Dorian Yates Quotes

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

The key to building massive, powerful muscles is to doggedly increase the training weights you use.

I stick to bread-and-butter bodybuilding. I hit my muscles from various angles, work on bringing up any weaknesses, and design workouts that are always challenging and helping me progress.

In order to pack on the most amount of muscle from your training, you need to train specifically for hypertrophy.

It's not that I don't want big triceps, but the truth is, I've never had much difficulty adding mass to them.

I certainly don't agree with the bodybuilders who say you can get big forearms just by squeezing the dumbbell handles when doing curls. In a few cases this may be true, but those guys would build big forearms by merely eating eggs in the morning. Most bodybuilders, myself included, have to work very hard for any kind of meaningful forearm development.

I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy.

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

I do weights and work out different body parts on different days. I don't do cardio - I did too much in my tennis-playing days!

I was more of a weightlifter.

I'm not really into weight training.

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

I want to bulk up. I'm a skinny guy.

I enjoy lifting weights, but I hate doing cardio.

I want to get more muscly.

I put on muscle really quick.

My body is one that kind of looks at weights, and then all of a sudden, I have muscle.

When you push and pull heavy things, your body thinks it's going to die, and so it's like, 'I better get bigger, in case we do that tomorrow.'

I need to improve my muscles because they are still quite small at the moment.

Dropsets overload the muscle with shorter rest periods and increasing volume, which you need to grow.

I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

If you want bigger arms, target the triceps, not the biceps.

Mostly, I was into powerlifting when I was in high school. And I just continued to train the same way I was taught - to powerlift. Once I started doing bodybuilding, there were no real differences, just different exercises. A different way of training with more repetitions, but it was still the same lifting of very heavy weights to get stronger.

I was 160lbs when I started and I went up to 195lbs. There were no steroids. But it was hard work, dedication, hitting the gym. You kind of see it.

If you want to grow a muscle, you must lift something out of your comfort zone. Push beyond what is comfortable, if you don't there will be no growth.