Motivational Workout Quotes

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

What good is it to look like Tarzan and play like Jane?

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.

Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

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.

Success isn't always about 'greatness'. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come.

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.

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

I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

I never think about losing.

Intensity builds immensity

I'm the strongest bodybuilding who ever lived, I think.

Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful athlete - or businessperson - enjoys taking calculated risks. You have to. Especially in the gym when you're squatting 500 for reps and you can't get one more but grunt out ten. Your nose starts bleeding, you fall into the rack and that's set one.

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.

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

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.

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

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.

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

You are right to be wary. There is much bullshit. Be wary of me too, because I may be wrong. Make up your own mind after you evaluate all the evidence and the logic.

There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

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.

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.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren't prepared to go is what will make you great.

Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max.

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.

That's the classic nature of people, though. We'll skip the basics and get pissed when the sexy stuff doesn't work.

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.

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.

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

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

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.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.