Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I’ve starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
I think, primarily, acting is like working out a muscle; the more you get to do it, the bigger that muscle gets.
In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality, a lot of getaway drivers would actually choose, like, commuter cars and find a way to blend into freeway traffic as quickly as possible.
I kind of stumbled into this. I used to do karate and then I started reading muscle magazines. Eventually, I began training and competing.
The south is very focused on family… the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.
Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
I give special treatment to every single muscle in my body.
Your artistry is a muscle that needs to be exercised, so if all you are doing is auditioning, you’ll never get the satisfaction of fulfilling the need to play the part.
Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It’s an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.
When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I’m probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle – a lot of muscle in high school.
If you are looking to gain muscle, you should still eat clean and healthy. Protein and vegetables should still be your staples, but starchy carbs can also play a frequent role in your meals. You must also be in a calorie surplus.
What I do is I get the sheet music and I put it out for myself and then I use a visual tuner to go through each note individually. And every time I make a mistake, I start the song over again, so I use the muscle memory of intervals and then watching that tuner, and then a lot of repetition.
One-legged squats are amazing for the glutes, so I’ve actually managed to change the shape of my bum by building up the bits of muscle.
One of the difficulties for me is that I’m naturally very skinny, so the problem that I have is trying to keep weight on, put weight on. I have to eat six, seven times a day, and I have to have a lot of carbohydrates to try and fatten me up so I have something to turn into muscle.
I have a pretty high metabolism rate. So I tend to lose muscle mass if I am not working out.
The first song on my first album is not a song – it’s a guitar solo! It’s called ‘Frenzy,’ and it’s pretty much nonstop maniacal guitar playing. I had just turned 19, and I had some serious muscle then.
Freedom is a muscle… you have to exercise it.
We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.
Roc Nation has an army. I’m happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
Brock Lesnar was a big guy: he’s at 280 when he fights. When fighting him, you can have a bit of that extra muscle because you don’t want to be thrown around like you’re nothing.
I have nice muscle tone in my arms. I can’t really take credit for it, though – all the members of my family do. A lot of arm wrestling happened in our family growing up!
Children love this idea that their brain is like a muscle that gets stronger as they use it.
I think self-discipline is something, it’s like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.
Every night in ‘Hairspray’ we will be doing a vocal warmup, so I hope that will improve the muscles. It is a muscle, and we’ve not been using it – anybody that is on stage, that is.
I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that’s my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I’ve finished a movie but don’t tell anyone.
After a weigh-in, you drink and put on the pounds. But it’s just fluid, not muscle, so you get in the ring and feel flat.
It’s funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but its a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition.
If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what’s happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
When you are just muscle, you end up being gaunt in the face, and that makes you look older by 5 or 10 years. I don’t think of getting older as looking better or worse; it’s just different. You change, and that’s OK.
Protein is crucial to supplying muscle tissue with the building blocks it needs for its growth.
Once your body is in workout-mode, a few days off won’t hurt. Muscle memory is magical. If you work out consistently, you can afford to miss a few sessions and your body will gladly pick up where you left off.
Yoga changed my body 100 percent. It tones everything and leans you out. Dancer’s pose is amazing. It works every muscle!
I’m always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don’t need to worry about that – that’s always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.
We all go to the gym, and we’re thinking about how we look and what we’re eating, but our brain is a muscle, and you have to train it!
I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats – I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
Hundreds of ballplayers have performed well after Tommy John surgery, in which an elbow ligament is replaced by material from elsewhere on the body. More and more, athletes will perform with a bit of this or a bit of that in a joint or muscle.
To play a Punjabi guy in ‘Rab se Sohna Isshq,’ I had to put on muscle.
There are athletes out there trying to get every advantage they can, including things like muscle and low-fat percentages. I feel if I’m the better fighter, I’m the better fighter.
Our military doesn’t defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.
I’ve found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it’s percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it.
Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others – it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.
Look, my body fat percentage has maybe gone up a percent or two, but it’s not gone up that much at all. I would say a lot of it has been attributed to muscle. It’s a lot of muscle.
Comedy is something that I’m definitely looking to get into. I had a little taste of it and I do intend on going to classes for it because I think it’s a different muscle, and it’s hard to find female comedians.
The key to building long muscle as you swim is stretching arms far ahead of you in the water, sort of like a swan.
I’m a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she’s my muscle.
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
See, I hold myself through my own muscle strength. That is why I’m built like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
A lot is made of my injuries and yes, I’ve had niggles and muscle problems. Some managers haven’t picked me, and my form has played a part at times as well.
I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don’t hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in.
I’m a big fan of rituals in general because I’m a firm believer in muscle memory.
Nobody comes back from a serious injury and is the same after a month or even three months. You should play in the reserves; you get your muscle back and regain your match rhythm. Psychologically, you need to build your confidence back up and you hope there are no complications. Even in a settled side, it’s hard.
As we age, we lose our muscle tone. Thats how we gain weight.
One of the difficulties for me is that I’m naturally very skinny, so the problem that I have is trying to keep weight on, put weight on. I have to eat six, seven times a day, and I have to have a lot of carbohydrates to try and fatten me up so I have something to turn into muscle.
What’s interesting is a lot of the older music when we start performing it, it acts a lot like muscle memory. It’s kind of like riding a bike. For me as a singer, I just had to remember like what part of my face I sang that into.
I like the old-school muscle cars.
I think that our personalities and our souls have so much – we’re so much more than just blood vessels and bone and muscle.
The workouts have positively impacted the astronauts’ bones and muscles, and they are coming back in really good shape. But some are losing bone and muscle but not as much as we saw in the early days.
