Sunday, September 21, 2025

this guy named Arthur Jones basically invented weightlifting machines and he's got a quote about the squat that I really like

Arthur Jones: The squat is the single most important exercise ever discovered by man — and one of the most dangerous. The mafia have a saying: “If you can't lose, you can't win.” The squat provides you with opportunities that are unprecedented by any other exercise you can think of — but it's dangerous as hell. So you have to ask yourself: is the opportunity worth the danger?

Done properly — which, to me, is a barbell squat — it need not be all that dangerous. But of course, very few people do them properly, so they become dangerous.

The barbell squat is capable of producing degrees of muscle mass increase that cannot be produced by any other exercise, or any other combination of exercises. The squat, as an exercise, is almost a miracle — and it's dangerous as hell.

but you gotta listen to him say it: squat propaganda

what a character.

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