Best 198 quotes in «bodybuilding quotes» category

Vegan bodybuilding is about fueling your body with a vast array of natural, healthy foods, combined with resistance weight training and exercise, providing your body with the appropriate tools to build your physique and achieve your fitness goals.

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower.

We all have 1,440 minutes each day to accomplish everything on our schedule. We are accountable for prioritizing the decisions we make with our time.

We all need to have heroes, people to admire and look up to. To find a hero, first look to your parents or older brother or sister. Then look to the people who share the same morals and values that you have, and have accomplished the goals that you strive to achieve.

We are all capable of living each day with a fiery passion and sense of purpose that radiates in our smile and voice.

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

We need more people like Bill Phillips in the world. People who live each day with a passion to help other people. The kind of person who will motivate you beyond what you thought was possible and the kind of person who will celebrate your success with you.

We were all born to "be somebody," look deep inside your heart to find out who and what you are supposed to be.

What I'm against is a sport that rewards mass for the sake of mass to the exclusion of all other physical properties of the physique. In other words, there comes a point where, if you keep adding muscle mass, the human body loses its beauty, shape and form. That's what I'm against.

WAIT TILL THEY SEE THESE ARMS IN AFRICA. THEY LOOK BIG ENOUGH TO ME

When backed up against a wall, dig deep, demand excellence, stand tall, and be strong.

When I accomplish a challenging goal it is one of the most powerful and wonderful feelings in the world.

When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me.

When I played basketball, I spent hours On the court practicing. When i became a body-builder, I was in the gym all the time. Like most beginners, I didn't really know what I was doing, but the more I did it, the more I loved it. I guess you could say I was a gym rat. Seeing my body change made me come back for more.

When I workout early in the morning, the rest of the day feels so much better.

When lifting weights, nothing feels better than achieving a high point on the bench press with no help from your spotter.

When working out, play your favorite music loudly for an extra boost of energy.

When you got a guy that has purpose, now your in a dog fight.

When you love something as much as I love bodybuilding you don't have to do much extra to push yourself, it just happens. There were some tough times and when those came up I just used my mental strength to push through knowing that my mind controlled everything.

When you succeed be proud of yourself and know that not everyone gets to experience the thrill of success on a consistent basis.

Whether you know it or not, you are a role model for somebody. Watch what you say and know that you're responsible for your actions.

Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry.

Women really do pay attention to a man's glutes. A tight, compact ass is often voted even more desirable than muscular arms and chest. So, if you're lacking, start squatting!

Work harder than anyone you know, and be lucky enough to be blessed with the genetics it takes.

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

When it comes down to it, it really is the little things that count most.

When I tell people that I'm vegan, the first question asked is, 'How do you get enough protein?' This immediately tells me that they are uneducated and know little or nothing about nutrition.

Your health and well being should be your number one priority, nothing else is more important.

You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

But if sedentary behavior makes us fat and physical activity prevents it, shouldn't the "exercise explosion" and the "new fitness revolution" have launched and epidemic of leanness rather than coinciding with an epidemic of obesity?

You have thousands of choices and decisions to make everyday. You have the right to not go to the gym, you the right to follow poor nutritional habits, you have the right to overwork yourself and not get enough sleep. You must accept the fact that your physique has suffered because of the choices that you make everyday.

Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym.

I don't diet and exercise. I eat and train.

Don't worry about side-effects. Most sport supplements have no effect at all. But yet, I would like to highlight three that are scientifically sound and awesome placebos when neatly packaged.

Half-reps may build your ego but they also build half a phyqique.

If you lack motivation, I can't help you with that. That's your problem to solve.

Some are born strong and others are made strong.

It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body.

It's often a razor's edge you'll walk between coaxing adaptation while avoiding exhaustion (or injury). Master this, and you'll unlock the key to continual progress.

Somewhere along the way, I forgot why I'm doing this. I want to be bigger. I want to be better. I want to need no one

The barbells and dumbbells you hold in your hands and the way you use them have stories to tell.

The gym was the one place I had control. I didn’t have to speak, I didn’t have to listen. I just had to push or pull. It was so much simpler, so much more satisfying than life outside. I didn’t have to think. I didn’t have to care. I didn’t have to feel. I simply had to lift.

Training records become a barometer of accomplishment and a roadmap for further progress.

We pay our gym membership for the permission to exercise in the gym, not for the owner(s) of the gym to exercise for us.

Periodization isn't magic--you can't out-periodize your genetics, drug users, or stupidity.

The application of consistent, logical effort, over a prolonged period is the key to reaching your physical muscular potential.

The body is not a reliable friend

The nature of this steel is odd. I found that as I increased its weight little by little, the effect was like a pair of scales: the bulk of muscles placed, as it were, on the other pan increased proportionately, as though the steel had a duty to maintain a strict balance between the two. Little by little, moreover, the properties of my muscles came increasingly to resemble those of the steel. This slow development, I found, was remarkably similar to the process of education, which remodels the brain intellectually by feeding it with progressively more difficult matter. And since there was always the vision of a classical ideal of the body to serve as a model and an ultimate goal, the process closely resembled the classical ideal of education

You can actually program your cells toward better health and fitness.

After a grueling leg workout nothing feels better than a slow, deep massage on your quads.