Mark Rippetoe

“Every barbell exercise that involves the feet on the floor and a barbell supported by the body will be in its best…

— Mark Rippetoe

Opinions are like phasers - everybody ought to have one.

— Mark Rippetoe

“myofibrillar hypertrophy, more actin, myosin, and other associated proteins are added to those already existing in the cell. More contractile elements within…

— Mark Rippetoe

Big arms are fun, and if their training doesn't interfere with the rest of the program, wait till everybody's gone, like I…

— Mark Rippetoe

Exercise is not a thing we do to fix a problem - it is a thing we must do anyway, a thing…

— Mark Rippetoe

Your muscles cannot get "longer" without some rather radical orthopedic surgery.

— Mark Rippetoe

An adult male weighs at least 200 pounds

— Mark Rippetoe

You don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights

— Mark Rippetoe

“If you insist on using a thumbless grip on the bench, you need to do it at home so that when the…

— Mark Rippetoe

I don't even like Greg Glassman. I don't have a cult like allegiance to the guy. I really don't like him. He's…

— Mark Rippetoe

Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance…

— Mark Rippetoe

The hang clean is unweighted and is of little use to watch, except that it shows a problem known as a Donkey…

— Mark Rippetoe

A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to…

— Mark Rippetoe

You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.

— Mark Rippetoe

If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of…

— Mark Rippetoe

I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.

— Mark Rippetoe

There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.

— Mark Rippetoe

I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't…

— Mark Rippetoe

The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.

— Mark Rippetoe

“Stance is a highly individual thing and will vary with hip width, hip ligament tightness, femur and tibia length and proportion, adductor…

— Mark Rippetoe

There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and…

— Mark Rippetoe

“but the reality of millions of years of adaptation to a ruggedly physical existence will not just go away because desks were…

— Mark Rippetoe

You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few…

— Mark Rippetoe

You don’t get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad ……

— Mark Rippetoe

The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch

— Mark Rippetoe