Dorian Yates Quotes

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.

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

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

I do cardio. I run. I strength-train using my own body weight. I don't like free weights, because I build muscle easily.

I was more of a weightlifter.

I'm not really into weight training.

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

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

I've always needed to bulk up, so until the modeling took off I was ramming Big Macs down my throat and doing plenty of bodyweight work. I'm over the Big Macs now, but I'll still drop down and do my press ups whenever I find the time.

In the past, I was working out too heavy.

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

I want to get more muscly.

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

I'm a body builder, so we do a lot of stuff on repetition.

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

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

Weight training keeps you fit and helps build your strength.

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 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.

squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place

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

It's tough, you know, when you're thin and you don't put on muscle mass that easily. What you've got to remember is that you really have to eat a lot and you have to work your body out with basic exercises like deadlifts and squats and the bench press - the workouts that are basic in form but work a large group of muscles.

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

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.

My dad had me start lifting weights at 12, and for me it was fun.