"If a program of physical activity isn't designed……" — Mark Rippetoe
"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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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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More Activity Quotes
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one of 1,646 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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