Jesus Navas Quotes

I think I train too hard.

I danced so intensely, I learned the hard way that sometimes you can push your body too far.

There was one day when I just didn't feel like I could do weight training after my cardio, so I didn't. You do have to know when to stop, or you can hurt yourself.

Triathletes can push themselves quite hard, and I have seen people collapse on a barrier or pass out on a bike.

Most people should not do aerobic exercises for more than 30 minutes, because after that your chances of injury increase.

Sometimes if I get too aggressive, I get real winded.

I can only work out for so long before I start to really feel the effects.

The thing about ballet that I never knew about is that it's one of the most excruciating sports that I've ever been a part of. I say sports because they train constantly, every single day.

Because I'm pushing my body so hard already, the last thing I want to do is have music that's really too strong, in my head.

The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.

Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body.

I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.

When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.

In the past, I was working out too heavy.

My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.

Even when you're being safe, eight hours of choreography makes you look like you've been through a war. It's hard. It's like playing hockey for eight hours.

I benched up to 500 pounds one day and decided that was enough because I knew the risk of a pec tear or a shoulder injury would be catastrophic to my bodybuilding career.

I know my body's limits. I've never enjoyed Spin classes, where they're like, 'Push it further!' I'm like, 'No. If I pull something, I can't work tomorrow.' That's why I gave up Bikram yoga.

Never in my heart did I want to quit, but I did, at the end of 2012, start to wonder when I was getting fractures from running hardly at all; I started thinking, 'Am I asking too much of my body? Is it not going to do this for me anymore?'

Dancing is so brutally taxing on your body.

The pros stretch their bodies to the limit.

My range is from wherever the coaches won't have a heart attack.

Fatigue is one thing. Injuries are another. But if you are just tired because you just practiced - well, I'm not having that.

I would go into practice pushing the body despite any injuries. It's a good thing but a bad thing. It's good because your body is quick to adapt, but it's a bad thing because you are forcing your body, and it can't recover as well.

My whole thing is that guys are working out and getting legs stronger and getting the upper body stronger, and the ligaments just aren't quite able to keep up.