Phil

“Successful lifters, bodybuilders, and strength athletes all have one thing in common: their training is based around six or seven basic barbell movements, and the variables that are manipulated are volume, intensity, and rest, not the number of exercises.”

“Aren’t you tired of being normal , anyway? The line at Dunkin’ Donuts holds the same faces every morning. The normal ones, the sheep, the masses just keep clocking in everyday. Donut and coffee, extra cream, extra sugar. I really need to get in shape. How much ya bench? Man, I gotta get back into the gym..if I hadn’t hurt my knee, I would do it. I am just too busy, I have too much to do….. as their pendulous belly sticks out over their jeans.

“I just like food too much!” You do? It is not that great. Being in shape, being able to defend yourself and your family without gasping for air, being able to squat and deadlift and press some prodigious weights and demonstrating rock solid discipline is awesome and it sets you apart from almost everyone that you know or will ever know. You do not get any of that stuff by being normal and HAVING to have ice cream.”