What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.
I think you should love your body. Train it properly because the result is always amazing.
I've had to learn how to listen to my body over the years and figure out how it all works together. I'm not invincible, so focusing on training my whole body and injury prevention have been extremely important.
I want to see how far I can train. I have to see how far my body will go.
Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.
In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.
As an athlete, if you train your body but don't fuel it the right way, that doesn't make much sense. Adopting a plant-based diet with the right amount of proteins that came from the right places was the way to go. I also just love gardening.
And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.
I think some of the most important exercises are all the core exercises that you can do to maximize training in certain areas of your body.
If you're going to train your body, it would be a really good thing to also train your brain.
I like to train the body from as many different angles as possible to use every modality available to do it.
Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.
