Eric Ripert Quotes

For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.

Obviously, getting stronger is the key, and knowing how to use my body, knowing what to expect.

I work on my body tremendously to be able to withstand whatever is thrown my way.

If you can do a lot of pull-ups, you don't just appear to be strong. You are strong.

With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself.

I think the two most important parts of any athlete's workouts are his leg workouts and his core training.

I train three, four, five times a week, protein six times a day, resistance training for at least 45 minutes... it's so very boring. It's really painful. It's laborious.

I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

I want to see how far I can train. I have to see how far my body will go.

I travel and climb about eight months a year. That's pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, gym climbing, and specific strength training in a effort to get stronger for climbing.

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.

I can take just about anyone and make them physically strong.

There's nothing comparable to as 'in shape' as a professional dancer. You'd have to train eight hours a day for that.

I think offensive linemen generally took the weight room and the workouts much more seriously, because we saw that it was a vital part of our training. We needed to be big and strong, and our muscles needed to be in good shape to handle the beatings.

Good conditioning helps you prepare your muscles, so I make sure I'm always strict with my conditioning.

I do track, I run football fields, I run hills. I run until you feel like you can't run any more. I do the pool, I do anything that takes my body to the limit.

I am training a lot harder, gym a lot, more muscle, strengthening my back, my legs, my muscles, my weak areas a lot.

My back and shoulders are my strengths. They are well-toned and do not require too much of maintenance.

Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.

For Buffon, I hear he trains less on the field, and he is more focused on keeping his muscles strong.

I knew I wasn't soft. I knew I could play on this level and I knew that being in the paint was just a physical position that I wasn't strong enough for. I wanted to get myself strong enough where I could be dominant down there.

I have some muscle on me where I can take those hits.