"Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their……" — Mark Rippetoe
"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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47 Quotes by Mark Rippetoe
Mark Rippetoe has 47 quotes on this site.
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Since the trainee is both inefficient and unadapted, only a few basic exercises should be used, and they should be…
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Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.
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Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.
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You are right to be wary. There is much bullshit. Be wary of me too, because I may be wrong.…
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There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.
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Trust me, if you do an honest 20 rep program, at some point Jesus will talk to you. On the…
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You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a…
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A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is…
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There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved…
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Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.
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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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Big arms are fun, and if their training doesn't interfere with the rest of the program, wait till everybody's gone,…
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