Over-Exertion Quotes

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.

I think I train too hard.

People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.

If you overdo something, you end up typecast. You always have to expand.

I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.

The more force used, the less effective it is.

Sometimes I have to be careful not to work out too much because then it makes me so hungry.

I can't take 200 hacks in the cage before the game. Not because I'll get tired, but because I'll hurt myself! I can't do that. I might get injured.

There are days when I don't count sets at all, but then there are some days when I have to realize that I don't want to overwork because I still have an hour of cardio ahead of me or another training session later that day.

Because I'm training so much, I always have a lot of energy. Once I've finished training, I come home and have some down time, and then I realise it's 12:30 A.M. and I should have been in bed 2 hours ago. That can get annoying.

I think burnout is a big thing. If I could do it over again, I'd probably do it the same way, playing other sports when I'm younger. I see a lot of parents really push their younger kids really hard, and you want to see your kids do stuff, but there's a point where they really should have fun at that age.

The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'

I did wreck a running machine once at Seville. I was only supposed to be doing 12 minutes, but I went on for 15, and it suddenly packed in. I had to hang on to the side to make sure I didn't fall.

I'm really troubled by the prevalence of single-sport specializations. I want my kids to do as many things for as long as they can. Specialization is a natural thing that should come later - it shouldn't come for 8-year-olds.

'Drag Race' is sort of like trying to lift weights - like, 50 pounds when you should've been lifting 20.

You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.

Sometimes if I get too aggressive, I get real winded.

I start everything 25 times over.

Triathletes can push themselves quite hard, and I have seen people collapse on a barrier or pass out on a bike.

They say 'you've over trained, you've left it in the gym' is the most common phrase used in boxing but my god it is the truest.

After a lot of laps, you start to get dizzy.

Sometimes it's kind of strange, and it's definitely something I have to work on in the future, but when I'm big favourite in fights, it's almost like I try too hard and try to force things to happen. That always seems to take a bad turn and makes my performance look bad, even if I win.

The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.

I lived and breathed football. Now I have difficulty walking because of that: because I gave much more than I actually had to give.

I was putting forward too much of myself when I was singing.