Michael Chiesa Quotes

All weight cuts are hard.

If I just cut out the food, I'd have a six-pack. I'd look like Matthew McConaughey.

Diet hard, train hard.

Cutting weight is always rough, especially for guys like myself that make a significant cut to make a number.

When you drop weight, the closer you come to the fight, the more your muscles tighten up.

I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.

I was a dancer until I was 19. I never had to worry about working out or what I ate. So I've really had to train myself to get down to the gym.

I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.

I don't get fat, I get skinny.

I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.

If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.

I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.

You can train and train until you are blue in the face, but you've got to diet, you've got to have that leanness because if you are not lean, your abs won't show. Of course, the training has to be put in, but then you've to shed all the fat and keep the fat off. And that's how you get an eight pack.

I'm doing it by enjoying what I do in the gym, really enjoying my foods.

I once didn't work out for six weeks. It took me for ever to get the weight off.

You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.

Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

My dirty little secret is that I hate running. I don't like cardio. I also really like food, and all kinds of food - bread, chocolate, all of the yummy stuff. I up my cardio quite a bit and I start cutting out carbs, sugar, and salt just to try to get as lean as I can.

I know that I'm very comfortable with my body. I'm not in insane shape or anything. I run, but I'm not a gym guy or anything. I wish I had washboard abs, but I don't.

When I start training, I get very serious and focused about it. I probably train 4-5 days a week, and I eat probably eat 5-8 small meals a day to keep my metabolism going.

I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.

If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.

I'm pretty sure 'Nutty Professor' will happen to me at some point. And when it does, I will go to the gym.

When I trained for 'Creed,' I had about a year in advance to know what I was doing before. So I lived like a fighter, you know? I went through the workout routine, the diet, training with real boxers, training with real trainers, did the whole thing.