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
I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles. — Markus Ruhl
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back. — Steve Prefontaine
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
If you want to fly, give up everything that weights you down.
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
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. — Bruce Lee
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
Your strongest muscle
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
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
Bodybuilding Training Quotes
Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best. — Ronnie Coleman
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
Education is not the learning of facts, it's rather the training of the mind to think.
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
Champions train, losers complain.
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
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
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
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
If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
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
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
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
Champions train. Losers complain.
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
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
The notion that women should not lift weights is perpetuated by women who fear work and men who fear women... — Layne Norton
If you don't follow a good nutritional plan, you're bodybuilding with one arm behind your back. — Shawn Ray
I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life. — Sri Chinmoy
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
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
Fitness Training Quotes
Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase. — Joseph Pilates
the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes. — Oswald Mosley
School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves. — Naval Ravikant
This measurement of highest oxygen consumption, called VO2 max, is the best gauge of cardiorespiratory fitness. Training the body to breathe less actually increases VO2 max, which can not only boost athletic stamina but also help us live longer and healthier lives. — James Nestor
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs. — Joan Walsh Anglund
Every training session, I work hard to improve my weaknesses and build on my strengths. — Antoine Griezmann
You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body. — Shawn Achor
I’ve been training for Ronda Rousey [to compete with her] since my first fight in the UFC. — Amanda Nunes
No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training — Socrates
Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max. — Jim Conroy
Building Muscle Quotes
Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore. — Peter Brook
The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill set that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It’s just like building muscles. — Naval Ravikant
If you can build a muscle, you can build a mindset. — Jay Shetty
What is needed to maintain muscle mass is FAR LESS effort & volume than what is required to build it initially. For most it will be possible to maintain the vast majority of muscle you’ve built using home workouts even without access to weights. Don’t quit. Stay consistent. — Layne Norton
Goodwill to others is constructive thought. It helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes vour blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life. The more such thought you attract to you, the more life you will have. — Prentice Mulford
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. — Eknath Easwaran
Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber. — Rick Warren
The most important day in any running program is rest. Rest days give your muscles time to recover so you can run again. Your muscles build in strength as you rest. — Hal Higdon
God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer. — Colin S. Smith
Workout Quotes
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. — Hippocrates
Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day. — Ray Lewis
Bodybuilding Quotes
Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece. — Kai Greene
I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it. — Branch Warren
All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices. — Louis Zamperini
Women really do pay attention to a man's glutes. A tight, compact ass is often voted even more desirable than muscular arms and chest. So, if you're lacking, start squatting! — Ronnie Coleman
Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice. — Will Smith
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
Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get. — Brian Tracy
I originally started in natural bodybuilding because I was picked on a lot in high school and didn’t get much attention from girls. As I learned to love the process of lifting more and more I started becoming more interested in competing. — Layne Norton
Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym. — Greg Plitt
More 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
The notion that women should not lift weights is perpetuated by women who fear work and men who fear women... — Layne Norton
To make the analogy explicit, in Software 1.0, human-engineered source code e.g. some .cpp files is compiled into a binary that does useful work. In Software 2.0 most often the source code comprises 1 the dataset that defines the desirable behavior and 2 the neural net architecture that gives the rough skeleton of the code, but with many details the weights to be filled in. The process of training the neural network compiles the dataset into the binary — the final neural network. In most practical applications today, the neural net architectures and the training systems are increasingly standardized into a commodity, so most of the active software development takes the form of curating, growing, massaging and cleaning labeled datasets. — Andrej Karpathy
I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff. — Bear Grylls
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
I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles. — Markus Ruhl
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
I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training. — Kenneth H. Cooper
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I am constantly working out-circuit training, jumping rope, and stair-stepping, and sticking to 1200 calories a day. It can't be something that you're doing to lose weight, and then once you do, you're done. I do it every day of my life. — LeAnn Rimes
I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me. — Henry Rollins
Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day. — Bruce Lee
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless. — Herophilos
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. — Josh Billings
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
I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire. You could say, very concerned about our younger generation that does not have the jobs they need to get themselves out of the debt that they're in. And have the full weight of the climate crisis exploding on them - on their watch. — Jill Stein
The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit. — Bruce Lee
You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case. — Deborah Bull
I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy. — Natalie Coughlin
I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. — Henry Rollins
I'm a competitive bodybuilder; I'm not training just to be healthy. Ninety-five percent of the people training with weights are into this health thing, and it's a different mentality entirely. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Vegan bodybuilding is about fueling your body with a vast array of natural, healthy foods, combined with resistance weight training and exercise, providing your body with the appropriate tools to build your physique and achieve your fitness goals. — Robert Cheeke
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
I train twice a day and I make sure I eat right. I'm an avid tea drinker and I enjoy the benefits of drinking MateFit. It gives me energy, speeds up my metabolism and helps me shed excess water weight. I also do everything from MMA sparring to strength and conditioning. I make sure to do a combination of different things with my training. — Miesha Tate
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life. — Anne Lamott
When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight. — Sugar Ray Leonard
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
I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights. — Clara Hughes
I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice. — Sasha Cohen
I think it is easier for thinner people to build on a frame once you get lean muscle. I get bored lifting weights at the gym, and it isn't enough as your body becomes stiff. So I train in different ways such as core training, cardio with weights, playing sports such as tennis, cycling, swimming and running 10 km once a week. — Arjun Rampal
Sometimes I do yoga, sometimes it's kickboxing, sometimes it's weight training, sometimes it's Pilates. — Paula Patton
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight. — Josh Billings
To fight a bigger guy you need to train with bigger guys and it takes a lot more on your body. And it's not your weight class. — Georges St-Pierre
Everything is moderation, really. I don't really deprive myself of anything. But I try to balance it with healthy food choices. I am not real fond of exercise, so I try to get away with as little as possible which is about thirty minutes three times a week and I do a little weight training and cardio. — Martina McBride
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
There was one day when I just didn't feel like I could do weight training after my cardio, so I didn't. You do have to know when to stop, or you can hurt yourself. — Jordana Brewster
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
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