and power clean
-- Designed for use at the gym with quick access to multiple angle videos and photo instructions of each exercise.
-- Lift instructions and diagrams from the Starting Strength Book by Mark Rippetoe.
-- Interactive logging tools journal your strength progression.
-- Warmup and workset calculator shows you exactly how many plates to put on each side of the bar.
-- Workset Rest Timer, customisable for each exercise.
-- Customise your progression for each exercise.
-- Add and save additional notes for each workout, and access previous notes easily.
-- Never lose your training data again! Cloud Sync backs up your training log data and restores it across multiple devices.
-- Download training log data as CSV (requires cloud sync)
-- Helpful hints and tutorials help you learn and progress safely.
-- How to program the basic exercises into the most effective program for long-term progress.
-- Metric (kgs) or Imperials (Lbs)
-- Get Form Checks From Starting Strength Coaches!

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Ratings and reviews

Perfect. Simply perfect. Please don't change a thing. Update: they changed a lot of things. I have very poor Wi-Fi in my basement where I work out, it seems the app depends on a solid Internet connection. Make the app almost useless. You can't make changes to the weights in your inventory, you have to update every single exercise when you modify your weights. There's no way to go back and complete today's training if you accidently submit it, because it's easy to do and not intuitive.

I really like it, works great for me and I appreciate that it's a one time payment rather than a sub like a lot of other fitness apps. Edit: in my original review i complained that there is a lack of female programs. Apparently there is no female phase 2 and 3 in the original program. No fault of the app so my rating has been updated.

Somewhat functional, but bugged. All I want is to go into the app and have it figure out that since I did the press last time, I need to do the bench today. Instead I have to manually set the second exercise every time. It's also as other reviewers have noted, slow and occasionally unresponsive. Data storage should be local first, not cloud first, and the app should opportunistically sync. Second star for functioning well enough as a weight calculator.