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Guys, this is something someone authored based loosely on a Bill Starr Template. It is not a schedule written out by Starr himself. He prob wouldn't even have had deadlifts and rows in there anyway, preferring powercleans, high pulls, chins....

There is some bodyduilderish stuff in there and imo some superfluous stuff for an abslute beginner. Whether it's too much would depend on the individual. The alternating weeks isn't something I've read him talking about. The idea was to progress on A LIFT week in and week out pretty much by only adding 5 pounds to it. Even if it was easy. If you can't do it you hold it over. Perhaps someone whose read the book can speak on what Starr says, but to me an ACTUAL NOVICE has NO NEED to alternate lifts in this way. And the list of alternate back exercises intermixes lower back and upper back not to mention treating the deads as just another alternate back movement instead of a core movement.

My criticisms would be: Deadlift OR Bent Over Rows makes no sense. One is not a replacement for the other. Monday should be either power cleans or rows and take out the deadlift or GM variation on Wednesday and use deadlfits there. Look at what Odom posted.

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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.

I personally believe that you can't progress everybody by 5 pounds a week. Some people might progress quicker, others might have trouble.

I also think that exercises using stabillizer muscles should be kept to a minimum, For example, for the back I'd simply have them work with cable rows and lat pulldowns. Free weights is a progression.

You can't throw an absolute beginner in the deep end, that's how injuries occour.

I would say the opposite. Why put them on the cable machines and build muscle...only to have them hop onto the barbell, load it up sice theyre strong on the cable machines now, and have no stability. To me that would be more dangerous.

I would advocate using Dumbbells, then barbells, then machines....if you're talking about a complete noobie

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