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Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.
My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
Building muscle also increases testosterone, and when you've been in a boy band as long as I have, you can never get enough of that!
You don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights
It feels good to be fit and strong.
The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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.
We amateur athletes are peculiarly devoted to our fitness, and our obsessions can sometimes be a burden to our loved ones and a mystery to everyone else.
One of my all-time favorite workouts is boxing.
Far too many bodybuilders spend too much time exercising the smaller muscle groups such as the biceps at the expense of the larger muscle groups such as the thighs, and then they wonder why it is that they never make gains in overall size and strength.
The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse ... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.
Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.
What's not to like about weightlifting?
What it takes to build muscle in a mysterious, intriguing world. You weave the awful, the terrible things that happened to you as a child into a story.
Body exercise is incomplete if it focuses exclusively on muscle and is motivated by the ideal of a physique unspoiled by fat.
The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.
If I need to bulk up for a role, I will do more weights. If I need to slim down for something, I will do more cardio. That's usually how it goes.
Train Like an Athlete, Eat Like a Bodybuilder.
It's a lot of working out, you know, and you don't get to eat all the things you wanna eat.
I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
I want to get more muscly.
That whole world, the world of bodybuilding to me is fascinating. It's such a unique and interesting culture, and everything about it appeals to me.
You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.
When your gaze slips off the mirror and onto how well you function in the world instead, you inevitably shift emphasis away from working out to change how you look and toward physical performance.
From middle age on, there's nothing more vital to your health and weight control than building lean muscle mass, and the only way that happens is with weight training and exercise.
Working out, for me, gives me energy in the day and just makes me happy.
I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.
A woman's flexibility and a man's strength ... put them together and you'll have a body like mine.
Boxing, jiu-jitsu, scaling the Matterhorn ... I did cardio before cardio was cool.
The muscle and the mind must become one. One without the other is zero
I learned how to get in shape without getting certain muscles too big that make you look like a meathead.
Physical conditioning from regular exercise is important. And we can do so much more to keep our bodies strong.
My diet - I eat nutritionally-balanced meals. I work out. I do yoga. I love my yoga. I do boxing training because it's fun.
I naturally have an athletic build, thick legs yet a lean upper body. I filled out much later than all my classmates, and I thank God for it now. I had to learn to fix what I can and accept what I cannot fix ... That's probably the hardest thing.
If you don't fear the failure, then failures are the best muscle builder.
I learned that working out gives me a space to get clear. It's not just about the body. It gives me space to process things and get clear in my mind about decisions and things I want to do.
A guy like Bruce Lee, I've always been a fan. How he used to be able to move and be so quick. You look at some of the exercises that he did, and it was all majority free weight, like standing on your hands. That works every muscle. Everything is firing.
As your bodybuilding aims become higher, obviously you have to work harder, until, believe it or not, you are performing from 20-30 sets of both biceps and triceps three workouts per week.
When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.
Kickboxing tightens you up.
It isn't a matter of getting the body you want, it's a matter of doing the most you can with the body you have.
I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.
There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
I work out to eat.
Muscles are the way the body obeys the mind.
Exercise is your king, and nutrition is your queen. Together they create your fitness kingdom.
Every time you work out you strengthen your body. Every time you don't you weaken it.
It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF IN YOURSELF.
One of my goals is to have this incredible body. I want to be strong, to be ripped.
I try to be athletic.
Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.
You must understand that the workout does not actually produce muscular growth. The workout is merely a trigger that sets the body's growth mechanism into motion. It is the body itself, of course, that produces growth; but it does so only during a sufficient rest period.
More often than not, a lack of progress in your muscle-building efforts can be linked to nutritional shortcomings in your diet.
You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.
I'm a body builder, but I don't use weights. I use snacks. It's kind of a different building process.
To me, getting muscular was the first thing I ever achieved by working at it, and it was a game changer for me, because it was the first time I ever had confidence.
If fitness came in a bottle,everyone would have a great body. Skip the quick fixes;hard work is what ensures lasting results!
I try to keep at a non-obsessive level of fitness. It's not about looking great, it's about just feeling good. So I do a lot of yoga. Bikram just blows my mind. It's mental as well as physical; if I don't train, I get very depressed.
There's nothing like boxing for getting you in shape.
You can't just build a huge chest and arms. You need to work out your body evenly. Otherwise, A, you'll look weird, and B, it's not the best for your body.
I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.
Athletics is in my blood.
Working out makes me feel strong and energized every time. It's my therapy for my mind and my body.
Fitness is a journey, not a destination; you must continue for the rest of your life.
Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.
Strength is not gained overnight; it is cultivated over time.
We are all bodybuilders, so build the house you want to live in.
If you want to "tone and build," it is time to pick up some iron - that's the way we can get a muscle to grow.
I'm a physical guy. I play basketball, and I rock climb.
I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.
I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
I always wanted to get into proper shape.
I don't want to be all power and muscle.
What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys.
Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.
I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.
When I first started lifting I wanted to be a Super Hero.. But that was my motivation. I was huge into comics at a very young age and nothing made me feel better than helping people. So I wanted to build muscle to be like Superman, Captain America, Wolverine, etc.
For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.
There is no craving or demand of the human mind more constant and insatiable than that for exercise and employment, and this desire seems the foundation of most of our passions and pursuits.
When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a lot of muscle in high school.
I'm just naturally quite toned. My dad was like a body builder, so I've got my dad's body. Not all of it, thank God.
The way strength and conditioning has helped me now is that I make it a point to go to the gym everyday if I can.
2. Stay lean and flexible
I guess I'm an athlete now. I gotta start going to the gym.
Always remember this ... there is only ONE recipe for strength. A secret recipe that was handed down from Sandow to John Grimek to Paul Anderson to Vasily Alexeev to Bill Kazmaier to me. Now I'm giving you that magical recipe ... hard work plus proper nutrition plus time equals strong.
Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.
Subjecting yourself to vigourous training is more for the sake of forging a resolute spirit that can vanquish the self than it is for developing a strong body.
It is the mind itself which builds the body.
Conditioning is my best weapon.
If you look at pictures of the bodies of Muhammad Ali, Ray Robinson, or, for that matter, Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee, you'll see physique in perfect proportion and built for function.
My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.
A great body is a gift you give yourself
I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person.
I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.
I generally circuit train and do Pilates.