Lightweights are heavier and bigger than me. I walk around 166 pounds, and other lightweights come down from 198, so they are stronger than me.
When I was younger, I could carry 270 around and run go routes, and it was no big deal.
I've done, on video, 150-pound dumbbells in each hand -I think it was, like, twenty two reps - on an incline.
I will always find something to challenge myself. I will go up to heavyweight or down to middleweight.
I carry a lot of muscle easily.
One day when I was bored, I just went down to a powerlifting gym, Via Strength Systems in Albuquerque. I knew I needed to expend my energy somehow. I started working out with them four days a week. I became obsessed with lifting and being fit.
I've got a waistline to develop.
Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
I want to do an action movie where they say, 'Go the gym and get ripped like Linda Hamilton.'
I work out four to five days a week, alternating three workouts.
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!'
My first bodybuilding competition was the 2003 NPC Northern Colorado, where I was a light-heavyweight weighing in at 192 lbs. I was very nervous, as it was my first real-life experience being a bodybuilder.
I work out every day - and my daily routine is a mix of functional and strength training.
Light weight ... Yeah buddy!
At middleweight, I started to find an ideal weight for me. I face guys my size, my height, and with my physique.
In 1959 I had broken the bench press record by lifting 565 pounds, and I could lift 715 pounds from a squat.
I'm strong, but my arms are skinny; they're never going to get big and bulky like a football player.
I enjoy lifting weights more than I enjoy getting on the treadmill to run.
I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.
Fighting in a heavier weight class is a big achievement on its own.
If you've noticed that dumbbells work better than barbells for you on the bench press, then why change that?
I like weightlifting and cardio workouts, and I'll do a lot of circuit workouts and plyometric as well.
To me, getting muscular was the first thing I ever achieved by working at it, and it was a game changer for me, because it was the first time I ever had confidence.
I lift pretty heavy for my body weight, and I don't do any of that girly stuff like cardio or any light weights. I go really heavy, and that intimidates some guys. I enjoy that.
I like lifting weights. And there is a cardio element to lifting if you're doing it the way I do it.
