Exercise is not a thing we do to fix a problem - it is a thing we must do anyway, a thing without which there will always be problems
Mark RippetoeI recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.
Mark RippetoeThere is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level ofmuscular stimulation and growththan the correctly performed full squat.
Mark RippetoeYou donโt get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad โฆ itโs incumbent upon you, if youโre going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing
Mark RippetoeThere 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