After trying several fitness fads, 'Men's Journal' contributing editor finds 'Starting Strength' to be the most effective
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/opinion/sunday/fitness-crazed.html?src=me&ref=general
"I repeated this basic pattern, alternating the dead lift with the power clean, for a year, adding a little more weight to the bar in every lift, during every session. Now for the astonishing part: It worked. I was able to lift a tiny bit more every single time, like magic — or, rather, like Milo of Croton, the ancient Greek wrestler who is said to have lifted a newborn calf and then lifted it every day thereafter, as it grew, until Milo carried a full-grown bull."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/opinion/sunday/fitness-crazed.html?src=me&ref=general
"I repeated this basic pattern, alternating the dead lift with the power clean, for a year, adding a little more weight to the bar in every lift, during every session. Now for the astonishing part: It worked. I was able to lift a tiny bit more every single time, like magic — or, rather, like Milo of Croton, the ancient Greek wrestler who is said to have lifted a newborn calf and then lifted it every day thereafter, as it grew, until Milo carried a full-grown bull."
