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

There is no substitute for milk. Sorry. — Mark Rippetoe

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. — Mark Rippetoe

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling. — Mark Rippetoe

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

The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch — Mark Rippetoe

Stronger people are harder to kill — Mark Rippetoe

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

I recommend that you change colleges. — Mark Rippetoe

I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes. — Mark Rippetoe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar — Mark Rippetoe

Opinions are like phasers - everybody ought to have one. — Mark Rippetoe

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. — Mark Rippetoe

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 — Mark Rippetoe

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

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

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. — Mark Rippetoe

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

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