Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd

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

Most of the problems with the bodies and minds of the folks occupying the current culture involve an unwillingness to do anything hard, or anything that they'd rather not do. I applaud your resolve, and I welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice.

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

Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses.

Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.

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!