David Kirsch Quotes

If your goal is to look different, you'll see results faster with strength training than with cardio alone.

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.

Everybody always asks me, 'How much can you bench?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I don't lift weights.' Now that I'm in college, we lift weights every once in a while, but not maxing out. We do things with a weight vest on... That surprises people, too, how strong you can get by just basically lifting your body all the time.

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

I don't lift weights. I do fitness exercises to stay strong.

I don't need to do that many weights but every now and then I do the bar, with 25-30 kilos on either side, which amounts to roughly probably my body weight. I lift this up above my head, then drop it and lift it up again.

I did weightlifting and bodyweight-focused exercises such as chin-ups, pull-ups and press-ups with my personal trainer.

I do a lot of free weights in the gym, with lots of squats, lunges and push-pull exercises to help develop strength and power.

I think CrossFit is highly beneficial to any athlete, in any sport.

I don't want to do all weights. I want to get strong using my core and my natural power.

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 don't lift weights at all. Every muscle on my body is for an actual task; there is no muscle that I train for show. If I want to be able to do a certain move or action, I train really hard until I can. And with all of that training comes muscle definition, so it's really an afterthought.

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

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

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

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

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

I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.

Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.

I've been doing a lot of strength and stretch work to get stronger.

When I do train heavy, it's typically one to two days a week, but the training I do just about on a daily basis is Pilates-based.

CrossFit prepares you for real life.

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

Building strength is very important, but there are many ways to do that.