The idea came from people like Rippetoe, Starr, about a million others. I don't necesarily agree with setups being quite as bare-bones as some of these guys although I wouldn't get into the arugment of how much compound versus isolations.
Andrew, didn't you just quote Rippetoe in another thread? He's the definition of barebones.
The reason I made that comment was to illustrate how some of these arguments get started unecessarily. Instead of responding to anything specifically said in this thread I brough up an off-hand comment AC made in another thread. In other word, I find that many times people are not responding to what people say specifically but to what said comments SEEMS to illustrate about their philosophy in general. I.E. what AC said about Rip in another thread has nothing much to do with this one (just an example, AC) and saying "concentrate" on big compounds" does not have to be taken as a manifesto of someone's overall perspective.
Here is the thread I was thinking of.
http://www.bodybuilding.net/training...read-9185.html
I'm including that so you know I see where you're coming from, in general, AC.