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
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
Never give up what you want most for what you want today.
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Dreams do not work unless you do.
If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.
Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.
Dreams don't work unless you do
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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.
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.
Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight.
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren't prepared to go is what will make you great.
Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.
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?
Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week.
And what I'm telling you now is not for you to go out and try the same ways I try, or not to even try my technique. Just put it to your personality, put it to yourself, and you develop your workout. Cause those books and things, those are other people's gimmicks and hypes. Build your own gimmick and hype, and that'll make you a better powerlifter. Not just doin' it like James does it, cause if you try to fly off the building like superman you'll be out there in the middle of the street.
Not only are squats not bad for the knees, every legitimate research study on this subject has shown that squats improve knee stability and therefore help reduce the risk of injuries.
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?
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
That's the classic nature of people, though. We'll skip the basics and get pissed when the sexy stuff doesn't work.
There is no reason to be alive if you can't do the deadlift!
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