Wimps lift Weights, Cheerleaders lift People — Stephanie
Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym. — Greg Plitt
It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know. — T. D. Jakes
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. — Swami Vivekananda
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 dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game. — Adrian Peterson
The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill. — Charisma Carpenter
I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world. — Maria Sharapova
I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life. — Sri Chinmoy
Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight. — Ronnie Coleman
Rolex, mo sex, good weed, no stress, run my town, arms, chest, lift weights, bowflex — Wiz Khalifa
Now they have 100 machines for women at the gym. When I was young they had four machines at the gym for ladies, and three of ‘em were stoves! — Theo Von
My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine. — Caroline Rhea
Short Weight Room Quotes
Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps. — Bo Jackson
Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth. — Lee Labrada
Deadlifts are key to mass. Don’t shy away from what works. — Martyn Ford
You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up. — Bob Hope
Fitness in four words: Move yourself and objects. — Michael Easter
Bodybuilding isn’t 90 minutes in the gym..it’s a lifestyle — Lee Priest
Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder. — Ronnie Coleman
Weight Room Image Quotes
If you want to fly, give up everything that weights you down.
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
Every time you subtract negative from your life, you make room for more positive.
The notion that women should not lift weights is perpetuated by women who fear work and men who fear women... — 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
Dont fill you head with worries, there wont be room for anything else
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
I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles. — Markus Ruhl
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
The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.
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 is no room in your future for your past to tag along.
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
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.
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
Confidence isn't walking into a room thinking you're better than everyone, it's walking in not having to compare yourself to anyone at all.
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
Lifting Weights 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
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
My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when i was knocked down. — Bob Moore
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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
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
Sometimes a whisper in a noisy room is the most effective strategy.
You don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights — Mark Rippetoe
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
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
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
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
If you are filled with pride then you'll have no room for wisdom.
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
That's one thing I pride myself on is working hard in the weight room, working hard in practice, trying to become a better player. — Dwight Howard
I would eat 300 calories a day - a lot of Jell-O and no-sugar everything, of course. I was doing Pilates, weight-training, circuit training; over lunch I would run on a treadmill in my dressing room with a fan on my face so I wouldn't sweat my makeup off. — Portia de Rossi
I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can't simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room. — David Cone
Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were "the people," and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority. — Eric Hoffer
We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wanted to come out and be as good as any team in the state, to prove we could hang with any team at any time. — Anthony Davis
I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done. — Cory Lidle
I don't know what cancer did to me but I put on probably 10 pounds of muscle and got a lot stronger in the weight room and during our dry-land stuff. — Eric Shanteau
I loved challenging myself every day. The weight room was my therapy for everyday life stresses. No matter what I was doing I always wanted to be the best. — Ronnie Coleman
I've got these five-pound weights and a treadmill in the living room. I work out the other parts that have affected my voice: my diaphragm - doctors took mine out in surgery - and my lungs. I've got to build back my legs, too, so I can run across that stage. I've got a lot to do, but I'm going to get out, sing songs and tell the stories. — Sharon Jones
I walk out of the room, lurching under the weight of the lesson I've learned less than one hour into wifehood: How quickly the sweetest love turns rancid when it isn't returned. When the one you love loves someone else. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Whether it's playing catch or going to the weight room, you've just got to blend in and introduce yourself as you go along. — Tyler Beede
I'm very competitive and if I'm not in the weight room than someone is getting better than me. I just have to stay in there and prove myself any way that I can. — Justin Cole
In the off-season you like to take a little time for yourself, but I'd like to say that people say I live in the weight room and that I had the keys to it. That's just the type of character I am. — Justin Cole
I focused solely on the sprints, dedicated my time there, got in the weight room, just really did everything I could to make sure I would be in the best position to run for gold. — Allyson Felix
I do a lot of exercises where I'm so tired that I'm not supposed to do the last rep. What that does is it teaches me that no matter how far I am, how hard I've fallen, I'm never out of the fight. I just take that with me every time I'm in the weight room. — Dwight Howard
Sometimes you'll see interviews about an actor who was asked to hit the weight room to develop his body for the character, and you hear them complaining about the egg white omelettes they had to eat and the tortures of hitting the gym twice a day - I find that to be a bit saddening, it's all a part of becoming the character and as an actor, that is your job. — James Preston Rogers
I'm doing the exact same thing and adding a little bit more flexibility. I'm going to bench here. I'm not a kicker who's just going to hang out at practice. I'm going to be in the weight room pushing linebackers, defensive ends, tight ends. I'm going to push everyone. whatever I'm doing, I'm putting up numbers that someone else would do. Not only do I love working out, but at the same time it's able for others to maximize their potential. — Kyle Brindza
I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room. — Mark Teixeira
And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake. — Libba Bray
the fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to work because it's so close to us, it's our own bodies, that we don't see it as coming from outside ourselves, we don't name it for the weapon it is. — Elana Dykewomon
The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in deposits of faded life on the floor. — Haruki Murakami
I work extremely hard in the weight room, and also on the court to get better and make sure I keep my body in shape. — Dwight Howard
He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death had made the visit easy, had unloosed the weight that held him in the depths of being. It was even a comfort to think, from the light repose the struggle up the hill had brought him, that Kiyoaki, struggling against illness up that same road, had been given wings to soar with by the denial that awaited him. — Yukio Mishima
Once," Balinda begins softly, "when I was in the emergency room with my mother they brought in a murderer who had been shot and was dying, right there in front of us. I watched as the nurse touched his face and reassured him and I could not believe they were being so nice to him.""What happened?" Jill asked."My mother rose up, took my arm, gripped it as if she was a weight lifter and said, 'he was a beautiful baby once and his mother loved him'. — Kris Radish
Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don't. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room. — Ray Lewis
He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire. — J. R. R. Tolkien
I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real. — Sarah Dessen
But it's a whole lot easier to keep[secrets] when you've got someone else who knows breathing in the same room. Carrying them alone is like having a huge spiky weight digging into your shoulders and chest, a weight you can't shift even while you're sleeping. — Lilith Saintcrow
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