You have to challenge yourself and your muscles. When you are really regimented, it’s the same over and over and you start to get comfortable. Switching up the style of training works your muscles differently.
Listening to music and lyrics and watching movies, I think, uses a lot of the same muscles we use in reading and experiencing poetry – and yet we somehow forget that we have those when it comes to sitting down with a book of poems.
I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.
Dancers, you know, they have pain everywhere: ankles in the morning, or back or neck or ribs or knees or the muscles. You are never free of pain, you know.
I’m excited to flex my Broadway muscles – it keeps you alive as an actor.
Running is my solo time; working my muscles outside in fresh air is therapeutic.
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Stretching before and after every workout keeps muscles supple and helps elongate the lines of a ballerina’s limbs.
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.
The weight really started falling off, and I could see my muscles. It was awesome.
I don’t believe in the concept of working out rigorously to pump muscles. It may be effective, but when you stop working out, it comes back to square one.
The workout regimen I follow works for each body part like arms, legs, core muscles, biceps and triceps. And, I work out daily for nearly one and a half hours.
The squat is ideal for building strength in the glutes, perhaps the most powerful collection of muscles in our bodies.
Oh, there’s a lot of breaks in our sport. Strained muscles, breaks, tears. I’ve seen teeth fly out before mouth guards were compulsory. Feet fractures are quite common, cheeks, faces, jaws, legs.
Some people don’t believe in cold. I’ve gotten so used to it that I love it… and doing those things to get my muscles to bounce back and recover have been very beneficial for the longevity of my career.
All the scars on my body, all the bumps and bruises, all the muscles – that is a story of everything I have done. And it’s not just my story. My ancestors who came before me gave me this vessel to sculpt and mold.
Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It’s a great profession if it’s right for you, but it’s memorizing the bones and the muscles, and I am terrible at stuff like that. Also, there’s a lot of blood and gore involved.
Everybody is looking for that chiseled guy. Just because they have a lot of muscles, they think he’s the strongest guy out there, this and that. Lucky for me, the skills pay the bills.
Take a tip from racewalkers and marathoners, and strengthen your stride with resistance exercises. By training your walking muscles, you’ll have more power to pick up the pace.
I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn’t feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you’re doing a play you’re using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.
I hate Botox, but a fabulous-looking friend of mine told me her secret was this gadget that uses electrical impulses to tone your facial muscles. It works!
Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
Pilates makes you feel good because you’re doing something that’s good for your body, and you start seeing it. It elongates the muscles.
My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.
Muscles are fleeting. Bodies give out. But integrity, honor? The confidence to be oneself, to follow one’s heart? The compassionate drive to help others, even at great risk? That’s strength.
I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.
When you’re hypermobile, it’s easy to think your muscles are flexible, but your flexibility is really around your joints and not your muscles.
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it’s not something you have to do when you’re preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games – you just do it. You’re more inclined to eat healthier because it’s better for your muscles.
Strong shoulders will do more than just make everyday tasks easier. By developing the muscles of the upper body, you’ll get sexy-looking shoulders and create a ‘V’ silhouette that makes your hips and waist appear slimmer.
I need to show my toned muscles because I will be always in Lord Shiva’s look and people will get to see my bare body.
When you’re on TV, you’re looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it’s on TV, I’ve already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles.
I’m trying not to overwork the muscles because I’m thinking about accomplishing this great feat.
It’s just as important to work on the little muscle groups as well as the big muscle groups. People, when they train, go to gyms. I call them ‘nightclub bodies’ – ginormous up top, and legs are little sticks. You see a lot of people, and they forget you can’t leave the little muscles behind.
The variety and flexibility of ClassPass is limitless, ensuring that you’ll never get bored, and neither will your muscles.
A cardio workout increases blood flow and acts as a filter system. It brings nutrients like oxygen, protein, and iron to the muscles that you’ve been training and helps them recover faster.
Well, being fit is not about flaunting muscles or biceps. Being fit is about flexibility and fit is about flexibility and body composition.
If you do a character that resonates enough, people are always going to see you as that character. It will just be up to me to make choices where I can flex other muscles.
Running is a way for me to relax. With one hour of intense running, I can get a lot of physical exercise. I can relax my body. I feel a tension in my muscles when I don’t run. In that sense, I need to get out a few times a week in order to do my work as a scientist, which involves a lot of sitting still.
Growing up, and the way that the media portrays, you’re supposed to look a certain way. Muscles aren’t beautiful. Muscles aren’t feminine.
Whenever a gentle pressure is used to make a slight change in leg posture, the neck muscles react immediately. Conversely, when the therapist helps one to ‘release’ the neck muscles, it is amazing to see quite pronounced movements for instance of the toes, even when one is lying on a couch.
I try not to focus on taking things away; I try to add in nutrient-rich foods into the things I eat. I don’t say, ‘I’m going to take out the fat.’ I say, ‘What can I add in to make my muscles work more? What can I add into this that will give me the vitamins I need?’ It feels luxurious!
When I first started working with Victoria’s Secret, I wanted to get stronger. That was something I wanted to build on and really be as strong and powerful as I could be. Working with Victoria’s Secret, I started really thinking about my body and my muscles.
But I think if you do have a job that has quite a few elements to it, then it does mean you get to flex different muscles and different parts of your brain, which I do like.
You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise.
I have been blessed with strong leg muscles, and dancing really exercises one’s legs.
I don’t have big muscles.
Maybe I’m a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
