Wimps lift Weights, Cheerleaders lift People — Stephanie
Lift something heavy most every day, even if it’s just your weary body up to the pullup bar a few times. — Mark Sisson
You can go to the gym, lift as many weights as you want, but if you can't bench press your duvet at fajr then it doesn't mean anything — Khalid Yasin
I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life. — Sri Chinmoy
You don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights — Mark Rippetoe
When you start to treat the light weights like heavy weights, the heavy weights will go up a lot easier. — Ed Coan
Deadlifts are key to mass. Don’t shy away from what works. — Martyn Ford
Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight. — Ronnie Coleman
I gained 2 pounds of muscle mass looking at Jocko Willink's Instagram. — Theo Von
You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up. — Bob Hope
I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy. — Ronnie Coleman
My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when i was knocked down. — Bob Moore
The notion that women should not lift weights is perpetuated by women who fear work and men who fear women... — Layne Norton
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. — Martial
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. — Marcus Valerius Martial
Short Lifting Weights Quotes
Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best. — Ronnie Coleman
There is no exercise better for the mind than reaching down and lifting another person up. — Steven Bartlett
Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym. — Greg Plitt
Fitness in four words: Move yourself and objects. — Michael Easter
Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree. — George Washington
Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth. — Lee Labrada
I'm more muscular than I was in my younger days. My biceps and shoulders, especially. — Jim Goad
Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps. — Bo Jackson
Rolex, mo sex, good weed, no stress, run my town, arms, chest, lift weights, bowflex — Wiz Khalifa
If you want to fly, give up everything that weights you down.
Lifting Weights Motivational Quotes
If I have to die tonight,if this weight is going to kill me tonight,so be it! I am dying where I wanna be — Kai Greene
Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that! — Bill Parcells
I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles. — Markus Ruhl
Choose people who lift you up.
When lifting weights, nothing feels better than achieving a high point on the bench press with no help from your spotter. — Robert Cheeke
Most people who are healthy, and I'm healthy, can't even live my life. Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I'm at work until 8-9 o'clock at night. — Magic Johnson
Lifting Heavy Weights Quotes
I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion. — Ricardo Montalban
I think that strength levels go hand in hand with building a great physique. You've got to lift heavy weight to get big - period. — Branch Warren
The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different. — Roger Moore
Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
If a man seriously proposes to go in for lifting heavy weights, he should make a point of practising certain lifts every day. This daily practice is essential to the achievement of any real success. — Arthur Saxon
How many charming talents have been spoiled by the instilled desire to do 'important' work! Some people are born to lift heavy weights. Some are born to juggle with golden balls. — Max Beerbohm
I do heavy weights in the morning for about an hour, and then I do 45 minutes of higher-volume lifting in the afternoon. My least favorite is the legs... I do quite a few chin-ups and rows. I do mostly old-school lifting with a lot of squats. — Hugh Jackman
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room. — Mark Teixeira
I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor. — Jake Pavelka
I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heavy workouts. That's stayed in my muscle memory. I feel horrible when I feel my jeans are getting tight. Workouts peace me out. — Arjun Rampal
I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Inspirational Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
Strong people don't put others down... They lift the up.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Weight Training Quotes
The myth that women should lift light weights to prevent getting 'bulky' is perpetuated by men who fear women and women who fear work. — Layne Norton
I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds — Henry Rollins
Ladies, want nice glutes? Stop w the silly plyometrics and step ups with baby weights. SQUAT! Squat heavy, squat often, squat deep. Repeat! — Layne Norton
I never have a problem with the weight cut. My number one enemy is injuries because I train so hard. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
I need eight weeks, train hard, last one week make weight, and go to the war. Because when I go to the war, I have to know I am ready or no. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
That's a good weight...for a small woman — Dorian Yates
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got. — Marian Diamond
What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back. — Steve Prefontaine
I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training. — Kristanna Loken
Strength Training Quotes
They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing? — Kai Greene
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan
The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment — Dorian Yates
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. — Bruce Lee
As we get older, we lose muscle mass and strength. But if we've been doing resistance training, we will be better prepared for an unpredictable hospitalization. Analysis of 10 studies found that 60 min of resistance training per week is linked to a 27% lower risk of premature death. — Rhonda Patrick
Karate-do strives internally to train the mind to develop a clear conscience, enabling one to face the world honestly, while externally developing strength to the point where one may overcome even ferocious wild animals. Mind and technique become one in true karate. — Gichin Funakoshi
There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy. — Mark Rippetoe
No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. — Socrates
I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment. — Chloe Sevigny
Every training session, I work hard to improve my weaknesses and build on my strengths. — Antoine Griezmann
Strength And Conditioning Quotes
I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition. — Jim Brown
If you want a simple strength and conditioning program, stick to the basics. Run your 400s and 800s, and do lots of power cleans and presses and long heavy sets of squats. — Mike Webster
People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community. — Leo XIII
Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics. — Suzanne Yoculan
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living. — Simone de Beauvoir
It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness. — Shunryu Suzuki
A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition. — James Allen
No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable. — Socrates
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves. — Leon Trotsky
Weight Room Quotes
I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time. — Robbie Williams
The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison. — Hunter S. Thompson
Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up semen would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain. — Bill Konigsberg
I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game. — Adrian Peterson
And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers. — Nolan Ryan
In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room. — Junior Seau
I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites. — Fergie
I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach. — Allyson Felix
The full-range-of-m otion exercise known as the squat is the single most useful exercise in the weight room, and our most valuable tool for building strength, power, and size. — Mark Rippetoe
I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed. — Florence Griffith Joyner
Bodybuilding Training Quotes
Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you're not laying a brick down. Somebody else is. — Dorian Yates
Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree. — Ed Coan
Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of to their irrational training and dietary practices, they give up training. Don't make the same mistake — Mike Mentzer
After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn't just build muscle he creates muscle. You can't be a robot. — Tom Platz
I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says? — Vince Gironda
Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training. — Vladimir Kramnik
Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general. — Mark Rippetoe
The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment — Justin Langer
I think a lot of people can see that if you put the hard work in, you trained. There’s result at the end of it. — Martyn Ford
I’ve been training for Ronda Rousey [to compete with her] since my first fight in the UFC. — Amanda Nunes
You want to shock the body and not be constant. Intermittent fasting is an increasingly popular way: Skip breakfast, for example. Also lifting weights, losing your breath from exercise and alternating between hot and cold temperatures. We think these measures will only get us to 100 to 122 years old. That's our natural lifespan. — David Sinclair
If you don't follow a good nutritional plan, you're bodybuilding with one arm behind your back. — Shawn Ray
Just do some kind of workout. Doesn't matter if it's going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming - you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game. — Jocko Willink
That means to push very heavy weight, repeatedly, and to constantly strive to elevate both your baseline numbers and the total weight lifted at the workout – until you start to reach a natural limit relative to your competitive goals. This will deliver improvements in strength and subsequent improvements in endurance performance and also maximize the hormonal, anti-aging benefits of the workout. — Mark Sisson
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. — Erma Bombeck
I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important. — Merlin Olsen
This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life. — Abraham Lincoln
And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless as light itself - /All gold and white and light. — Lawren Harris
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on. — Bernard De Voto
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on. — Bernard Devoto
You go in the weight room and you lift weights and you do all these things to strengthen your body. This is strengthening your mind. When you can stay focused and you can use that focus to always come back with your breath to center yourself, so that you're kind of floating in the moment, in the spirit. — Phil Jackson
Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy. — Gabrielle Union
I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights. — Bob Iger
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me. — Henry Rollins
I guess with myself, I was probably the first woman to lift weights and do circuit training and to run the sand hills. — Margaret Court
The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. — Henry Rollins
Feed and strengthen your body. Fear is physical. When you lift weights or go for a sprint, that energy flows back into your body and restores you to certainty. — Tony Robbins
I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. — Henry Rollins
You can lead in multiple ways. I try and lead by example, and make sure that I'm always accountable to my teammates. That starts off with my commitment to waking up early, training hard, lifting weights, and running. It's in my nutrition. It's just making sure I always put myself in the best possible position. — Larry Fitzgerald
Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life. — BANKS
I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway. — Dolly Parton
There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering, Swept as a sea-bird out to sea. — Sara Teasdale
Maybe lifting someone else’s weight makes yours a little more bearable — Tarryn Fisher
If I eat something a little crazy or if I feel sluggish, I know I have to eat better the next day and work out. I work out, I do circuit training so I try to keep my heart rate up whether I'm doing cardio, lifting weights or jumping rope. I like to mix it up. I also take Zumba classes - I love those, those are a blast. — Jordin Sparks
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