John Little > Quotes

“1. All exercises should start from a pre-stretched position. For a muscle to contract maximally it must start in a fully extended position in which the muscle actually involved is being mildly stretched.”
― John Little, High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way

“Si corre un pericolo non da poco quando si sta troppo vicino al fiume di pensieri di un'altra persona, perchè più forte è la corrente e più è facile caderci dentro e venire trascinati lontano da sè stessi.”
― John Little, Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“That aspect of reality of most central concern and importance to human beings is, of course, human beings. And in order to survive and succeed in his fullest capacity as a human being, man must be able to identify his own nature (including his means of knowledge) as well as the nature of the world (or universe) in which he acts.”
― John Little, High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way

“The principle of identity states that everything that exists (entities and their actions, qualities, attributes, and relationships) has an identity, a nature: that a thing is what it is and can be nothing else; or as Aristotle first posited it, “A is A.” The principle of identity put into action affects the Law of Causality, or “cause-and-effect,” which states that an entity can act only in accord with its nature and cannot act otherwise—which is why a rock cannot fly, a bird cannot conceptualize, and a muscle cannot grow without the imposition of the requisite stimulus.”
― John Little, High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way

“And, remember, fundamentally a thing is what it is; we live in a universe where everything—including a human mind and body—has a specific, clear-cut identity and can be nothing else. A human being is not a dog, a cat, a bird, a fish, a computer chip, or a stream of photons—“A is A” and man is man.”
― John Little, High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way

“To settle for anything less than certainty about the truth of the ideas guiding you in the pursuit of your goals would be to leave your life literally to chance.”
― John Little, High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way

“We evolved as an organism that had to expend energy to acquire energy. This was the work-based way by which we acquired food and shelter to survive. It required a minimal level of activity, with intermittent high levels of muscular exertion and intensity. A balance was struck between the catabolic state that was a by-product of the exertion necessary to sustain ourselves and the anabolic state of being able to rest and recoup the energy required to obtain the nutrition needed to fuel the activities involved in our survival.”
― John Little

“Aristotle (credited as the founder of logic) stated that the whole of logic is predicated on the Law of Non-Contradiction, that a thing is what it is and cannot be something else at the same time and in the same respect. In other words a muscle is a muscle—with its own distinct identity and qualities—it is not a mind, despite one popular bodybuilding “principle” of “muscle confusion.” Given that the principle of identity applied to human muscle tissue reveals that it cannot reason or properly use the principles of thought, one must wonder then how it might become confused.”
― John Little, High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way