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starfish&coffee
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FWIW the bloke who put together stronglifts is a total bellend. Its all ripped off older ideas and layed out in a way that doesn't work that well. It had more problems in the beginning, when said bellend used to have demo videos but performed the lifts wrong in his videos. Giving thousands of upstarts the same flaws on the squat.
He was a total egomaniacal nazi on his forum and eventually switched to an all paying/self glorifying setup.
You can have a useful strength routine without barbells, just that bars let you do barbell squats, and barbell deadlifts, which are exercises that cannot be matched in the way they use your body.
If you want to do something like stronglifts, but 'right' - I urge you to purchase the books Starting Strength & Practical Programming by Mark Rippetoe. Its a very simple concept but Rip explains it very well.
If you want to explore training with things that aren't barbells, I recommend looking at the work of Dan John & Pavel Tsatsouline.
Also, unless you actually have a attraction to lifting weights specifically, I would thoroughly recommend using your own body to challenge & develop what your own body can do. ie; Gymnastics/Acrobatics, Martial Arts & Bodyweight Exercise.