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.
I don’t even like Greg Glassman. I don’t have a cult like allegiance to the guy. I really don’t like him. He’s too hard to get on the phone and he doesn’t drink my kind of scotch.
There is no such thing as “firming and toning.” There is only stronger and weaker.
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.
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.
There is no substitute for milk. Sorry.
If 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 occur, you don’t get to call it training. It’s just exercise.
What we’re trying to do is get things fixed, not allow them to stay broke.