Rippetoe Strength Quotes & Sayings

I am of the opinion that anyone who can squat 400 lb below parallel without a suit or press200 overhead has a strong core. I am of the opinion that when a person increases their squat, theyhave increased their core strength. I am also of the opinion that if a person wants to strengthentheir core, they must make something quantifiably stronger. — Mark Rippetoe

There 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 bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat. — Mark Rippetoe

I have so much joy in my life. I love my husband and kids so much. So much love. I'm also more focused now on spending more time at home and in town instead of going on tour. Because of that nesting, I find that I'm even more into writing and creating. — Lisa Loeb

It's always better to live with good stuff than it is to live without someone you wanna give all your good stuff to. — Sean Patrick Flanery

Squatting' in a Smith machine is an oxymoron. A Smith machine is not a squat rack, no matter what the girls at the front desk tell you. A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster. Sorry. There is a gigantic difference between a machine that makes the bar path vertical for you and a squat that is executed correctly enough to have a vertical bar path. The job of keeping the bar path vertical should be done by the muscles, skeleton, and nervous system, not by grease fittings, rails, and floor bolts. — Mark Rippetoe

Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordination, and better everything else. This is why, all other things being equal, the stronger athlete is the better athlete. — Mark Rippetoe

An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking ... the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself left me with repeated gasps of recognition about the human condition. I believe it will be a classic. — Dennis Covington

I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work. — Ben Stiller

Development is maintenance. — Brian Marick

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. — Mark Rippetoe

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. — Mark Rippetoe

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

Through social media, young people are constantly being pinged about a whole slew of potentially better matches or social activities. — Robin Marantz Henig

I identify who I am by who I am. — Maggie Wilderotter

I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness. — Helen Mirren

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. — Mark Rippetoe

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama. — Robert G. Ingersoll

For some years now, there has been proof that the devastating effects of the traumatization of children take their inevitable tollon society
a fact that we are still forbidden to recognize. This knowledge concerns every single one of us, and
if disseminated widely enough
should lead to fundamental changes in society; above all, to a halt in the blind escalation of violence. — Alice Miller

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

It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion. — Leo Tolstoy