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.
Stronger people are harder to kill.
An adult male weighs at least 200 pounds.
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.
I welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice!
You don’t get big and strong from lifting weights – you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights.
The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch.
I like musicianship, and it’s quite lacking in most modern popular music. You’re always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov’t Mule, or Tower of Power.
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.
Trust me, if you do an honest 20 rep program, at some point Jesus will talk to you. On the last day of the program, he asked if he could work in.
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.
But a hot gym is where most of us have trained before. Learn to deal with it: more water, more minerals, bigger balls.
Women who do look like men have taken some rather drastic steps in that direction that have little to do with their exercise program.
Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.
Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they’ve ’exercised.
I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.
Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.
Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.
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.