Articles | programming


Mark Rippetoe | May 09, 2013

"This is the most important thing to understand: strength is the most general of all athletic adaptations. All other physical capacities . . .depend on the production of force within the physical environment."

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Mark Rippetoe | May 06, 2013

Exercise and training are two different things.

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Mark Rippetoe | May 04, 2013

Are you content to merely stay "lean"? Or do you want to actually accomplish your goal – the one you set for yourself when you started, before all the diet websites distracted you? If you do, you have to train very hard and recover from that training.

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Mark Rippetoe | May 02, 2013

"It’s not bad to be a novice. I wish like hell I were a novice again, knowing what I know now. Your novice months, done correctly, will show you the fastest gains in size and strength you’ll ever make in the weight room."

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Mark Rippetoe | May 01, 2013

"You are now strong enough that each workout represents a stress that takes longer to recover from. You are lifting weights that are heavy enough that your increases in load must be accomplished every week instead of every workout, three times per week. This means that progress is one-third the pace it was previously; it also means that it has the potential to occur for a longer period of time, if you’re careful."

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