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

While I believe that Mark Rippetoe's Starting Strength is a good program, this app is not a good representation of said program. It is not intutive and simple enough to use. If I just finished my last set of squats, and I click the "next rep" button, why doesn't it take me to the next exercise? Why am I forced to click on the menu on top? Why do I have to tap the phone, to silence the countdown timer, once it hits 0? Why not just make it beep 3 or 5 times? Why do I always have to login again every time I turn on the app to backup my data? Why are there like 4 or 5 buttons on the workout screen, all of them with different options? The only thing on my workout screen should be my exercises (sets and reps), weights and a timer. All the extra options and settings, just keep them in a separate menu. Why does the app respond terribly to landscape mode? Why is there even a landscape mode, when it's not even needed in the first place? Stronglifts is a complete ripoff of Starting Strength, but their app is simple and intuitive to use. That's a big reason why its such a successful app and you can't keep up with your competition with apps like these. Keep it simple.

UPDATE: The new changes fixed the app for me. It's still a little sluggish but it doesn't crash. It makes calculating the weights for each warm up and set easy, definitely worth the money. This could be a great app but it constantly crashes and the UI is a bit unintuitive. More than anything I just wish I could count on it to run without freezing at the loading screen regularly.

A little expensive (especially when other apps are free), but it gets the job done. Especially helpful is the plate calculator. Combined with automatic weight progression, all you need to do is show up and lift. Includes some of the text from each chapter, along with a gif of the movements, so you can review your form between sets. Would be nice if they added the option to make Wednesday a light squat day.

What's new

Fixed:
Rest Timer background notifications
External Links not working