Squat Quotes

• There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Stress, Exercise, Growth

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• I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Letting Go, Book, Sleep

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• INTENTIONS - ACTION = SQUAT

  James Hunter

  Action, Intention

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• I only judge people by the depth of their squat.

  Dan John

  People, Judging, Depth

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• 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

  Exercise, Machines, Levels

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• When life hands you lemons - SQUAT! Squats make everything better. And if squats don't, bacon will

  Anna Lee

  Hands, Lemons, Ifs

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• On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means.

  Steve Shaw

  Motivational, Workout, Real

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• The full-range-of-m otion exercise known as the squat is the single most useful exercise in the weight room, and our most valuable tool for building strength, power, and size.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Exercise, Tools, Weight

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• On resting in between reps: It varies with the length of the set. 5s or fewer get a breath to reset. Longer sets might take 2 breaths. During the last few reps of a true 20RM squat, just do what Jesus tells you. Trust me, if you do an honest 20 rep program, at some point Jesus will talk to you. On the last day of the program, he asked if he could work in.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Jesus, Might, Lasts

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• Don't squat with your spurs on.

  Will Rogers

  Cowboy, Spurs, Cowgirls

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• I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

  Howard Nemerov

  Children, Ugly, My Children

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• There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Pussy, Stones

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• It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Suicide, Suicidal, Virtue

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• You get as big as possible from becoming as strong as possible. When I started lifting I went into the gym with that ‘how much can I bench, curl, squat , and deadlift?’ attitude. That’s when I discovered how fast my strength could increase, and it made me crazy intense to get even stronger.

  Kevin Levrone

  Strong, Attitude, Crazy

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• The full squat is a perfectly natural position for the leg to occupy. That's why there is 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-intellect ual morons have been telling us that it's 'bad' for the knees.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Years, Knees, Perfectly Natural

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• Once you can squat with 180 kilograms, your arms and shoulders will come along much more receptively...If you want big arms and shoulders, your first priority is to be sure that your leg/hip/back structure is growing and becoming powerful

  Stuart McRobert

  Powerful, Priorities, Growing

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• If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what we can buy and build, and that has never been America's true God.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Powerful, Humble, America

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• Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful athlete - or businessperson - enjoys taking calculated risks. You have to. Especially in the gym when you're squatting 500 for reps and you can't get one more but grunt out ten. Your nose starts bleeding, you fall into the rack and that's set one.

  Tom Platz

  Workout, Attitude, Fall

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• To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!

  Homer

  Nice, People, Everyday

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• Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

  Robert Benton

  Meaningful, Years, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My mom passed away at 41 from diabetes. And I'm 42, thank you. I didn't want to do that to my son. So any time I was at the gym, that thing that helped me do that last squat was my son calling some other woman mommy. And that would just give me that extra oomph to do that last squat. I want to be around for him.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Thank You, Mom, Son

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• For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.

  Rupert Brooke

  Smile, People, Urban

  'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester' (1915)

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• Unexpressed good thoughts aren't worth squat!

  Ken Blanchard

  Good Thoughts

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• How intense could you be? Can you be intense enough to pick this 500Lbs off the floor? Are you intense enough to pick this 700Lbs up? Squat down to the floor and stand back up? So what if your eyes are bloodshot! So what if your bones feel like snapping! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO!

  Kai Greene

  Eye, What If, Bones

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• When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

  Shawn Johnson

  Home, Practice, Decision

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