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Stronger people are harder to kill
I recommend that you change colleges.
There is no substitute for milk. Sorry.
An adult male weighs at least 200 pounds
The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar
I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.
The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch
Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.
Opinions are like phasers - everybody ought to have one.
If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.
Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.
Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.
What we're trying to do is get things fixed, not allow them to stay broke.
Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.
The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.
Your muscles cannot get "longer" without some rather radical orthopedic surgery.
There is no such thing as "firming and toning." There is only stronger and weaker.
There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.
I welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice!
There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.
Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses.
There is never an absolute answer to everything, except of course that you have to do your squats.
Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.
But then again, those who argue against squatting and deadlifting on the same day may just be pussies.
You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.
Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they've ‘exercised.
I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.
History tells us what works in the gym, and everything else walks down the road with a carrot in its ass.
You don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights
A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster.
But a hot gym is where most of us have trained before. Learn to deal with it: more water, more minerals, bigger balls.
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.
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
Women who do look like men have taken some rather drastic steps in that direction that have little to do with their exercise program.
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.
If you are so inflamed that you can't train, and ibuprofen and fish oil help with inflammation, maybe you'd better take the ibuprofen and fish oil.
If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not.
There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level ofmuscular stimulation and growththan the correctly performed full squat.
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 Mule, or Tower of Power.
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.
Your ideal body weight as an ectomorph at 6' 0" will be 214.378 lbs. There. Happy? And if you lose or gain a pound, I will have you killed. It is important to be ideal.
The full-range-of-m otion exercise known as the squat is the single most useful exercise in the weight room, and our most valuable tool for building strength, power, and size.
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 too hard to get on the phone and he doesn't drink my kind of scotch.
Since the trainee is both inefficient and unadapted, only a few basic exercises should be used, and they should be repeated frequently to establish the basic motor pathways and basic strength.
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.
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”.
I know that I'm an animal that displays bilateral symmetry. I understand that one side should be the mirror of the other, and that human perceptions of beauty are intimately associated with symmetry. For example, I am very handsome.
Start training yourself. You don't have to have been an elite lifter to be a good coach - I sure as hell wasn't. But you have to at least have been under the bar enough to know why wedon't look up at the bleeding ceiling when we squat!
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.
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.