Joseph Parker Quotes

And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody's gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights.

I've gotten more buff.

Lifting is what's made me stronger and made me look better. Not only does it burn fat amazingly - and I think it's really honed my body - it's also given me the strength in the ring to lift girls up. I can literally lift anything on my shoulders.

The offseason is when you try to gain strength. You have 162 games during the year, so you've got to pick and choose the times work out.

I wasn't instructed to do any special training for 'Hawkgirl,' but I had started boxing a few weeks prior and stuck with that for several months leading up to the start of production.

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.

There's a very big difference between being fit and being fight fit. Sparring is the only way to get fight fit. It's a very important part of boxing and something that I do as regularly as possible.

If I need to bulk up for a role, I will do more weights. If I need to slim down for something, I will do more cardio. That's usually how it goes.

I do loads of squats with weights. It's great for your bum and legs.

I lift weights in the offseason about four times a week; during the season, I'll lift three times a week. The weight training is key because most guys come in during the summertime as strong as they are going to get, and they fizzle down as the year starts.

No matter how much cardio you do - running or biking or whatever - it's never the same as being in the ring.

I used to do too much weight training years ago. You probably wouldn't see it on me but I probably had a bit too much muscle.

In year seven and eight I was very small, but I was muscular. Year nine, ten and eleven I got massive. I was in the gym every day, even at lunchtime and break times. I was thinking about boxing at that time but didn't think I would actually do it.

But I am a big welterweight so I can see why people think that I would look to move up the weights.

I do some weightlifting, a lot of different weight stuff, strength and conditioning stuff, a little bit of everything.

I've lifted weights ever since I was a teenager, but I started going more towards the Olympic weightlifting style, which is clean and jerk.

I can lift weights every day and I'm not going to look huge, but it's good to get in the weight room every now and then.

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.

I don't think you can push your body too far. Just do the basic exercises, deadlifts, squats, presses. The best times that you have with it will be when you get older: you're not all broken down like other people.

I keep 10-pound dumbbells in my dressing room. It's nice to do before a show to get your muscles to wake up.

Whether it's in the weight room or extra stretching, you never know when you're going to need that little extra oomph.

I'm serious, I don't stay in the gym each day like my opponents.

I have a trainer. I love to do regular weight training, and I love to do boxing.