Rippetoe

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-Ripisms

-'your muscles cannot get "longer" without some radical orthopedic surgery

-muscles don't get leaner--you do

-there is no such thing as "firming and toning." there is only stronger and weaker

-women who do look like men have taken drastic steps in that direction that have little to do with their exercise program

-only people willing to work to the point of discomfort on a regular basis using effective means to produce that discomfort will actually look like they have been other-than comfortable most of the time.

from the book "Strong Enough"

Mark Rippetoe is the founder of Crossfit Wichita Falls. He is the man responsible for the Crossfit Total. Making sure that strength did not get left behind. However, his views on the way strength training/conditioning should proceed differed from the National Strength Coach Association. So much in fact that he decided to relinquish his bestowed title of C.S.C.S. It was posted in letter format on the Crossfit homepage. Mark was on of the first to receive that title back in the mid-eighties. To hold something so long and believe in it 100%, and then have it not seem like the fundamental truth any longer must have been hard. Ideals and principles are not things of stone and can be cast far and easily. I guess what we must learn here is, know what you stand for before you fly your flag. Rogue It!