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.

If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not.

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.

Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.

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

Big arms are fun, and if their training doesn't interfere with the rest of the program, wait till everybody's gone, like I do.

You don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights