Gunnar Peterson Quotes

If your diet is dialed in, you can train in a pretty subpar manner and still get passable results. On the other hand, if your training is fantastic but your diet is crap, you have a harder road ahead of you.

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

I run probably 35-40 miles a week, and I think 80 per cent of your body is what you eat. The biggest part is just eating well.

It's key to know which essential foods will keep you going and help your body recover after hard work.

If you eat every two hours, your body doesn't really hold much fat, and it actually speeds up your metabolism.

I believe that if you're able to eat as much as a bodybuilder is supposed to, you're probably not going to overtrain.

I eat a lot more now than I ever used to. I have taken a real interest in nutrition and believe in the difference that makes when fueling your body correctly. That means never skipping a meal and making sure that my diet supports my training needs.

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.

You need to be smart about what you put in your body.

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.

Eating Paleo just leans you down and slims you up and takes that little layer of fat and water-weight right off your body.

You need a good, healthy diet - it's about finding out what your body needs. Sugar is a disaster for skin, as is white flour.

Bringing exercise bands, ankle weights, and a jump rope is a great way to work out while you're traveling. You can find amazing workout videos online to help with your training.

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

We have to know how to eat right, train right, and take the right over-the-counter supplements.

Good nutrition must be at the core of all that you do training and health wise.

Like a race car you can't put in regular gas. That's what food is: your fuel.

I don't avoid carbs. I don't avoid protein. I think it's just, again, about balance and finding what works for you and your body. For me, having a higher protein, higher carbohydrate, and middle-of-the-road fat count usually gets the job done as far as my energy needs and for my physique.

You've just got to train hard. Conditioning is key, recovery is key. As hard as you work, recovery is just as important. All the soft-tissue work daily, all the things that keep me clean. And you've always got to be aware of what you're eating, what you're putting inside your body. That's key as well.

Nutrition is important, training is important - but so are rest and recovery, massages, acupuncture. Your body is your temple, and you've got to take care of it.

A lot of people think about food as fuel, where you need to get nutrients in your body.

You can work out until you're blue in the face and run a thousand miles a week, but none of it will matter if you aren't eating well.

When you work out a lot, it's so important to eat the right foods.