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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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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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Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.
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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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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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What we're trying to do is get things fixed, not allow them to stay broke.
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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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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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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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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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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 can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.
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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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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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Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses.
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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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