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Books like Starting Strength
The best books like Starting Strength are Bigger Leaner Stronger, The 4-Hour Body, and Roar. Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe is about strength training, barbell training, movement mechanics. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Bigger Leaner Stronger
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Michael Matthews · Health
Bigger Leaner Stronger is Michael Matthews's practical guide to building a lean, muscular physique through evidence-based strength training and flexible dieting.
Both dig into strength training.
Read the summary → - The 4-Hour Body
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Timothy Ferriss · Health
The 4-Hour Body is Timothy Ferriss's account of a decade of self-experimentation with his own body — tracking every measurable variable of diet, training, sleep, and recovery to find the minimum effective dose of each intervention that produces maximum results.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Roar
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Stacy Sims · Health
Roar is exercise physiologist Stacy Sims's argument that women are not small men, and that decades of sports science research conducted primarily on male subjects has produced nutrition and training advice that is systematically wrong for women.
A kindred health read.
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- Exercised
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Daniel Lieberman · Health
Exercised is Daniel Lieberman's follow-up to The Story of the Human Body, applying the same evolutionary lens specifically to physical activity — what it is, why we resist it, and which kinds produce which benefits.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - 80/20 Running
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Matt Fitzgerald · Health
80/20 Running is Matt Fitzgerald's evidence-based argument that the most common mistake recreational runners make is training too hard, too often.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Anatomy of an Epidemic
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Robert Whitaker · Health
Anatomy of an Epidemic is Robert Whitaker's investigation into a paradox: as the use of psychiatric medication in the United States has increased dramatically over the past half-century, the number of people on disability due to mental illness has risen in parallel.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Anatomy of the Spirit
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Caroline Myss · Health
Anatomy of the Spirit is Caroline Myss's attempt to synthesize three major spiritual traditions — the Hindu chakra system, the Christian sacraments, and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life — into a unified model of human energy anatomy.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Anticancer: A New Way of Life
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David Servan-Schreiber · Health
Anticancer is David Servan-Schreiber's account of his own experience with brain cancer, diagnosed when he was thirty-one, and what he learned over fifteen years about the lifestyle and environmental factors that feed or suppress tumor growth.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Bad Pharma
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Ben Goldacre · Health
Bad Pharma is Ben Goldacre's sustained indictment of the pharmaceutical industry's manipulation of clinical trial evidence, and of the regulatory and academic institutions that have failed to stop it.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande · Health
Being Mortal is Atul Gawande's investigation into why modern medicine is so bad at helping people die well.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Better
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Atul Gawande · Health
Better is Atul Gawande's examination of what it means to perform well in medicine, a field where the stakes are as high as they get and where the gap between ordinary and excellent care routinely determines who lives and who dies.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Born to Run
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Christopher McDougall · Health
Born to Run begins as a personal injury investigation.
A kindred health read.
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Books like Starting Strength: quick answers
What are the best books like Starting Strength?
The best books like Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe are Bigger Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews, The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss, Roar by Stacy Sims, Exercised by Daniel Lieberman, 80/20 Running by Matt Fitzgerald, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Starting Strength, such as strength training, barbell training, movement mechanics.
What should I read after Starting Strength?
A natural next read after Starting Strength is Bigger Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews. Both dig into strength training. Other strong choices are The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss, Roar by Stacy Sims, Exercised by Daniel Lieberman.
What books are similar to Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe?
Starting Strength centers on strength training, barbell training, movement mechanics. Books with a similar feel include Bigger Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews, The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss, Roar by Stacy Sims, Exercised by Daniel Lieberman, 80/20 Running by Matt Fitzgerald, Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
