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Rip: "Leg Pressing is masturbation."

Tuesday: "Oh, come on. Masturbation isn't that bad."

Rip: "Oh, I didn't say it was bad. But at least when I masturbate, I am not under the impression that I'm making anybody else cum but me."




"There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy."
Mark Rippetoe

in reference to steriods



"Here's a new one, posted today at Strength Mills. Someone asked about the likelihood of vascular injury from the Valsalva manouvre, from trying too heavy a deadlift:

Quote:
Deadlifts that are too heavy to pull generally don't take very long; the bar just kinda lays there. So if trying to move immovable objects was dangerous from the standpoint of stroke, the history of the human race would be littered with stupid people's corpses."



"But then again, those who argue against squatting and deadlifting on the same day may just be pussies."

"Now I also know that you're supposed to 'listen to your body', but my brain says 'don't be a pussy, and just lift the f***ing weights', and that's just what I do."

In regards to what is a respectable number of pull-ups:

"Well, I can do 16, and I'm 51 and I weigh 210. So you have to beat me or you're a pussy. And if you do beat me, you're probably using drugs."




"Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses." ~Mark Rippetoe (Strong Enough?)




 
Nice. I'd only seen the pull-ups one before. I like the steroids one though.
 
"The full squat is a perfectly natural position for the leg to occupy. That's why there's a joint in the middle of it, and why humans have been occupying this position, both unloaded and loaded, for millions of years. Much longer, in fact, than quasi-intellectual morons have been telling us that it's "bad" for the knees."





I was driving home the other night, listening to the radio, and the guy filling in for Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM was talking to some other guy about Nazis, UFOs, the Kennedy Assassination, time travel, and George Bush, and how it all relates to OneWorldGovernment. This, of course, made me think about barbell training.




A few:

(in reference to a bicyclist who seemed to be saying that riding was similar to squats since they both made your legs hurt):

Yes they both hurt, but so do burning your hand and burying your bulldog. The differences are actually quite significant.

The trouble with cyclists is that their training establishment keeps reinforcing the silly bull**** that all recreational athletes want to believe: at some point, all serious athletes go outside their sport-specific work to improve, and recreational athletes just want to play their sport and wear the clothes.
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Soy milk is essentially Coffee-Mate with laced with estrogen, and is best left to vegans and other socialist vegetarian types that can't bring themselves to eat the completely natural-for-humans flesh of our friends the Animals but who have no trouble with slaughtering trillions of our other friends the Plants and processing -- in gigantic factories run by multinational corporations with shareholders that eat meat themselves -- very selectively chosen components of their poor little bodies into gooey **** that humans have never had an opportunity to adapt to digesting. Why, eating such material, with its high levels of isoflavones, touted by gynecologists as tantamount to Estrogen Replacement Therapy (ERT), will make you grow boobs, and this will screw up the clean lines of this fine young man's Under Armor. I recommend against it.




The entire milk thread is great, here's a couple of excerpts:
"...I further suggest that you read beyond the literature that espouses the conventional wisdom and broaden your knowledge base, lest you incur the awful wrath of Drs. Kilgore and Bradford, neither of whom, fortunately, are MDs, but rather are familiar with research and have conducted it themselves. I find your reverence for the judgement of MDs rather quaint, and lest you interpret my reference to Dr. Mullis as a similar ad hominem pleading, I have actually reviewed the relevant arguments and have not relied on the expertise of others for my conclusions."

"...Are you seriously suggesting that a double-blind study is the only way to obtain information about the effects of a protocol? Does thirty years of careful anecdotal analysis not count? Have you done a double blind study to investigate the effects of substituting leg extensions/curls for squats? Do you think you really need to? Why do you already know you don't? And how would we do such studies? What would be your placebo substitute for milk and squats?"
 
That's all I could find. Every now and then crossfit has something on their forum worth reading like this lol
 
Pure gold. Thanks Vedic
 
Ive always like Rip's funny quotes. Havent heard all of these though.
 
Ive changed my mind. I mean dont get me wrong, he is still a douche but I find his sense of humor and "everybodys a pussy" attitude quite amusing
 
AkronZip said:
Ive changed my mind. I mean dont get me wrong, he is still a douche but I find his sense of humor and "everybodys a pussy" attitude quite amusing
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Did you seriously just call Mark Rippetoe a douche?

I mean, you're right, he's an asshole. But you damn well better LISTEN to him
 
I think his beginner programs are fantastic.
 
How could you forget this gem? :)

"Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general."
 
Thanks for the quotes, Vedic, there's some gold in there.
 
Deadlifts that are too heavy to pull generally don't take very long; the bar just kinda lays there. So if trying to move immovable objects was dangerous from the standpoint of stroke, the history of the human race would be littered with stupid people's corpses."
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Man, this one fucking rules!
 
Strong Enough is loaded with great quotes. I with I had it handy to add to the list. Tonight if I have time.
 
In response to a guy complaining that his leg curl weight hasn't increased since he started dead lifting:

"That's like bitching about masturbation not being fun anymore since you started dating a porn star"
 
Cap'n said:
Did you seriously just call Mark Rippetoe a douche?

I mean, you're right, he's an asshole. But you damn well better LISTEN to him
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I often find these type of guys are the best trainers, at least for me. I like the sorta trainer that will tell you to suck it and stop being a pussy, as long as you deserve it and they actually know what they are talking about.

I love this exchange from one of the squat critiques..

Ripptoe: These 2 questions indicate that you have either not read the book, or read it very quickly, because these are fundamental issues that you are failing to understand.

Guy: BBT is on my shelf, but I haven't memorized it. Sorry if I'm pushing you towards alcoholism.

Rippetoe: Alcoholism I can handle. Repeating myself ad infinitum I can't.
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One of my faves:

"We just call it the press, because how could you press without the shoulders? You can leg press... but that's gay."
 
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