Squat Every Day Quotes

“Paraphrasing Vladimir Zatsiorsky, the idea is to train as heavy as possible and as often as possible while staying as fresh as possible.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day

“In Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, Robert Sapolsky details how reactivity and your temperament are also strong predictors of how stressed-out you are likely to be. Our sensitive high reactor can be compared to a neurotic “Type A” personality. Any little thing sets them off, and once they’re going it can be hours before they settle back down. It’s easy for a high reactor to stay soaked in stress hormones for hours on end, set off by an ever-compounding series of morning traffic, meetings, bosses, co-workers, and traffic on the way home. These people set themselves off, yes, but it’s in their nature to do so. Being effectively numb to the same pressures, low-reactors can handle much more without flinching. The low reactor isn’t a psychopath, as they experience emotions and react to life-events as anyone would, but the effects of stress aren’t pronounced. It takes an extraordinary event to provoke a response, and they’re much better at turning all the coping systems off after the fact. You’d be absolutely right if you guessed that these neural and psychological differences translate to different physical outcomes. Stress is stress. Your brain is the master controller, and it doesn’t care if the threat is a third-degree burn or you clenching your teeth for 16 straight hours because you don’t know how to relax. To the high reactor, intense exercise becomes just another log on the bonfire, whereas a low reactor may not even notice.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day

“The allostatic model of stress suggests that stress-induced illness isn’t a result of depleting or exhausting any particular glands or hormones or what have you, but rather the unintended consequence of an overactive coping strategy. Stress-mode is not a healthy place to be, thanks to all the physiological changes it involves, and spending too much time there accumulates wear and tear across your entire body, which we measure as allostatic load. Paraphrasing researcher Robert Sapolsky, your body’s army doesn’t run out of bullets; it spends so much on the defense budget that it doesn’t have any cash left over for the more essential life processes.21 If the brief dip into stress-mode is adaptive ― that is, if it solves the problem ― then you’re fine. You’ll adjust and everything settles back to normal. It’s when you stay in stress-mode all day every day, for weeks and months, that you develop real health issues.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day

“feeling bad is only weakly coupled to performing badly. How you feel really is a lie.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day

“Do what you like” does make sense, and is probably a good strategy at least some of the time. The pitfall should be clear, however: doing what you like isn’t always a recipe for ideal results.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day

“The difference between a PR time and second place, between hitting that PR lift and missing it halfway, or making your last two sets or going home tired can, literally, lie inside your own mental estimations and your desire to get it done.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day

“To get good at lifting heavy things, you must practice lifting heavy things.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day

“is fundamental to all learning, whether picking up a language or learning how to squat. Changes in nerve activity precede changes in nerve structure. The more you practice a skill, the better you become at that skill. Practice enough and the skill hardwires itself into your brain.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day

“but we can actually see the growth of brand new neurons in some parts of the brain. The brain, even in adults, is far more malleable than we’d ever thought thanks to the process of reshaping and rewiring known as neural plasticity.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day

“neural plasticity.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day

“Strength is about skill, teaching your brain how to handle both a movement and a maximum weight, but it’s also about building your body’s capacities.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day

“Treat training the way the sculptor treats a statue. One chip at a time. One chip is nothing. Put 10,000 chips on the floor and you’ve made a difference. Patience.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day

“Baumeister has repeatedly found that people who exercise their willpower for one thing, say turning down a cookie while hungry, or doing complex math problems before making a decision, are more likely to give in future temptations.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day