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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

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Mark Rippetoe
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 12
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