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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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Mark Rippetoe
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 12
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Powerlifter
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Stones
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Graven
Squat
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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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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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The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar
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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.
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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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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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There is no such thing as firming and toning. There is only stronger and weaker.
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If you are so inflamed that you can't train, and ibuprofen and fish oil help with inflammation, maybe you'd better take the ibuprofen and fish oil.
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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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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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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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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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If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.
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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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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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What we're trying to do is get things fixed, not allow them to stay broke.
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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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