Harley Pasternak Quotes

I began bodybuilding shortly after I watched a couple friends compete at a state show and thought it would be cool to try.

I took my weight training to a new level.

When I was 10, I asked my parents for a set of weights. I had my Charles Atlas book to go along with that. Every time we went to the grocery store, I'd rush to the magazine area and read the ones with Arnold Schwarzenegger and all those guys on the covers: 'Pumping Iron,' 'Muscle and Fitness,' 'Muscle Builder by Joe Weider.'

When I was 7 or 8, I'd go to bodybuilding shows with my family because they had friends who were into it, and it became something I wanted to do one day. I wanted to look big and strong.

I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heavy workouts. That's stayed in my muscle memory. I feel horrible when I feel my jeans are getting tight. Workouts peace me out.

I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

I was more of a weightlifter.

I don't lift weights.

I'm actually going to the gym, working on getting not fatter, just a bit bulkier.

Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.

I want to do an action movie where they say, 'Go the gym and get ripped like Linda Hamilton.'

If I was young again and wanted to be a professional wrestler, first thing I'd do is get jacked all to hell is what I'd do.

I started messing around in my teen years but didn't really begin training properly until the age of 21. I did a lot of reading prior to that - Mike Mentzer, Arthur Jones and all other notable bodybuilding authors - and just came up with a routine that worked for me.

I started training when I was 15.

I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.

I'm not really into weight training.

And then once in Australia, I really hit the weights hard.

I have a personal trainer who I work out with. She's amazing and as well as making sure I do loads of sit-ups and press-ups, she also keeps an eye on what I eat.

For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit 'X-Men' because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong.

I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.

I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'

I train hard Monday to Friday. I'll do weights and cardio in the gym most mornings and do a spinning class, too.

As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.

I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.