Mark Rippetoe Quotes

but the reality of millions of years of adaptation to a ruggedly physical existence will not just go away because desks were invented.

There is no substitute for milk. Sorry.

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.

Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.

Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.

You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.

There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.

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

Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.

Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.

Your muscles cannot get "longer" without some rather radical orthopedic surgery.

The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch

Stronger people are harder to kill

Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.

I recommend that you change colleges.

I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.

There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.

If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.

Women who do look like men have taken some rather drastic steps in that direction that have little to do with their exercise program.

There is no such thing as "firming and toning." There is only stronger and weaker.

You don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights

I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.

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

The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.

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

The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar

Opinions are like phasers - everybody ought to have one.

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.

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

History tells us what works in the gym, and everything else walks down the road with a carrot in its ass.

There is never an absolute answer to everything, except of course that you have to do your squats.

There is no easy way to do a deadlift - not involving actually picking up the bar - which explains their lack of popularity in gyms around the world.

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

What we're trying to do is get things fixed, not allow them to stay broke.