Weightlifting Quotes (22 quotes)

“Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.”
― Ronnie Coleman

tags: fitness, motivation, the-unbelievable, weightlifting

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“Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.”
― Ryan Lilly

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“You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few important exercises, movements that train the whole body as a system, not as a collection of separate body parts. The problem with the programs advocated by all the national exercise organizations is that they fail to recognize this basic principle: the body best adapts as a whole organism to stress applied to the whole organism. The more stress that can be applied to as much of the body at one time as possible, the more effective and productive the adaptation will be.”
― Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training

tags: exercise, fitness, strength, weightlifting

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“Some are born strong and others are made strong.”
― J.R. Rim, Better to be able to love than to be loveable

tags: bodybuilding, born-or-made, born-to-win, brain-training, built, lifting-weights, strength, strong, train-to-win, training, weightlifting, win-to-win

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“The barbells and dumbbells you hold in your hands and the way you use them have stories to tell.”
― Craig Cecil, Bodybuilding: From Heavy Duty to SuperSlow

tags: bodybuilding, weight-training, weightlifting

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“Do not fear what you cannot lift, fear that which can lift you.”
― Uziel Matos Lima

tags: fear, inspirational, weight-lifting, weightlifting

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“Just keeping yourself interested and motivated to train over a long period of time is often the biggest hurdle and one of the biggest factors for success in building sustainable muscle.”
― Craig Cecil, Bodybuilding: From Heavy Duty to SuperSlow

tags: bodybuilding, weight-training, weightlifting

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“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“...full range of motion, multi-joint exercises are
not supposed to isolate any one muscle. We use them precisely because they don't. We want them
to work lots of muscles through a long range of motion. We like it when some muscles are called
into function as other muscles drop out of function, and when muscles change function during
the exercise. This is because we are training for strength. We are concerned with improving the
functional motion around a joint. We are not just concerned about our "favorite muscles." We
do not have favorite muscles.”
― Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training

tags: barbell, weightlifting

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“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.”
― Craig Cecil, Bodybuilding: From Heavy Duty to SuperSlow

tags: bodybuilding, weight-training, weightlifting

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“Training records become a barometer of accomplishment and a roadmap for further progress.”
― Craig Cecil, Bodybuilding: From Heavy Duty to SuperSlow

tags: bodybuilding, weight-training, weightlifting

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“Periodization isn't magic--you can't out-periodize your genetics, drug users, or stupidity.”
― Craig Cecil, Bodybuilding: From Heavy Duty to SuperSlow

tags: bodybuilding, weight-training, weightlifting

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“According to the Stanford encyclopedia of Philosophy, Socrates never wore shoes, could bench twice his weight, and was impervious to the effects of alcohol and cold. He did not care for fashion and his gait was that of one who truly did not give a shit.”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

tags: alcohol, ancient-greece, cold, greece, lifting, philosopher, philosophy, shoes, socrates, weightlifting

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“~In motivating people, YOU've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved~”
― Rupert Murdoch

tags: crossfit, exercise-motivation, fitness, gym, inspired-soul, martial-arts, mma-training, motivation, motivational-speaker, sports-inspirational, training-skills, ufc, weightlifting

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“I get better everyday, everyday I get better.”
― Joseph C. Reyes, Private Sessions: and the Sweaty Sexy Stories Behind the Sprawling Walls of the World's Most Luxurious Gym

tags: adult-contemporary, adult-fiction, adult-humor, adult-humour, humor, humorous, humour, humourous-situations, weight-lifting, weight-loss, weight-loss-programs, weight-loss-self-help, weightlifting, weightloss

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“Some people would fall in or out of love with you if you lose or gain a few kilos.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: crush, dating, dieting, exercise, exercising, gym, love, relationships, weight-loss, weightlifting

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“Brainless wasn't bad. Today, brainless was right up her alley. This world of grunts and clanking iron, the same tasks repeated mindlessly until failure, Mitzi loved it the moment she'd stepped through the door of the weight room. The Sisyphean repetition of lifting and lowering. Nothing represented life better than this endless losing battle against gravity. The grunts and cries that conveyed so much more than words ever could.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, The Invention of Sound

tags: weightlifting

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“All the athletic exercises in the world are no power to the individual unless he compel those bars and dumbbells to yield to him and strengthen muscle; the power for which he himself pays in effort.”
― William George Jordan, The Majesty of Calmness

tags: weightlifting

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“Don't train to GET a better body, train to BE a better body.”
― Nate Hamon

tags: body, dysmorphia, fitness, gym, healthy-lifestyle, image-issues, mental-health, training, weightlifting, wellbeing

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“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.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: bodybuilders, bodybuilding, exercising, fitness, gym, join-gym, new-year-s-resolutions, weight-loss, weightlifters, weightlifting

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“Don't fight your biology. Get out of your own way and make all your activity align with the same goal. Once you've achieved that goal - then you can pivot and work toward something else.”
― K Black, Tactical Barbell: Mass Protocol

tags: exercise, fitness, success, weightlifting

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“There is no reason to be alive if you can't do deadlift.”
― Jon Pall Sigmarsson

tags: exercise-motivation, fitness, fitness-inspiration, motivational, weight-training, weightlifting

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