Ronnie Coleman Quotes

I knew that I had to train with intensity and focus, but I never thought about the weight on the bar.

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.

I see so many people in the gym just slinging weight around. You can accomplish more if you squeeze the reps out in perfect form, instead of going big and trying to kill it every time.

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

I do heavy weights in the morning for about an hour, and then I do 45 minutes of higher-volume lifting in the afternoon. My least favorite is the legs... I do quite a few chin-ups and rows. I do mostly old-school lifting with a lot of squats.

In the past, I was working out too heavy.

We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds.

I didn't train for powerlifting. I trained as a bodybuilder. I had to train to stress the muscle and not because of what was on the bar. I think my strategy was a good one because I have no aches, pains, or lingering injuries from training today. I feel great.

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

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 try and work out every day if possible, or as many times as possible in a week. I concentrate on one body part at a time, and spend at least two to two-and-a-half hours on really intense weight training.

You don't start out getting into the gym and bench pressing 300 pounds. You start out by doing the bar.

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

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

I am a naturally big guy, but I cannot rush my conditioning, otherwise trying too much too quickly could result in injuries.

I've lifted weights ever since I was a teenager, but I started going more towards the Olympic weightlifting style, which is clean and jerk.

I don't think you can push your body too far. Just do the basic exercises, deadlifts, squats, presses. The best times that you have with it will be when you get older: you're not all broken down like other people.

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.

When I'm in the gym, I always try and pair a push and a pull motion. I'll then follow that with a lot of shoulder stability work.

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

I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all the leg exercises. I know they help me, and I'm able to move around and don't have knee problems, and my hip doesn't hurt anymore, but when my trainer tells me I have to do them, I almost feel like my body goes into convulsions.

I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.

Even though the weight I'm lifting isn't what it was when I was playing, it's not like I'm not lifting weights that are heavier than the common person would lift. I think a lot of people look at that and say, 'Whoa!'

I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.