Lou Ferrigno Quotes

The key to building massive, powerful muscles is to doggedly increase the training weights you use.

I stick to bread-and-butter bodybuilding. I hit my muscles from various angles, work on bringing up any weaknesses, and design workouts that are always challenging and helping me progress.

It's not that I don't want big triceps, but the truth is, I've never had much difficulty adding mass to them.

Mostly, I was into powerlifting when I was in high school. And I just continued to train the same way I was taught - to powerlift. Once I started doing bodybuilding, there were no real differences, just different exercises. A different way of training with more repetitions, but it was still the same lifting of very heavy weights to get stronger.

I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy.

I do cardio. I run. I strength-train using my own body weight. I don't like free weights, because I build muscle easily.

You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.

I was more of a weightlifter.

I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.

I'm not really into weight training.

I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

I do heavy weights in the morning for about an hour, and then I do 45 minutes of higher-volume lifting in the afternoon. My least favorite is the legs... I do quite a few chin-ups and rows. I do mostly old-school lifting with a lot of squats.

I want to bulk up. I'm a skinny guy.

I want to get more muscly.

If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.

My body is one that kind of looks at weights, and then all of a sudden, I have muscle.

I got into bodybuilding very young - I was 13.

In order to pack on the most amount of muscle from your training, you need to train specifically for hypertrophy.

Dropsets overload the muscle with shorter rest periods and increasing volume, which you need to grow.

I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

One set at extreme intensity does the muscle-building job. It must be stressed that the one final, all-out set I do takes me to the very limit of my capabilities. If you feel you can attempt a second set, then you couldn’t have been pulling out all the stops during the first set. It's not pretty, but it works.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

It's tough, you know, when you're thin and you don't put on muscle mass that easily. What you've got to remember is that you really have to eat a lot and you have to work your body out with basic exercises like deadlifts and squats and the bench press - the workouts that are basic in form but work a large group of muscles.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

I don't do heavy weights at all.