T.J. Dillashaw Quotes

I'm used to big boys. I train with big boys all the time.

I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.

We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot of running. I enjoyed the variety.

Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.

I love the chance to train with someone like Mark Twight.

I work out every day, and I challenge myself. I've got a couple of friends who do CrossFit; I'm not a huge CrossFit guy, but I love the challenge.

Tasha Steelz, I've watched a few of her training videos, and she is super athletic.

The one thing I like to do is challenge my body, so I just transition between a bunch of different workouts all the time.

I'm a big believer in a balance of workouts - a well-balanced workout plan. Part of it is cardio, part strength training and then flexibility. You really need all three.

The Tae-Bo guy has a good body on him. I believe in evolution as far as lifting and training and building muscle. I was doing functional movement before CrossFit was ever a thing. I was playing football, doing platform lifts, all kinds of wacky kettle-bell stuff before kettle bells were kettle bells.

The first time I joined the gym was during the Miss Sri Lanka pageant in 2006. Then, I went for the Miss Universe contest where I was exposed to girls who were very fit for their age. They could have joined the Olympics. They were doing crazy exercises.

I'm a big runner, and I like to lift heavy. I'm not one for those little two-pound dumbbells - my goal is to be super-muscular in my 40s.

Mostly, I was into powerlifting when I was in high school. And I just continued to train the same way I was taught - to powerlift. Once I started doing bodybuilding, there were no real differences, just different exercises. A different way of training with more repetitions, but it was still the same lifting of very heavy weights to get stronger.

My fitness instructor helped me with strength training, muscle building, and toning.

I've always worked out very hard, very intensely, with a lot of free weights.

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

I think it is easier for thinner people to build on a frame once you get lean muscle. I get bored lifting weights at the gym, and it isn't enough as your body becomes stiff. So I train in different ways such as core training, cardio with weights, playing sports such as tennis, cycling, swimming and running 10 km once a week.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that?

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.

The real victims of men are other men.

I generally circuit train and do Pilates.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?