From the Archives: Barbell Training is Big Medicine

We run very important articles and essays here on StartingStrength.com, most of them worth repeating. So in case you missed this the first time through, or if you haven’t read it recently, we present again ... Barbell Training is Big Medicine by Jonathon Sullivan MD, PhD “[A]t present there is absolutely no solid evidence that strength training—or any other exercise or dietary program—will substantially prolong our life spans. But the preponderance of the scientific evidence, flawed as it is, strongly indicates that we can change the trajectory of decline. We can recover functional years that would otherwise have been lost.” Read More var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};