Quotes by Mark Rippetoe

Mark Rippetoe

A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster.

Closets

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Squat

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 would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.

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Spiritual

Strong

Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses.

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Pay

Thrill

An adult male weighs at least 200 pounds

Adults

Males

Pounds

Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they’ve ‘exercised.

Facts

Pride

Watches

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.

Fun

Training

Waiting

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

Bodybuilding

Men

Vanity

But a hot gym is where most of us have trained before. Learn to deal with it: more water, more minerals, bigger balls.

Balls

Hot

Water

But then again, those who argue against squatting and deadlifting on the same day may just be pussies.

Arguing

May

Pussy

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

Exercise

Problem

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Quotes by Mark Rippetoe

Mark Rippetoe

A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster.

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 would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.

Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses.

An adult male weighs at least 200 pounds

Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they’ve ‘exercised.

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.

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

But a hot gym is where most of us have trained before. Learn to deal with it: more water, more minerals, bigger balls.

But then again, those who argue against squatting and deadlifting on the same day may just be pussies.

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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