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

I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.

Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.

I don't even like Greg Glassman. I don't have a cult like allegiance to the guy. I really don't like him. He's too hard to get on the phone and he doesn't drink my kind of scotch.

A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster.

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.

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