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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
Mark Rippetoe
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Mark Rippetoe
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 12
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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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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 can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.
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Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.
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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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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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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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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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What we're trying to do is get things fixed, not allow them to stay broke.
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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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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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