55 Quotes by 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.

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

There is no substitute for milk. Sorry.

Bodybuilding 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 degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd.

Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.

Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they’ve ’exercised.

There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level ofmuscular stimulation and growththan the correctly performed full squat.

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

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