Essentially, what I do on ‘Supergirl’ is I’m acting out comic vignettes. That is its own muscle to flex, and it is its own skill.
I like to say, ‘Once a dancer, always a dancer.’ In everything – the way you walk, the way you move, the way you talk, the way you sit – everything is just, you’ve been trained a certain way your whole life, so it’s a bit muscle memory.
A politically astute president who understood deeply the economics and politics of corporate tax reform could conceivably muscle Congress toward a reform package that made sense. Trump is not that leader.
We’ve forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we’ve forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved.
In order to pack on the most amount of muscle from your training, you need to train specifically for hypertrophy.
The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone – by trying to act it out.
With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.
Not only do squats build muscle in the quadriceps, hamstrings and calves, they also allow for the release of testosterone and growth hormone providing a highly anabolic environment for all other areas to grow when trained.
Young and wiry pitchers allow for the opportunity to add muscle, which often leads to improved velocity.
Heavy pitchers can have bulky muscle that leads to decreased flexibility or carry extra fat that puts increased stress on the ligaments and tendons.
I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense.
Dropsets overload the muscle with shorter rest periods and increasing volume, which you need to grow.
I pretty much spend most of my time in the gym bulking up and staying fit and putting muscle on so I can play the part of Luke Cage, but I’ve never been a gym rat.
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.
People’s brains work differently. The brain is like a muscle and you have to train it, keep it active, keep active in races. I notice if I haven’t raced for a while. It’s hard to see things clearly so you have to relearn that.
As exercise is necessary to the development of physical muscle, so development of the moral nature is accomplished through temptation. The soul being given choice, may exercise it in whatever direction it chooses, for it learns just as well by its mistakes as by right action in the first place, perhaps even better.
Vin Diesel is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I’ve ever had. The most attractive thing about Vin is his brain. That’s his most attractive muscle.
I’d kind of like to have a classic old muscle car. I think that would be fun.
During our journey, we did weight lifting, squats, and dead lifts to regenerate the bone density. Luckily, my muscle mass and bone density did not alter. Our workout was so rigorous.
If you can get to a gym before you have to get to work, chances are you’re going to succeed in your fitness plan. You’ve banked that muscle before most people are even awake.
The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.
When you’re out shopping, try to calculate the discount of something in the sales, or work out how much a bill in a restaurant will come to. Your brain is just like any other muscle – you have to train it to make it work faster.
I had problems growing up. I had a sudden growth spurt at 15 or 16, and I got a lot of injuries as a result. I gained all this muscle, and my bones couldn’t cope. I used to get so tired.
One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.
My personal trainer suggested paleo to build muscle while staying lean, and it’s one of the first plans that’s worked for me.
I’m an example of someone that’s got a big physique but doesn’t touch any weights. I used to, but I realized when I used to touch weights I’d get a lot of soreness and mobility issues, so I’d get up and my shoulder would be hurting, not only the muscle but around the joint.
You can muscle your way to the top as long as you’re part of the production, which I am. I’m knitted into the money, so it’s very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.
For me, muscle cars are a tribute to American ingenuity.
If you can build a muscle, you can build a mindset.
I grew up playing rugby and I kind of never lost the muscle size.
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
I did want to tone up my arms. Mine have always been lean but I’ve never had any muscle tone with it because I never exercised.
Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.
But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It’s like anything else. It’s a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
I’ve never been much of a trash-talker, and it probably goes back to playing driveway basketball when I was 12. It’s never worked out for me. I’ve never flexed that muscle! It’s not my style.
Vocally, it’s important to sing every day. It’s a muscle, and you have to keep it in shape.
I love improv. ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love,’ the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn’t exercised in a really long time.
I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heavy workouts. That’s stayed in my muscle memory. I feel horrible when I feel my jeans are getting tight. Workouts peace me out.
Sometimes it’s hard to get people to take me seriously as an actor when they just see me as this WWE muscle head.
I don’t know what the hell the future brings. If I did, I would play the lotto and win the mega millions and buy toy cars, real muscle cars, sneakers, and art.
Any time you can get a muscle car back, it’s a good thing.
Television, for me, is great because I love to act, every day. I love to work that muscle. I love to learn, and I love to be able to just do what I love. It’s when I’m at my best. So, I love TV for that reason because it’s every day.
One of the things I found as a dancer is that you’re trying to perfect your body but also protect it and keep it injury-free. When you work against your own weight, you’re still building lean muscle and bone density, but you’re in a safer zone.
The artwork on my packaging was something I painstakingly micro-managed – for example, I treat it like a tattoo, taking into consideration the muscle structure and seeing were the line lands on the existing body.
But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts – that is, the meat of the animal itself – should not cause any risk to human health.
Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.
Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
For ‘Rocky II,’ I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.
Acting is a growing tick muscle. I really believe that it’s similar to being a musician in that the more you practice it in any capacity, as much as you practice doing it every day, the better you get.
If one tries to expose the Harvey Weinsteins of Bollywood, some very big empires and icons will fall down. My nephew was a victim of one of those. But who will fight their muscle? You need many Kangana Ranauts for that.
I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That’s much sexier than when a man uses muscle.
Games are often won or lost on the free-throw line. This isn’t about slick moves or great skills. It’s about practice, muscle memory, and being able to keep a cool head under pressure.
I was onstage one night and was singing. I hit one note, and I just doubled over. It was like being punched hard in the back. I couldn’t put my back up on the plane seat because of the pain. I got massages, thinking it was muscle spasms. The doctor told me at the time that it was my pancreas. I didn’t even know.
A strained hamstring is a muscle tear and very easy to take care of with proper therapy. The greatest problem for a sprinter coming back from a hamstring injury is getting yourself to a point where you are confident mentally that all the muscles are going to be firing.
