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Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.

Mark Rippetoe

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Mark Rippetoe
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 12
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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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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 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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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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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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You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.
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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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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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Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses.
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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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What we're trying to do is get things fixed, not allow them to stay broke.
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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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Exercise is not a thing we do to fix a problem - it is a thing we must do anyway, a thing without which there will always be problems
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Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.
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There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.
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