Mark Rippetoe Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.”
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“There is never an absolute answer to everything, except of course that you have to do your squats.”
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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.”
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“The BEST training program in the entire world will be a DISMAL FAILURE if people fail to hold up their end of the deal. The success of ANY training program is ultimately the trainee's responsibility.”
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“If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.”
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“The full squat is a perfectly natural position for the leg to occupy. That's why there is a joint in the middle of it, and why humans have been occupying this position, both unloaded and loaded, for millions of years. Much longer, in fact, than quasi-intellect ual morons have been telling us that it's 'bad' for the knees.”
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“You don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights”
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“Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses.”
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“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 and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.”
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“Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.”
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“Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.”
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“On resting in between reps: It varies with the length of the set. 5s or fewer get a breath to reset. Longer sets might take 2 breaths. During the last few reps of a true 20RM squat, just do what Jesus tells you. 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, he asked if he could work in.”
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“You guys that worry about eating clean are actually merely bodybuilders looking for justification for your obsession with abs. You cannot get big and strong on 3000 kcal/day. And you cannot eat 7000/day and eat perfectly “clean”.”
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“I welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice!”
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“Only people willing to work to the point of discomfort on a regular basis using effective means to produce that discomfort will actually look like they have been other-than-comf ortable most of the time. You can thank the muscle magazines for these persistent misconceptions, along with the natural tendency of all normal humans to seek reasons to avoid hard physical exertion.”
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“Most of the problems with the bodies and minds of the folks occupying the current culture involve an unwillingness to do anything hard, or anything that they'd rather not do. I applaud your resolve, and I welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice.”
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“Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordination, and better everything else. This is why, all other things being equal, the stronger athlete is the better athlete.”
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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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“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 after you evaluate all the evidence and the logic.”
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“I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.”
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“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, he asked if he could work in.”
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“Exercise is not a thing we do to fix a problem - it is a thing we must do anyway, a thing without which there will always be problems”
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“Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.”
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“Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they've ‘exercised.”
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“The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch”
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“The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar”
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“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 pantyhose) does not constitute a legitimate use. And if you do insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.”
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“There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.”
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