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