In 1959 I had broken the bench press record by lifting 565 pounds, and I could lift 715 pounds from a squat.
I go to the gym four days a week, and focus on my upper body and lower body on alternate days. I also do a lot of free style exercises such as stretching and squatting.
A wandering family [in Ireland] will fix themselves under a dry bank and with a few sticks, furze, fern, etc,, make up a hovel much worse than an English pigsty, and support themselves how they can by work, begging, and stealing.
We lived at the Sex Pistols' house because we were asked to vacate our room at the YWCA for 'keeping late hours.'
Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander.
I hate it when anyone in the gym can deadlift more than me.
Glutes are power.
I lost an apartment. l became homeless for 11 months and squatted in a building on Sullivan Street in lower Manhattan.
I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.
We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell's Angels in this flat. They were always around.
I've been doing a lot of deadlifting and squatting for overall strength.
Just watch the interlopers from all over the world come and install themselves in our home. They want to transform France into a giant squat.
My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.
My fitness approach and philosophy are based on day-to-day functionalities. These functions are bending, lifting, lunging, pulling, pushing and squatting.
I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.
I think there's a lot of honesty in that track. 'Smalltown Boy' was about leaving Glasgow but it was also about the people I had come to meet on my journey, especially when I was squatting in London.
But where else should they sleep?
The catcher is a groundhog. He's a guy squatting down, digging for the ball in the dirt, and sweating under a pile of uncomfortable protective gear while his knees creak.
I squatted for most of my adult life. I'm not condoning squatting; it was just the only way I could do what I wanted to do. I didn't have, you know, a trust fund or parents that could help out.
I used to be a very, very heavy weight lifter. I weighed about 210, 215. And I used to put a lot of weight on my back. I squatted over 500 pounds.
I'm freakishly good at squatting.
An astonishing disengagement from reality is necessary to actually believe there is something sinister about protecting people's homes from invasion through squatting.
The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.
The idea that squatting in some way offers a reasonable solution to the issue of homelessness is both false and cruel.
