In that moment, St Rippetoe was taken from the Mighty Rack and placed back down in his weak ass gym. For those of intermediate strength, I will have a new prophecy but now teach my people and I will guide you to all gains. Let them begin with the bar and experience true gainz. My son, preach this good news of 5x5 to the beginner and to the weak. But O mighty rack of Squat, if strength is found in low-reps and high weight what shall stop the the zealots from doing even less reps and and even higher weight. I will spend my life dedicated to the weakest and the hard-gainers of this beta-world and preach this truth of 5x5. I shall covenant myself to thee and thine laws of strength. Rippetoe lifted his eyes from these glorious truths, he asked the Mighty Rack of Squat, Thou shall increase five pounds when you success.Īs St. But alas heed this for thy mere mortal's CNS cannot withstand this volume so do only ONE set of FIVe reps of deadlift. This is a command with a promise for your gains shall increase in this and your plateaus will end in this. Thou shall squat everyday, alternate Bench and Press, and alternate Row and Deadlift Thou shall only Squat, Deadlift, Bench, Press, and Row He opened it and there was it was written. The gym was filled with light and a book came from the sky and landed in St Rippetoe's danty hands weakened from high reps and low weight. With tears streaming down St Rippetoe's goatee, he turned his face away not able to keep his gaze fix on the glory of the squat rack and he waited for an answer. Too long have I missed reps! Oh please tell me oh mighty squat rack, How shall I break my shame of failed PR attempts? How many reps and oh how many sets shall lead me down a straight bar path? Too long have I sat on my plateaus of despair. I now desire true wisdom and true strength. No longer will I be led astray by his cross-fit girlfriends and his sponsorships from Bang Energy Drinks. I repent! I will turn from my deception! No longer will I look to the false prophet Bodybuilder and his striving for mass. With a dry tongue and shaking legs, he looked back towards the evermost set apart squat rack as it shone and he asked it, Mark Rippetoe shook and reached for his shaker bottle but alas it was empty for he had drank it all while he depleted his glycogen levels in his muscles in his everlasting sets. You will say 8 reps that will be good for strength, and your legs may tremble but your plateaus will remain unshaken. Cast off your long sets of 12 reps! You may say how about 10 rep and I say you will lack gains. Never would you pick up a curl bar and do endless curls for so called gains but you have been deceived in thinking that endless reps of squat will bring you to the land flowing with gainz and heavy squats. "You stiff-necked and weak people, thou think in your many reps you will find strength, but you have been deceived by the false prophet called Bodybuilder. The prophet Mark Rippetoe heard a voice coming from the Squat Rack while genuflecting before his last set of 12.