Motivational Workout Quotes - Page 3

• The bench press per se is not a risky exercise. When done right, it can help improve upper body strength and size. It's only when form takes a back seat to numbers and when it's grossly overtrained that problems result. Injuries occur in the shoulders and elbows when the bench press is overtrained, poor technique is used, such as rebounding the bar off the chest and bridging, no other exercises for the upper body are included in the program, and there are no core exercises done for the upper back. Quite often, it's a combination all these factors.

  Bill Starr

  Workout, Exercise, Bad Ass

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• Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn't matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses.

  Tom Platz

  Workout, Unique, Bad Ass

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• I don't believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn't have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body, he should take up ping pong.

  Steve Reeves

  Motivational, Workout, Nice

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• Regarding the mantra..."There is no overtraining" Just because you can handle large amounts of volume doesn't mean it's needed. That's the crux of the issue. Just because the body can tolerate something doesn't mean it's a necessity for progress. This is simply poor logic.

  Steve Shaw

  Workout, Mean, Issues

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• 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.

  Reg Park

  Workout, Exercise, Groups

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• The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that kick it off, the things in your control can be distilled down to a few principles: Get stronger in the right rep ranges, eat appropriately, commit to the program and consistently work hard at it.

  Daniel Roberts

  Workout, Hard Work, People

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• You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Fitness, Work Out, Training

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• On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means.

  Steve Shaw

  Motivational, Workout, Real

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• Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

  John Wooden

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

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• 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

  Motivational, Workout, Bodybuilding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I go out there onstage, I want to be more than just a blocky guy who waddles onto the posing platform. I want the girls to feel something.

  Tom Platz

  Girl, Workout, Guy

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• Trust me, if you do an honest 20 rep program, at some point Jesus will talk to you. On the last day of the program, he asked if he could work in.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Jesus, Workout, Bad Ass

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• It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.

  Henry Rollins

  Workout, Pain, Iron Will

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• I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.

  Markus Ruhl

  Workout, Bodybuilding, Healthy

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• Last time I checked, lifting theory has a PR of zero.

  Steve Shaw

  Workout, Zero, Lasts

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• At the end of the day it's not a weight contest, it's a visual contest. And it doesn't matter what you say you weigh, if you don't look that big then you don't look that big.

  Dorian Yates

  Workout, The End Of The Day, Looks

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• Stimulate don't Annihilate.

  Lee Haney

  Workout, Training

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• 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

  Workout, Emotional, Artist

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• It is harder to be a lifter than a bodybuilder...lifting is purely masculine whereas bodybuilding entails feminine traits. Bodybuilding reminds me of a woman getting ready to go somewhere. Can you tell me that greasing your body up and posing in front of a mirror is masculine? A bodybuilder puts strength secondary to his physique, whereas the lifter puts strength foremost because it is more masculine to do so.

  Doug Hepburn

  Workout, Bodybuilding, Mirrors

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• 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.

  Steve Pulcinella

  Strong, Workout, Hard Work

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• That's a good weight...for a small woman

  Dorian Yates

  Motivational, Workout, Bodybuilding

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• Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.

  Dan John

  Senior, Workout, Distance

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• I'm not the kind of guy who tries to run between the drops. Sometimes you gotta get a little wet to reach your destination

  Erik Fankhouser

  Running, Workout, Guy

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• Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Motivational, Strong, Workout

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• Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Workout, Athlete, Bad Ass

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