Proper weight lifting techniques are invaluable! You can make progress without proper techniques, but you'll eventually injure yourself, have muscle imbalances, and more!


The correct weightlifting techniques will help you to build more muscle and become stronger at a much faster rate. Learn how to use the correct muscles in your body to lift the weight on all of the best exercises.


Further down this page, you will find links to other pages on this site that discuss some secret weight lifting techniques that most people know nothing about! You've got to read those...

Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe
Coach Rippetoe is a USA Weightlifting Senior Coach

Starting Strength is an exercise instructional book written by Mark Rippetoe that goes into great detail on all of the best compound weightlifting exercises. This book is an absolute must for all weight lifters.

Proper Weight Lifting Techniques are taught in Starting Strength!

You will be absolutely amazed at the information contained in this book. You can't get this type of information anywhere. I've been lifting weights for a long time, and I was amazed and used information in the book to get even stronger!


Just to give you an intro of what you'll get from this book, I've provided you with some videos from Mark Rippetoe on performing the Squat, Deadlift, Bench Press, and Overhead Press correctly. You can find links to each exercise page below with videos and more.

Why is it so important to learn how to do the compound exercises correctly? You will learn how to use the correct muscles for each exercise and build those muscles and make them stronger.


You will make faster progress because you will be using the muscles correctly. You will not have to take breaks from weightlifting because you injured yourself from improper form. You will never injure your lower back from incorrect form!

I've provided you with a page on each of the best weightlifting exercises. Check all of them out. You'll find videos on how to perform each exercise correctly and more.


It's very important to take the videos in combination with the information you get in the book. The book gives detailed pictures and an explanation on every aspect of the exercises below.

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The book gives you detailed information on many more exercises too! You can learn about rack pulls, shrugs, box squats, front squats, partial movements, bench press variations, deadlift variations, and more. As I've said before, the book is amazing.


Here's a video of Coach Mark Rippetoe teaching proper breathing techniques. This weight lifting technique alone will instantly help you to lift more weight!

I hope you realize that the information contained in Starting Strength is vital to your success. I push this book so hard because it's worth 10 times its weight in gold! Learn correct weight lifting techniques and be rewarded for a lifetime.