Starting Strength (Legacy)

Shabu Pty Ltd

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About this app

Please note this is a legacy app and no longer support (new app coming soon!)

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.

Perfect for following starting strength. The weight plate calcs, and progression set-up is really helpful. You could do it on paper, but the app saves a lot of effort in record keeping. There are a couple of small bugs in the timers between exercises. After warm up, you expect a timer, but it doesn't activate. Between warm up sets you get it, and between set 1-2-3 workset it activates.

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

Lots of bug fixes and optimizations