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You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.

Mark Rippetoe

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Mark Rippetoe
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 12
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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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There is no substitute for milk. Sorry.
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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 recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.
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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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