"Get over it - If you have a bad workout or run a bad race, allow yourself exactly 1 hour to stew about it-then move on."
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"I drink coconut water before my workouts. It has just the right amount of calories and electrolytes to get me going. My body has actually started craving it."
"Explore your limits and get to know yourself. You'll never feel more real than after the hardest workout, the longest run, the toughest week, or the best race of your life. Constantly make your own standards tougher."
"On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means."
"I'd like to get into some sort of workout regimen so I can properly be healthy and exercise like a normal human being. I seem to not do that... ever."
"What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know."
"Working out and working as an actor have gone hand in hand—I always feel more prepared if I know I have done a workout. It gives me confidence—and peace of mind."
"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."
"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."
"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it."
"Learn it all, then forget it all."
"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."
"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
"Make sure you are doing something you love to do when working out. Nobody likes to work, so when you do choose a workout, make it something you enjoy doing. You won't stick with it if you hate it and if it feels like work. Find something fun."
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."
"Feeling good, the workout, building your muscles, let your blood flow right and eating the right type of food. That's what I care about."
"Last time I checked, lifting theory has a PR of zero."
"There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it."
"You need to be dedicated to your workout, whatever you choose."
"Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now."