Mark RippetoeThere is never an absolute answer to everything, except of course that you have to do your squats.371Reading
Mark RippetoeThe 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 train… ▶373Humanity
Mark RippetoeIf 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 oc… ▶332Politics
Mark RippetoeStronger people are harder to kill354Humanity
Mark RippetoeI can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.311Sadness
Mark RippetoeThere are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.379Truth
Mark RippetoeFor young males that weigh between 150-200 lbs., deadlifts can move up 15-20 lbs. per workout, squats 10-15 lbs., with continued steady progress for 3-4 weeks before slowing down … ▶358Death
Mark RippetoeExercise 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 problems326Truth
Mark RippetoeI welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice!3510Humanity
Mark RippetoeA 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. I… ▶283HumanityReadingTruth
Mark RippetoeThe 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 unloa… ▶3310HumanityTruth
Mark RippetoeThe 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.241Politics
Mark RippetoeYou don’t get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad … it’s incumbent upon you, if you’re going to make a criticism of som… ▶318Time
Mark RippetoeHumans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.309Humanity
Mark RippetoeStrength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordina… ▶244Politics
Mark RippetoeMediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.211Philosophy
Mark RippetoeOn 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 squa… ▶266Truth
Mark RippetoeBodybuilding 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 degr… ▶3010Sadness
Mark RippetoeThere is no substitute for milk. Sorry.266Life
Mark RippetoePoor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.244Politics
Mark RippetoeIf you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.201Love
Mark RippetoeAny idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they've ‘exercised.279ReadingTruth
Mark RippetoeYou don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights192Politics
Mark RippetoeYou 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.214Thought
Mark RippetoeThere 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 bo… ▶269Truth
Mark RippetoeSince 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 ba… ▶2610Love
Mark RippetoeYou 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 … ▶259Thought
Mark RippetoeHistory tells us what works in the gym, and everything else walks down the road with a carrot in its ass.194Sadness
Mark RippetoeThere is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level ofmuscular stimulation and growththan the correctly performed full squat.216Life
Mark RippetoeThere are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.172Reflection
