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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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Mark Rippetoe
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 12
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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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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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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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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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Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.
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There is no substitute for milk. Sorry.
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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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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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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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Women who do look like men have taken some rather drastic steps in that direction that have little to do with their exercise program.
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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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There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.
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I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.
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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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The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar
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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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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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The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.
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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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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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