Strength Development Quotes

Everybody always asks me, 'How much can you bench?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I don't lift weights.' Now that I'm in college, we lift weights every once in a while, but not maxing out. We do things with a weight vest on... That surprises people, too, how strong you can get by just basically lifting your body all the time.

Building strength is very important, but there are many ways to do that.

When I lifted weights, I didn't lift just to maintain my muscle tone. I lifted to increase what I already had, to push to a new limit. Every time I worked, I was getting a little better. I kept moving that limit back and back. Every time I walked out of the gym, I was a little better than when I walked in.

People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.

Working on a weakness within a strength zone will always produce positive results. Working on a weakness outside of the strength zone will not.

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.

They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will find no other exercise more valuable in the cultivation of faculties which will help him to success in agility, strength, determination, coolness, and quick exercise of judgement.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage

If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.

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.

It's important to work slowly and intelligently in your strength work before revving up the intensity. Start with deep diaphragmatic breathing to reengage and reconnect with your abdominals.

Your strengths have to stand out. Your strengths have to be perfected.

If I want a kid to be good at a front headlock - which, if you're gonna wrestle at a high level, you need a good front headlock - I'm gonna put him in there 50 times in that practice.