Starting Strength and other reading

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Has anyone read The Westside Barbell Book of Methods
http://www.westside-barbell.com/loui...pment_line.htm

Or Dave Tates Under the Bar?
Elite Fitness Systems

[Chaos Mitten]

The new Westside Barbell book only came out in the last week or two.

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Originally Posted by Chaos Mitten

The new Westside Barbell book only came out in the last week or two.

Gotcha. Id like to pick it up, but just dropped $50 on The Anabolic Index books so dont think spending over $100 in a month on books is a good idea. Anyone plan on buying it?

[EZA]

Most of the people on this board would be much better off getting Verkhoshansky's new book "Special Strength Training: A Practical Manual for Coaches" than getting Supertraining or any of the other russian texts (with the exception of zatsiorsky). Unless you have a thorough background in human performance related fields and have read the russian texts before Supertraining will be like reading another language. Spend the money and get Verkhoshanky's newest book, it's better than any other book on that list, and it gives much more information that's easy to apply, although there are some mistakes and typos. He's apparently working on a new version that'll hopefully be out this year.

[vince89]

Ive ordered Eric Cressey's new book Maximum Strength, when it arrives I'll do a little review on it.

[Brad Morris]

I brought several books about 18 months ago one of them was supertraining, up until last week I had used it as areference book rather than read it cover to cover.

But after a few conversations with Eza, I decided to read it from begginning to end. So far I am about 125 pages into it and it great..... it is however heavy reading, and at 492 pages is not a short book.

"Supertraining" the original book was co authored by Dr Yuri Verkhoshansky, I have a limited edition english translation of his recently released book "Special Strength Training" which is also a very good read.

I intend to reread that once I have finished Supertraining, then I have three books that I intend to read after that. Fundamentals of Special Strength Training In Sport by Vekhoshansky, Programming and Organisation Of Training by Verkhoshansky, and finally A System of Multi Year Training by Medvedyev. I have to admit that Verkhoshansky and Siff would be my favourite authors on special strength training.

My intention is to further enhance my training knowledge and with that knowledge use it to design a better training program that is specific to my individual strengths and weaknesses.

[Mark Limbaga]

my suggestions

The strongest Shall survive
Muscle Logic
Starting Strength
Facts and Fallacies of Fitness

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Does "Special Strength Training: A Practical Manual for Coaches" By Vekhoshansky explain the training "blocks" like the ones in your article EZA, and the ones people talk about on his forum? That is what I am interested in learning more about.

Does Zatsiorsky talk about these "blocks" in his book, "Science and Practice of Strength Training"? What does he focus on in this book?


Prof. Verkhoshansy's Forum

Here is a powerlifting program, using the "blocks", someone designed that Verkhoshansky seemed to appreciate. Might be interesting to you guys.

[Donut62]

If you are interested in Block Periodization I believe Dr. Issurin has a new book on it.

[Vedic]

Anything by Verkhoshansky is outstanding. Even if you don't buy his books, there is a plethra of information on his website. I downloaded a lot from there, and still haven't gone through all of it. His principles are what my workouts are designed around for my try out