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.

— Mark Rippetoe

Mark Rippetoe Quotes

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.

— Mark Rippetoe

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

— Mark Rippetoe

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.

— Mark Rippetoe

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

There is no substitute for milk. Sorry.

— Mark Rippetoe

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.

— Mark Rippetoe

I know that I’m an animal that displays bilateral symmetry. I understand that one side should be the mirror of the other, and that human perceptions of beauty are intimately associated with symmetry. For example, I am very handsome.

— Mark Rippetoe

What we’re trying to do is get things fixed, not allow them to stay broke.

— Mark Rippetoe

If you are so inflamed that you can’t train, and ibuprofen and fish oil help with inflammation, maybe you’d better take the ibuprofen and fish oil.

— Mark Rippetoe

Your muscles cannot get “longer” without some rather radical orthopedic surgery.

— Mark Rippetoe

Your ideal body weight as an ectomorph at 6? 0" will be 214.378 lbs. There. Happy? And if you lose or gain a pound, I will have you killed. It is important to be ideal.

— Mark Rippetoe

The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.

— Mark Rippetoe

The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar.

— Mark Rippetoe

If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not.

— Mark Rippetoe

I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.

— Mark Rippetoe

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

— Mark Rippetoe

History tells us what works in the gym, and everything else walks down the road with a carrot in its ass.

— Mark Rippetoe

Opinions are like phasers – everybody ought to have one.

— Mark Rippetoe

I recommend that you change colleges.

— Mark Rippetoe

Start training yourself. You don’t have to have been an elite lifter to be a good coach – I sure as hell wasn’t. But you have to at least have been under the bar enough to know why wedon’t look up at the bleeding ceiling when we squat!

— Mark Rippetoe
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