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Originally Posted by Matata
I'm getting back into power-lifting after many years, i forgot how great squats and deadlifts make me feel. Squats are so effective at building muscle it feels like cheating and deadlifts make my back feel indestructible.
It's also been a nostalgia trip remembering the wit and wisdom of Mark Rippetoe:
“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.”
“A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence."
“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.”
"I never met anyone with a 300 lb squat that had weak biceps"
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Truth.
There's also all the benefits of lifting that go beyond just the purely physical.
Having a tough day at work? Go lift.
Tired and feeling lazy? Go lift.
Need to get out of your own head? Go lift.
I've never left the gym feeling worse than I did when I arrived. Instead, I feel energized, sharp, motivated and strong.