Denise Austin Quotes

I just can't seem to make myself care about what I look like when I am working out.

When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life.

I would never become a size zero. I work out because I want to look good naked, simple as that.

I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.

I do weights three or four times a week, and it has had an incredible impact on my confidence.

I just want to be fit because I want to look nice without a shirt.

I just lifted heavy, and if I looked good, then that's good with me.

I wanted to look sexy and I felt like I was too skinny so I started working out with a trainer trying to build some muscle because I was like this skinny little scrawny girl.

I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.

I travel often, which can make maintaining a workout schedule a little difficult, but I try to make time for it whenever I can. Sometimes I wake up extra early so I can fit in a run or a bike ride, and other days I'll just blast music and jump around or watch a 30-minute exercise video.

I mean, everyone walks into the gym on day one skinny or fat. Arnold Schwarzenegger walked into the gym skinny at 15 or 16, and I was that way, too.

I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!

I have a little half-Asian butt, and the more I work out, the more I try to get it bigger, it's just going to get flatter and harder.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

Staying fit is all about trying to find enjoyment in something physical, because that's the only way you're gonna get results.

The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.

I'd feel better about myself if I did stomach crunches, but I don't.

I'm not really into weight training.

Keep in shape: if you look good, you will feel confident.

My thighs were huge; they were like rock! Growing up, I was really athletic, and I had a very athletic body.

I'm addicted to a really tough workout. I like to be drenched in sweat when I'm done because I feel accomplished.

I'm not going to give up salt and sugar because I want to look like Adriana Lima. But I am going to work out to make myself feel good in my own body.

I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.

And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.

I'm more proud of my upper body. Let's just say I'm a typical female in that way.