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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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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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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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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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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 you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.
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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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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 deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.
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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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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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Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.
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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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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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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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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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But a hot gym is where most of us have trained before. Learn to deal with it: more water, more minerals, bigger balls.
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There is no substitute for milk. Sorry.
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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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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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What we're trying to do is get things fixed, not allow them to stay broke.
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