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Mark Rippetoe
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 12
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If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.
Mark Rippetoe
I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.
Mark Rippetoe
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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You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.
Mark Rippetoe
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 deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.
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The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar
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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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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.
Mark Rippetoe
The BEST training program in the entire world will be a DISMAL FAILURE if people fail to hold up their end of the deal. The success of ANY training program is ultimately the trainee's responsibility.
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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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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.
Mark Rippetoe
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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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
Mark Rippetoe
Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.
Mark Rippetoe
There is no such thing as firming and toning. There is only stronger and weaker.
Mark Rippetoe
What we're trying to do is get things fixed, not allow them to stay broke.
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Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordination, and better everything else. This is why, all other things being equal, the stronger athlete is the better athlete.
Mark Rippetoe
Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.
Mark Rippetoe
Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses.
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