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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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Mark Rippetoe
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 12
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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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If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.
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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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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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There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level ofmuscular stimulation and growththan the correctly performed full squat.
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History tells us what works in the gym, and everything else walks down the road with a carrot in its ass.
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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-range-of-m otion exercise known as the squat is the single most useful exercise in the weight room, and our most valuable tool for building strength, power, and size.
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Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd
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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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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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Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.
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Your ideal body weight as an ectomorph at 6' 0 will be 214.378 lbs. There. Happy? And if you lose or gain a pound, I will have you killed. It is important to be ideal.
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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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What we're trying to do is get things fixed, not allow them to stay broke.
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I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.
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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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A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster.
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There is no such thing as firming and toning. There is only stronger and weaker.
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