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I love weights, but it's too far to get to the gym. So I make the farm my gym: I split wood and haul tires and do work on the farm, and that's sort of my weight training portion.
Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.
Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.
John Andrew Holmes, No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting another up.
When lifting, I'm always with a trainer because the thing that makes a difference is that last 20% in your training, and he very scientifically looks after my food as well, because when I'm going for a 'shirt off' shot, everything changes the month before, and I'm timed down to the day.
I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
I don't lift weights.
Long exercised in woes.
I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
Hard work ain't so easy, strength training is just plain old hard work and it ain't easy.
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.
How intense could you be? Can you be intense enough to pick this 500Lbs off the floor? Are you intense enough to pick this 700Lbs up? Squat down to the floor and stand back up? So what if your eyes are bloodshot! So what if your bones feel like snapping! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO!
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.
Fielding's research group suggests that rapid weight lifting as opposed to the slow mode of traditional lifting may help maintain fast-twitch muscle power with age.
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.
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
The application of consistent, logical effort, over a prolonged period is the key to reaching your physical muscular potential.
By lifting each other up we lift ourselves up
I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.
Because of the way I'm built, I constantly have to strengthen. This is sort of a ritual: I put on my tights first, and right when I'm about to put on my costume, I get down on the floor, and I plank.
Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
I'll put on a song that I really like and do bicep curls with two kilo weights the whole song.
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.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as well. Think of pure pain: that's the ergometer.
My gym has two-pound weights. If you're using two-pound weights, how did you even open the door to the gym? What's your dream? To pump up and open your mail?
Kickboxing tightens you up.
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.
Sometimes we push ourselves. We take a workout and we use it as a way to crack open our shell, let the pain rush in and push out the stagnant wounds of the heart. Sometimes a workout sets you free.
I like to do Pilates.
People think that strength is about lifting weights in the gym. It's more about getting up when you're knocked down by life.
Train, don't strain.
I took my weight training to a new level.
Sometimes I do yoga, sometimes it's kickboxing, sometimes it's weight training, sometimes it's Pilates.
The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.
I have to learn to find that inner core of strength that I am definitely made up of and stretch it into areas where I don't always use it.
Use the hills to get stronger!
I can just put my head down and train hard.
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.
It's all about mechanics; all the weight-lifting in the world can't help you if you're not running correctly.
Training in God's gym may hurt sometimes, but He will make us stronger.
Nobody gets muscles by watching ME lift weights.
I don't bench press, but I use machines to work 10-12 muscle groups. Biceps, triceps, a few things for the back, calves, shoulders and so on - and then I'll go on the running machine, cross-trainer or mountain climber.
To combat the monotony of gym workouts, I started playing soccer. I looked at workouts as training sessions. My soccer training includes squats, pushups, resistance-band work, and sprints. Ninety minutes of running became part of my love of the game rather than a chore.
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
Balance your body for better results. A balanced body improves electrical communication to muscles and gets you stronger, faster.
I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
I had a trainer during 'Spiderman,' and I discovered I have deep-seated rage when I'm holding heavy weights over my head. Whatever dormant anger I have in me, that's where it comes out. That's not the kind of working out I want to do.
We're Norwegians. You know, the Vikings. My deadlift was 310 pounds. I mean, I was very, very strong - and I didn't take steroids. I did it all on my own.
I stay away from straight bench; all the work I do is with dumbbells to protect my rotator cuffs. Then I'll do a bunch of different pull moves like inverted rows before finishing with some simple internal or external rotations with a band to strengthen my shoulder.
a push up or two . . . or twenty.
Boxing, jiu-jitsu, scaling the Matterhorn ... I did cardio before cardio was cool.
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.
The strongest shoulders are not the well-built shoulders of a weight lifter who carries iron dumbbells, but they are of a mother's weak shoulders which carry three children!
You don't get strength for the load; you get strength from the load.
The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.
A bit of exercise lifts the spirit. (The Angel's Game)
To strengthen the muscles of your heart, the best exercise is lifting someone else's spirit whenever you can.
The best exercise for the human heart is reaching down to lift someone else up.
I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.
I carry a lot of muscle easily.
I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That's not going to do me any good. We didn't have any weights in our clubhouse. We had one exercise bike and that was for the guy who tweaked his hamstring. And that thing didn't even work half the time.
I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.
In my weightlifting I am trying to show that if you pray and meditate, you can bring to the fore your inner strength. Now, if somebody is really inwardly strong, he is always at peace.
When I'm in the gym, I always try and pair a push and a pull motion. I'll then follow that with a lot of shoulder stability work.
People work out, they stress their body, and their body gets stronger from stress.
You don't have to be strong enough to do it all at once - no one is. You just have to be strong enough to do one thing. That's it. Then you rest, and when you've regained that strength back, you tackle the next thing.
That is the beautiful part about weights: even if you are 100 year old, you can lift something. Maybe it's only a half a pound or a pound or two pounds. It will still do something.
Maximum your strengths.
Keep, keep, keep adding muscles keep and keep becomings stronger and more... As more you have, as more you are moron.
I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.
I'm not naturally athletic.
No woman should ever lift more than 3lbs
I'm not super-athletic.
When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.
Constantly reemphasize to yourself the great fact that God built potential strength into your nature. By affirming it and practicing it, this basic strength will toughen up as muscles do.
I'm training everyday, even though I should be resting.
There is no point in being alive if you cannot do the deadlift
It's hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting still for hours, not moving a muscle. Really concentrated work, so I'm ready. I'm ready for my performance.
from endless leg lifts and sit-ups in a gravel parking lot. When my calling to the Michigan State Police came with the murder of Howard Stoker, Rene's advice would cause me to examine carefully my own chain, and strive to strengthen all its
Strength, like height, is measured by who you're standin next to!
I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I'll lift idly while I'm watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder.
Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.
I'm pretty athletic, but I'm not very strong.
I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
I don't go to a gym. I find that really hard to do.
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.
When you start to treat the light weights like heavy weights, the heavy weights will go up a lot easier.
I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out.
Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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
When I'm at the gym, I think about chicks, going to the beach, and looking good. I do it for the girls.
It really helps if you've got something like cycling, walking, running or swimming that can let your body release all that tension and keep your muscles fit.
There is no reason to be alive if you can't do the deadlift!
Pilates is great.
For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.