To Get Your Mind and Body Ready to Work Out

10 KILLER QUOTES ABOUT WEIGHTLIFTING

DAVE TATE

• If you're capable of sending a legible text message between

sets, you probably aren't working hard enough.

MARY ANNE RADMACHER

• Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet

voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.

HENRY ROLLINS

• The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all

kinds of talk, get told that you're a god or a total bastard. The

Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great

reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there

like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my

greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends

may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two

hundred pounds.

MARKUS RUHL

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

MAHATMA GANDHI

• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from

an indomitable will.

STEVE SHAW

• 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.

JON PALL SIGMARSSON

• There is no reason to be alive if you can't do the deadlift!

DANIEL ROBERTS

• 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.

JOHN WOODEN

• Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by

what you should have accomplished with your ability.

MIKE MATARAZZO

• You’ve got to block out all distractions when you train. Your

focus has to be 100% into the rep. You’ve got to get into a zone.

You know you’re in the zone when guys in the gym look you in

the eye and then quickly turn away ’cause they see the fire.

You’ve got to be all business.