How to Get Really Strong



Step 1: Find a partner you can lift in a squat.

Step 2. You get on the Spartan Diet.

Step 3. Put your partner on a conventional American industrialized diet.

Step 4. Squat with your partner twice a week. As the partner gets fatter, you'll get leaner and stronger.

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