Alright, good, Dark.

Keep in mind that if Rippetoes doesn't seem to be right for you you can do a slightly different program. A more concervative one, for instane. Something more like a Beyond Brawn beginner program. You do not have to keep trying the same thing over and over in the face of failure. But if you are reading Starting Strenghth that should help you understand the goals. And you can make changes to it if need be after a bit.

The good news, after all this, is that these "functional" movements, if you keep the movement quality good, will have form follow them. In other words all those little issues you have with individual muscles will start to iron themselves out. But you have to be paitent. You set short term goals but a short term goal for a beginner might be 3 months. Then you set another. And anther. All of those used to get to a more nebulous future long term goal which you have to have in the back of your mind.

Once you get a very good strength base, if you still have issues with "shape" it will be much more easy to iron those out with some well chosen exercises or variations.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.