A Recipe for Survival | Ryan Blom

[cybertfj]

*If you lift weights, you should understand the stress/recovery/adaptation process. Your body will go through it whether you understand it or not. Squats and deadlifts don’t cause you to get big and strong, recovering from them does. However, your muscles aren’t the only thing that is changing and adapting; it’s all of you – physically, mentally and emotionally. Starting Strength changed me and made me “harder to kill” (The Red T-shirt).

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Your strength, persistence, and faith will always serve as vital motivation for me.

[Gsquared23]

This dude is more of a man than I’ll ever be.

[Chris_Richard]

Rip, thanks for posting this in the Weekend Archives. I hadn’t read this before. Damn, this was freaking awesome. Thank you Ryan. I wonder how you are doing now 5 years later, if you happen to read this?