Tom Platz

"Do you know when you first met your girlfriend? You didn't just walk up to her and say, 'Hey honey! Let's go to bed!' right? It was sort of a courting process, same with the squats. Sort of like you get to know it, sort of get to feel familiar with it, you own the space, you feel that it's yours, and then you progress to the next phase of the relationship. You don't walk in and just- The squat is not something you just do a few of these and do something else. This is a religion. This is the altar."