What is the Strenght Journal?

Why another strength blog?

We were looking for a new training system and stumbled upon "Starting Strength" by Mark Rippetoe (He might not look like it, but he is one beast of a coach. And actually the first one to give back his NSCA certificate in 2009). A friend of us tried it and got huge, so we told ourselves we should give it a try.

Now why a blog about it?

Actually, when looking for serious training logs or blogs, you're not able to find more than some starting stats and periodical posts about progress. And none of the existing posts in some forums provide knowledge around strength training, nutrition and general bullshit out of our lives.

So who are we?

We are Amin and Jacob, two young stallions trying to get stronger:

Amin: 

Age: 22 Years

Weight: 80 kg (177 lbs)

Height: 182 cm (6')

Jacob:

Age: 25 Years

Weight: 78 kg (172 lbs)

Height: 186 cm (6' 1")

We have some years of experience in strength training and fitness, but never really did something as serious as "starting strength". We ran around the gym doing some curls and some squats and eventually started with Jim Wendler's 531 program.

We then did that for about 3 months or so and actually got stronger. But after reading into Starting Strength and general powerlifting blogs and forums, we came to the conclusion, that we kind of fucked up in our planning.

Why would we do a percentage based program when we didn't even build a good enough strength base in the first place? Although 531 was maybe not the dumbest of choices we could make, a program like starting strength makes more sense for the state of strength and power we are currently at.

At what rate will our content be put out?

2+ posts per week.

We will make one weekly post about our training and the progress we made in this week, how we felt while doing it, how we feel about progressing and what we want to do better or change up.

The other post will be about nutrition related topics, like what we ate, what recipes we like, etc.

From time to time, we will also try to get out more content. Our next post (spoiler allert) will be about "Starting Strength" in general. We want to make sure everyone knows what we are going to do and what the whole training philosophy is about.

What is our goal?

We actually have two main goals:

1.) Getting as strong as we possibly can

2.) Provide knowledge, experience and motivation

This is why we created this blog. We want to share our experience we get by doing this program, we want to share the knowledge we acquire on our journey and try to motivate people to also start moving their asses to the gym and help them on their journey to their strongest selves.

We hope to provide some qualtiy content and give you a little insight to our lives and our training.

CHEERS 

Amin and Jacob