Mark Rippetoe

Rippetoe was born in Wichita Falls, Texas,{{cite podcast |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ-MAUz4eSI |title=Barbell Beast and Lifting Legend - Ep 020 w/ Mark Rippetoe |website=YouTube |publisher=Bulletproof Workshop |host=Gonzalez, Jeff |date=December 13, 2022 |time=3:14 |access-date=January 24, 2023 |quote=I'm from Wichita Falls...I was born there.}} the son of Charles and Judy Rippetoe.{{cite news |author= |date=April 21, 1996 |title=Rippetoe 50th |work=The Wichita Falls Times |page=11E}}Matt Reynolds, [https://www.scribd.com/doc/3483857/In-the-Trenches-An-Interview-With-Mark-Rippetoe-by-Matt-Reynolds In the Trenches - An Interview With Mark Rippetoe]. Charles, a former U.S. Army paratrooper who parachuted into Normandy in World War II, owned a diner in Wichita Falls.{{cite news |last=Gregg |first=Louise |date=April 1, 1984 |title=Wichitans Fare Well in Caravan Cafe Critique |work=The Wichita Falls Times |page=1E}}{{cite news |last=Gregg |first=Louise |date=November 1, 1984 |title=Career Changes Bring Smiles to Their Faces |work=The Wichita Falls Times |page=3D}}{{cite AV media |people=Rippetoe, Mark |date=November 20, 2020 |title=Mark Rippetoe Teaches You How to Make Chicken Fried Steak - Texas Cafe Classics |time=00:31 |language=English |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezF7x-D-8Q |access-date=December 24, 2022 |publisher=Starting Strength}} Rippetoe earned a Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum geology from Midwestern State University, where he met his mentor, weightlifter Bill Starr, in 1979. Rippetoe competed in powerlifting from 1979 to 1988, winning the 198-pound class at the Greater Texas Classic in 1981.{{cite news |author= |date=December 10, 1981 |title=Wichitans Win in Powerlifting |work=The Wichita Falls Times |page=6B |quote=Mark Rippetoe won first place at the 198-pound class...a total of 1514 (573 squat; 341 bench press and 600 deadlift.)}}

Rippetoe bought Anderson's Gym in Wichita Falls in 1984, which he renamed the Wichita Falls Athletic Club. He used the WFAC to test and refine his barbell training program, culminating with the publishing of the first edition of Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, co-authored with Lon Kilgore, in 2005. The Starting Strength program focuses on building strength with compound lifts—the squat, deadlift, press, bench press, and power clean—and a limited number of assistance exercises, such as chinups.{{cite book |last1=Rippetoe |first1=Mark |last2=Bradford| first2=Stef |date=2011 |title=Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training |location=Wichita Falls, Texas |edition=3 |publisher=The Aasgaard Company |pages=7, 73, 97, 145, 177 |isbn=978-0-982-5227-3-8}} In collaboration with Glenn Pendlay and Kilgore, Rippetoe also established the USA Weightlifting Regional Development Center in Wichita Falls.

In 1985, Rippetoe was a part of the charter group of individuals to receive the Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist certification when it was first offered by the National Strength and Conditioning Association. He formally relinquished the credential in 2009.{{cite book|title=Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training|last=Rippetoe|first=Mark|year=2011|publisher=Aasgard Company|edition=3rd|isbn=978-0-9825227-3-8|pages=347}} Rippetoe was also formerly associated with the CrossFit community as a subject-matter expert in barbell training.Myles Kantor, [http://www.elitefts.com/documents/crossfit_total.htm A New Sport of Strength: An Interview with Mark Rippetoe on the CrossFit Total] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120035815/http://www.elitefts.com/documents/crossfit_total.htm |date=November 20, 2011 }}, 2007. He authored many training articles for the CrossFit Journal and created, with Lon Kilgore, the Basic Barbell Certification course, which they conducted from 2006 to 2009.{{Cite web|url=http://startingstrength.com/index.php/site/introduction|title=Starting Strength|website=Starting Strength}}Joey, CCT, [http://library.crossfit.com/free/pdf/61_07_Basically_Barbells.pdf Basically Barbells: The CrossFit Basic Barbell Certification Seminar], 2006. After he ended his formal association with CrossFit in 2009, he expanded this course into a three-day Starting Strength Seminar produced through the Aasgaard Company.The Aasgard Company, [http://aasgaardco.com/store/store.php?crn=212 Starting Strength Seminars]{{Cite web|url=https://www.t-nation.com/training/crossfit-the-good-bad-and-the-ugly|title=CrossFit: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly|first=Mark Rippetoe, T.|last=Nation|website=T NATION|date=December 2, 2013 }}

Beginning in 2018, the Aasgaard Company established a national franchise gym chain of Starting Strength branded gyms which feature the use of basic barbell equipment and the Starting Strength method.{{cite web |url=https://startingstrength.com/article/100-starting-strength-gyms-in-5-years |title=100 Starting Strength Gyms in 5 Years |last=Rippetoe |first=Mark |date=October 24, 2018 |website=Starting Strength |publisher=The Aasgard Company |access-date=January 25, 2023}}

Rippetoe has authored several books, peer-reviewed articles, online and DVD instructional videos, and internet posts concerned with strength training.

• Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training (editions 1, 2, 3)
• Practical Programming for Strength Training (editions 1, 2, 3){{cite book

|title=Practical Programming for Strength Training

|last=Rippetoe

|first=Mark

|year=2009

|publisher=Aasgard Company

|edition=2nd

|isbn=978-0-9825227-0-7

|pages=204

}}

• Strong Enough? Thoughts on Thirty Years of Barbell Training{{cite book

|title=Strong Enough? Thoughts on Thirty Years of Barbell Training

|last=Rippetoe

|first=Mark

|year=2007

|publisher=Aasgard Company

|isbn=978-0-9768054-4-1

|pages=204

}}

• Mean Ol’ Mr. Gravity{{cite book

|title=Mean Ol' Mr. Gravity

|last=Rippetoe

|first=Mark

|year=2009

|edition=1st

|publisher=Aasgard Company

|isbn=978-0-9825227-1-4

|pages=364

}}

• Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training{{cite video

|last=Rippetoe

|first=Mark

|date=February 25, 2009

|title=Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training

|url=https://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-Basic-Barbell-Training/dp/B001U9FDP2/ref=sr_1_1

|medium=DVD

|publisher=Aasgard Company}}

• "Strength and conditioning for fencing", Strength and Conditioning Journal{{cite journal

|journal=Strength and Conditioning Journal

|first=Mark

|last=Rippetoe

|title=Strength and conditioning for fencing

|date=April 2000

|volume=22

|issue=2

|at=42|doi=10.1519/00126548-200004000-00013

|doi-access=free

}}

• "Let's Learn How to Coach the Squat", Strength and Conditioning Journal{{cite journal|

journal=Strength and Conditioning Journal

|first=Mark

|last=Rippetoe

|title=Let's Learn How to Coach the Squat

|url=http://journals.lww.com/nsca-scj/Citation/2001/06000/Let_s_Learn_How_to_Coach_the_Squat.2.aspx

|date=June 2001

|volume=23

|issue=3

|at=11}}

• "Redefining Fitness for Health and Fitness Professionals", Journal of Exercise Physiology{{cite journal

|journal = Journal of Exercise Physiology

|first = Mark

|last = Rippetoe

|title = Redefining Fitness for Health and Fitness Professionals

|volume = 10

|issue = 2

|date = April 2007

|at = 34

|author2 = Lon Kilgore

|url = http://faculty.css.edu/tboone2/asep/JLKilgoreJEPonlineApril2007.doc

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110815130902/http://faculty.css.edu/tboone2/asep/JLKilgoreJEPonlineApril2007.doc

|archive-date = August 15, 2011

}}

• "Going Deep", CrossFit Journal{{cite journal

|journal=CrossFit Journal

|first=Mark

|last=Rippetoe

|title=Going Deep

|url=http://journal.crossfit.com/2006/09/going-deep-by-mark-rippetoe-se.tpl

|date=September 2006}}

{{Reflist}}

• Rob Sachs, [https://www.npr.org/blogs/wwrd/2009/01/what_would_rob_do_to_lose_10_p.html What Would Rob Do to Lose 10 Pounds in 2009?], 2009. NPR interview with Mark Rippetoe.
• Matt Reynolds, [https://www.scribd.com/doc/3483857/In-the-Trenches-An-Interview-With-Mark-Rippetoe-by-Matt-Reynolds In the Trenches - An Interview With Mark Rippetoe]
• Myles Kantor, [https://web.archive.org/web/20111205033613/http://www.elitefts.com/documents/deeper_into_deadlift.htm Going Deeper into the Deadlift with Mark Rippetoe]. Interview.
• Charles Staley, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120819113952/http://staleytraining.com/store/interviews-and-audios/masterminds-volume2.htm Mark Rippetoe: Starting Strength], [https://web.archive.org/web/20120426002432/http://www.staleytraining.com/media/rippetoe.mp3 mp3], 2008. Audio interview with Mark Rippetoe.
• Chris Colucci, [https://archive.today/20130203210137/http://www.t-nation.com/portal_includes/articles/2008/08-146-training.html Starting Strength: An Interview with Mark Rippetoe], 2009. T-nation interview with Mark Rippetoe.
• Reddit, [https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/n13d8/i_am_mark_rippetoe_author_of_starting_strength/ I am Mark Rippetoe, author of Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training. Ask Me Anything.], 2011.

• Charles Poliquin, [http://www.charlespoliquin.com/Blog/tabid/130/EntryId/396/Five-Valuable-Strength-Lessons-From-Mark-Rippetoe.aspx Five Valuable Strength Lessons From Mark Rippetoe], 2011.

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