Tim Kennedy Quotes

I've been doing a lot of deadlifting and squatting for overall strength.

I'm freakishly good at squatting.

I've always wanted to be the strongest in my school, in my class, everywhere. I don't care if I'm in year seven, I wanted to be the strongest in the school.

In 1959 I had broken the bench press record by lifting 565 pounds, and I could lift 715 pounds from a squat.

I lift pretty heavy for my body weight, and I don't do any of that girly stuff like cardio or any light weights. I go really heavy, and that intimidates some guys. I enjoy that.

I used to be known as one of the strongest guys on the planet.

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

I can squat 405. I'm proud of that - that's one of my favorites.

I was a personal trainer for about a decade. I competed in powerlifting, and I did a bodybuilding competition. I was heavily entrenched in the personal training world.

I lift quite heavy weights, but unfortunately no one believes me.

The true measure of strength is through a squat and deadlift.

My main goal is to become the most successful weightlifter in history.

I have always maintained you should be able to bench press and deadlift at least twice your body weight.

I'm used to big boys. I train with big boys all the time.

Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that?

When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business.

I'm not fond of crunches or lunges, but I do them anyway because I do see results. For me it's about being fit and staying healthy more than anything else.

I like to be strong.

In 2010, I was ranked top 50 in the deadlift in three different weight classes, and I won my first natural bodybuilding competition.

I used to be a very, very heavy weight lifter. I weighed about 210, 215. And I used to put a lot of weight on my back. I squatted over 500 pounds.

I work out every day - and my daily routine is a mix of functional and strength training.

The importance of lifting weights is it kind of makes me who I am.

I like lifting weights. And there is a cardio element to lifting if you're doing it the way I do it.

I've picked up a lot of muscle weight. I have to be a physically strong guy.

I never started bodybuilding because I thought I'm not big enough, I'm not strong enough.