Brock Lesnar Quotes

After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day.

I still work on it almost every day in the gym. You have to know your body and that also means knowing when it's time to rest. Sometimes the coach will manage me and give me a day off so that I'm right for the weekend.

I think I train too hard.

My body had given up on me at one point. And as many injuries as I've had over the years, I truly believed that my body needed to rest and not be on the grind like it's been for the last 15 years.

If you are training properly, you should progress steadily. This doesn't necessarily mean a personal best every time you race ... Each training session should be like putting money in the bank. If your training works, you continue to deposit into your 'strength' account ... Too much training has the opposite effect. Rather than build, it tears down. Your body will tell when you have begun to tip the balance. Just be sure to listen to it.

Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.

The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body.

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

It's good for your body to have a break. Even when you're training, you have to have a cheat day every week. The body reacts better to training if you give it intervals of not training, or you relax the diet.

In the past, I was working out too heavy.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game.

You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.

As athletes, we love to say, 'Just one more; I'm going to figure it out on this next one.' It's tough to pull back the reins and do what is smart physically, listening to your body and always ending a workout or session feeling like I could have done more.

For me, what works is keeping training short but with high intensity and then recovering well. Physio, massage, icing, things like that.

When I was younger you think you know it all and after games you probably just go for some food or sit on your PlayStation. Now I take it a lot more seriously and recover properly because I know I need to give myself the best possible chance to be as fresh and as fit as I can for the next game.

After a tough match, I'll do an ice bath, and that's really good for recovery because it helps circulation. Sometimes you feel really swollen.

People get injured everyday doing simple things. The problem comes sometimes when people crank up the intensity on skilled movements before they are ready.

Fatigue is one thing. Injuries are another. But if you are just tired because you just practiced - well, I'm not having that.

In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always massages and neuromuscular therapy worked in there as well on different days.

Sleep plays an important role in overall well-being and especially in recovery during particularly intense training.

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

I'll try to play as long as I can stay healthy.