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.
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.
What we’re trying to do is get things fixed, not allow them to stay broke.
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.
Your muscles cannot get “longer” without some rather radical orthopedic surgery.
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.
The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.
The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar.
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.
I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.
There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level ofmuscular stimulation and growththan the correctly performed full squat.
History tells us what works in the gym, and everything else walks down the road with a carrot in its ass.
Opinions are like phasers – everybody ought to have one.
I recommend that you change colleges.
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!