Deborah Bull Quotes

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

I've been doing a lot of strength and stretch work to get stronger.

I lift weights. I'll do a lot of running, a lot of cardio and strengthening. I use my body weight, a TRX sometimes. A lot of it is endurance.

I don't need to do that many weights but every now and then I do the bar, with 25-30 kilos on either side, which amounts to roughly probably my body weight. I lift this up above my head, then drop it and lift it up again.

A lot of fitness is about contractions - you're doing squats, or you're on a bike and your knees are bending but never stretching all the way, so your muscles get strengthened but look short and thick.

I've upped my size tremendously. Forearms strength, shoulder strength has gotten crazy strong. I've been working hard on that.

I did weightlifting and bodyweight-focused exercises such as chin-ups, pull-ups and press-ups with my personal trainer.

I need to improve my physical play and get as big and strong as I can.

I do a lot of free weights in the gym, with lots of squats, lunges and push-pull exercises to help develop strength and power.

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

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.

I do cardio. I run. I strength-train using my own body weight. I don't like free weights, because I build muscle easily.

I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.

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

I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

I used to be a very, very heavy weight lifter. I weighed about 210, 215. And I used to put a lot of weight on my back. I squatted over 500 pounds.

Only recently have I been introduced to the gym and heavy weightlifting and things like that. Before that, when I grew up, I just did a lot of gymnastics and dance. I had more of an athletic background, but nothing where I was in the gym or using any kind of weights.

I like lifting weights. And there is a cardio element to lifting if you're doing it the way I do it.

I am training a lot harder, gym a lot, more muscle, strengthening my back, my legs, my muscles, my weak areas a lot.

All the normal lifts that bodybuilders do, we didn't do them in basketball.

I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.

I do a lot of body weight stuff, power work, with your legs as well. There are weights involved now and again. There is a bit of mixture.

When you push and pull heavy things, your body thinks it's going to die, and so it's like, 'I better get bigger, in case we do that tomorrow.'

I love to work my glutes and triceps and use a lot of free weights.

If you want to really get in shape and get strong, there's these things called 'sleds.' You take a weighted sled, and you just push it across the floor, and then you drag it back. And, basically, if you do that for 20 minutes a day, you'll look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you put enough weight on it, it's the hardest thing in the world.