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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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Mark Rippetoe
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 12
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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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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 can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.
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The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar
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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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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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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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I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.
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Start training yourself. You don't have to have been an elite lifter to be a good coach - I sure as hell wasn't. But you have to at least have been under the bar enough to know why wedon't look up at the bleeding ceiling when we squat!
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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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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 such thing as firming and toning. There is only stronger and weaker.
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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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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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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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Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.
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The full squat is a perfectly natural position for the leg to occupy. That's why there is a joint in the middle of it, and why humans have been occupying this position, both unloaded and loaded, for millions of years. Much longer, in fact, than quasi-intellect ual morons have been telling us that it's 'bad' for the knees.
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If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.
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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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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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