If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.
The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.
When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the muscle.
I’m always trying to improve on my overall package. Just try to get a little bit harder and maintain the same muscle quality.
I think it’s an actor’s job, if you can, to keep working and to keep using that muscle. First of all, you’ve got to pay the bills, but it also helps you develop.
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.
The mind is a muscle.
Mohammed al-Qahtani was not alleged to be a leader of the Sept. 11 plot. He was not trained as a pilot. If he was involved, he was one of the ‘muscle’ hijackers.
I’m not going to jump over or muscle people. That’s the way I’ve always played, the only way I know.
I don’t think facing one of your own active pitchers would be a good idea, unless I got super lucky and hit a ball through the middle or something. That would not be good. I’d pull every muscle in my body.
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas’s dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky. It may be around an elbow, a heel, an armpit, a calf muscle, the nape of a neck.
We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.
Do cardio throughout the year at least three days a week for at least 30-40 minutes, whether it be first thing in the morning on an empty stomach or after a post-workout protein shake. Cardio won’t kill your gains as much as you think; you’ll see how much muscle you really have.
I like when a guy wears a T-shirt, and you can see a little curve of the muscle sticking out. That’s sexy!
As singers, we’re always taught to sing forward and place everything in the front of our resonating chambers. Donna Summer always sang in that space and had it naturally. Her muscle memory, the way she was built – she was a natural singer.
We’re from Athens, Alabama. That’s my town. People think it’s Muscle Shoals, but they have no idea. It’s a quiet, sleepy little town, about 45 minutes from Muscle Shoals. It’s really hard to be a band in Athens; there are no venues.
If I’m not going to make the pitch, then so be it. I’m not going to try to manipulate the ball or muscle the ball over the plate where I want it to go.
Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting.
I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I’d get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn’t know everyone was laughing at me.
For a sore throat I take arnica, just a tiny pill dissolved under my tongue. And because your throat is like a muscle, I keep mine warm drinking herbal teas, usually camomile.
People do really well on space missions, but it’s the physiological, the medical stuff, the stuff like radiation, loss of bone mass and muscle mass and density. It’s those things that we need to figure out.
The idea behind resistance training is that you’re basically tearing something and creating a microtrauma in the muscle. When the muscle recovers, it’s going to recover stronger and denser than it was before.
I can remember back to my early tour days when some fellows didn’t think I’d last too long. Nothing physical – they said it was my swing. Some said it was too much of a ‘muscle swing’ to stand the test of time. One fellow predicted I wouldn’t get past 30 out there.
Enzymes catalyze all the reactions of life. They’re what allow you to extract materials and energy from your environment and turn that into muscle and tissue and fat. That’s all done by enzymes. They’re pretty remarkable chemists – they’re even better than Caltech chemists.
Classical ballet is very extreme. You’re doing it six days a week, and it’s a kind of obsession of perfecting a move. So every muscle in your body has been stretched and tightened, stretched and tightened.
My body is one that kind of looks at weights, and then all of a sudden, I have muscle.
That there is as yet no drug for immortality – or, for that matter, for muscle growth in the infirm – does not mean that immortality is theoretically or even technically impossible.
There are so many things that make the moment for a submission. There is timing, muscle memory, a lot of times power. When you commit, you have to have power and technique. It has to be sharp.
Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.
Sometimes you go to a show, and you see someone and think they’re not there right now. They’re performing, but it’s muscle memory. There is no memorising some of the ways we put on a show.
If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
You just can’t muscle your way through some things in life. You just have to keep your head on your shoulders and dance with it as you go.
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.
I’m already a tiny person, so now I’m trying to go to the gym to add muscle. I need it!
Mind is everything. Muscle – pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you’re not relaxed, the camera sees it.
The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.
I have a gym membership, but that’s always been more about muscle building for roles.
I have never pulled a muscle and I don’t see myself as a person who needs to try and stay fit. I just need to play games and you can never replicate that in training.
I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
For some, a perfect body means having muscle mass and fat in proportion to one’s height. For others, it may mean more than just muscle mass and body fat. For me, it’s also about having amazing features.
So I studied a lot with the balloon, and in learning how to sing with other musicians and keep in time – that’s all by touch. A lot of that I feel in my body, and growing up with hearing I have pretty good muscle memory, and I was born with near perfect pitch.
What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you’ve got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.
The biggest shock was the first fight. I didn’t know what to expect. I fought Fujita. At that time, he was one of the most dangerous PRIDE fighters. He was a complete beast and with 130 kilograms of pure muscle.
It’s weird because people think the biggest guys are the biggest eaters, but fat doesn’t expand as much as muscle, so you want someone with a big frame who can expand.
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I’m enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle.
I do cardio. I run. I strength-train using my own body weight. I don’t like free weights, because I build muscle easily.
From middle age on, there’s nothing more vital to your health and weight control than building lean muscle mass, and the only way that happens is with weight training and exercise.
Some ladies like muscle.
I put on muscle really quick.
Rather than saying, ‘I can’t do this,’ ‘Sesame Street’ encourages us to say, ‘I can’t do this… yet!’ That one word changes everything. It emphasizes that your capability isn’t fixed. It highlights the reality that our brain is like a muscle.
Constant tension should be applied to the last five reps of every working set, meaning, do the first 5-6 reps normal tempo, and the last few reps should be held for at least two seconds at the peak of the contraction. This allows your muscles to have more time under tension, and you work different muscle fibers.
Everything I do through the course of my life, every day I do it with my arms, and it means that by using this muscle so much I have changed gradually the state of my muscle, turning my muscle into red fibers.
I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn’t mine.
