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Trust me, if you do an honest 20 rep program, at some point Jesus will talk to you. On the last day of the program, he asked if he could work in.

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Mark Rippetoe
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 12
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If a program of physical activity isn't designed to get you stronger or faster or better conditioned by producing a specific stress to which a specific desirable adaptation can occur, you don't get to call it training. It's just exercise.
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But a hot gym is where most of us have trained before. Learn to deal with it: more water, more minerals, bigger balls.
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Women who do look like men have taken some rather drastic steps in that direction that have little to do with their exercise program.
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Most of the problems with the bodies and minds of the folks occupying the current culture involve an unwillingness to do anything hard, or anything that they'd rather not do. I applaud your resolve, and I welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice.
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What we're trying to do is get things fixed, not allow them to stay broke.
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Since the trainee is both inefficient and unadapted, only a few basic exercises should be used, and they should be repeated frequently to establish the basic motor pathways and basic strength.
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There is no such thing as firming and toning. There is only stronger and weaker.
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You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.
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Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.
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You don’t get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad … it’s incumbent upon you, if you’re going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing
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Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses.
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You guys that worry about eating clean are actually merely bodybuilders looking for justification for your obsession with abs. You cannot get big and strong on 3000 kcal/day. And you cannot eat 7000/day and eat perfectly “clean”.
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The full squat is a perfectly natural position for the leg to occupy. That's why there is a joint in the middle of it, and why humans have been occupying this position, both unloaded and loaded, for millions of years. Much longer, in fact, than quasi-intellect ual morons have been telling us that it's 'bad' for the knees.
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Start training yourself. You don't have to have been an elite lifter to be a good coach - I sure as hell wasn't. But you have to at least have been under the bar enough to know why wedon't look up at the bleeding ceiling when we squat!
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Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they've ‘exercised.
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The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar
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A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.
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I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.
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I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.
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