Candace Cameron Bure Quotes

I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.

My Pacific Island genes will never allow me to be the most ripped, but I think I can get pretty close to it.

I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.

See, I hold myself through my own muscle strength. That is why I'm built like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

When I was 7 or 8, I'd go to bodybuilding shows with my family because they had friends who were into it, and it became something I wanted to do one day. I wanted to look big and strong.

You should never be afraid of looking athletic or building too much muscle.

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.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong.

Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.

I like to be strong.

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!'

Paul Rudd is ripped.

When lifting, I'm always with a trainer because the thing that makes a difference is that last 20% in your training, and he very scientifically looks after my food as well, because when I'm going for a 'shirt off' shot, everything changes the month before, and I'm timed down to the day.

I want to get more muscly.

I want to do an action movie where they say, 'Go the gym and get ripped like Linda Hamilton.'

I don't think my body's gonna go to hell if I train for performance. It might change a little and adapt, but I like being strong.

I pretty much spend most of my time in the gym bulking up and staying fit and putting muscle on so I can play the part of Luke Cage, but I've never been a gym rat.

I learned different ways of working out. I learned a lot about my body. Let me just say that Arnold Schwarzenegger had 20-inch biceps when he did his first film, and when I did 'Saala Khadoos,' being a vegetarian, I managed 18 and half inches.

I want people to realize bodybuilders are athletes. We have a very meticulous philosophy on how we are able to gain muscle and lose fat simultaneously.

Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.

There's a lot of talent out there with just the normal physique. The 'cross-fit' type physique - that's the new exercise that took over.

You often see him Ronaldo topless and his physique is awesome. It drives everyone on and we all want to have a body like his.

When I'm not filming full-time, I work out four times a week doing body weight exercises and weights. I'll do a leg day maybe with some abs, then the next day I'll do my arms.