Shannon Sharpe Quotes

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 work out every day, and I challenge myself. I've got a couple of friends who do CrossFit; I'm not a huge CrossFit guy, but I love the challenge.

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.

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'm not a small guy. I can get up to 205 pounds and be athletic and be in shape.

I'll flip a stupid tire. But I ain't running.

If you can do a lot of pull-ups, you don't just appear to be strong. You are strong.

I do a lot of gym circuits; a bit like CrossFit or HIIT sessions, so just 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off. Circuits are a good fat-burner but they also work your heart and lungs.

I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.

My favorite workouts are the ones that don't feel like I'm working out! So, dance is a big one. Another is any kind of isolated moves, like ballet moves. Anything that works the glutes and legs - sign me up! And I like to blast the music. I have to get lost in the music. That helps.

I carry a lot of muscle easily.

We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot of running. I enjoyed the variety.

I like to be strong.

I was probably 12 or 13 when I started doing pushups, situps, dips.

I work out four to five days a week, alternating three workouts.

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

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

Working your core always, your foot speed, jumping rope, push-ups and sit-ups - things like that are really important. Those things will pay off more than just doing what a bench press will.

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

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

My husband and I own a CrossFit Gym. Crossfit is perfect for me because it's always competitive, all the workouts are in a class environment, and it's different every day. It's a constantly varied functional fitness workout done with intensity.

I used to arm wrestle my roommate in college. Based on that, I'm in pretty good shape.

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 always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.