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There is no such thing as firming and toning. There is only stronger and weaker.

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Mark Rippetoe
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 12
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Powerlifter
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Toning
Weaker
Stronger
Thing

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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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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 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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If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.
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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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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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The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.
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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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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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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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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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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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Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd
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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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I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.
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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 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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I was driving home the other night, listening to the radio, and the guy filling in for Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM was talking to some other guy about Nazis, UFOs, the Kennedy Assassination, time travel, and George Bush, and how it all relates to OneWorldGovernment. This, of course, made me think about barbell training.
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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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