Mark Rippetoe Quotes

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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…
• Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.
• Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.
• You are right to be wary. There is much bullshit. Be wary of me too, because I may be wrong. Make up your own mind…
• There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.
• 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,…
• You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few important exercises, movements…
• 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…
• There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading…
• Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.
• Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.
• Big arms are fun, and if their training doesn't interfere with the rest of the program, wait till everybody's gone, like I do.
• An adult male weighs at least 200 pounds
• Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses.
• Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they've ‘exercised.
• I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.
• The only legitimate use for a glove is to cover an injury... A desire to prevent callus formation (possibly so as to not snag one's…
• I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.
• Opinions are like phasers - everybody ought to have one.
• If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the…

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