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Getbig Bodybuilding Boards => History - Stories - and Memories => Topic started by: funk51 on April 08, 2015, 10:55:53 AM
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:'( :'( :'( :'( it has been reported that bill starr has died.
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Eternal rest grant unto him, may he rest in peace. He gave much to the weight lifting community.
Big Pat
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not into powerlifting but he contributed some very fundamental reading/information for people in this field of lifting...Rip
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1938-2015=77 years old.
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RIP....Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS) was Starr's basic training philosophy, and a good one. Heavy compound movements, meant to improve most everyone's basic strength, with the focus on athletes. Short and to the point workouts always seem the correct path for power and increasing muscle size. Old school stuff, at it's best.
We passed around his early training book, when teenagers, until the pages were falling apart and the original cover was just a memory...,sort of like a training bible to all us future jocks.
Again...RIP Bill Starr.
Just to note: another book passed around later in my training life was "Power Factor Training" (Little & Sisco). Certainly giving a whole new approach to heavier compound lifting. Surprising how much weight, with this partial style training, just about anyone could use. Worked like magic for some, me included.
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He gave common sense answers to lifting when everyone is trying to make it more complicated than it needs to be. He was a pioneer being one of the first NFL strength coaches. He rightly emphasized power exercises like the power clean for football players. Now every team in the NFL has a strength coach including Division one teams.
I remember reading about a guy that went to the great trainer Bill Starr for training advice in the gym. He was so disappointed in that he thought he would learn some secret revelations about training that would be the key to miraculous gains. Instead he got train hard in fundamental lifts and few comments about form. Starr was way ahead of his time.