Poliana Okimoto Quotes

I'm a great swimmer, probably due to the size of my feet.

I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.

As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.

I can't surf, so I swim. It's the best workout I've ever known because it works your entire body.

A big upper body is not a great thing for tennis, and for me, flexibility is important.

Dancing is so brutally taxing on your body.

There's a lot to being a weightlifter. People think it's all brute strength. But it takes strength, quickness, flexibility, and technique. And it can cause a lot of stress.

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.

I swim a lot. I swim most days.

For me, the reason I keep working out and want to get bigger and focus on staying fit is because when you do fall it's easier to tighten up and not get hurt. I also wrestle, and that helps me a lot with taking a fall. A lot of what I do at the end of they day are things that will help me to not get hurt.

I think swimming's hard because I can't float.

A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.

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.

All physical activity begins with the body's core. I maintain the strength in my core so that I can jump, run, start, stop, and accelerate at the highest levels.

My biggest problem was to get the coaches to understand that I was a runner, and I wanted to prepare myself based upon the calisthenics I did and get myself ready. For example, I used my forearm when I ran the ball, so I didn't want to do pushups because I wanted my forearms to heal.

I train, for me, very smartly. I don't train heavy, I do a lot of isometrics.

In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.

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.

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.

No event in strongman competitions lasts longer than 40 seconds, so by swimming in fast bursts, my body is conditioned for the level of speed and power it needs.

I have to improve on my speed endurance, and I am working on it.

With racing, there's not one thing you need to be really strong at, it's a combination. You need a good base of cardio, good core, good neck strength. I think core and neck are the most important, but it's certainly not my favourite. Neck training is pretty boring.

To me, it's not all about how much weight you can lift in the weight room. It's how you can manipulate weight in the ring.

The key to building long muscle as you swim is stretching arms far ahead of you in the water, sort of like a swan.