Quotes About Weightlifter

It's humbling how my peers view me as not only one of the best Olympic power and weightlifters, but as an athlete.

I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

At 285 pounds, I was extremely strong, and it was all usable strength that I could direct against opponents, not like that of a weightlifter, whose feats of power are all restricted.

We all have limitations. I don't have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don't have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.

I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

Called girya in Russian, this cannonball with a handle has been making better men and women for over 300 years. In imperial Russia, "kettlebell" was synonymous with "strength." A strongman or weightlifter was called a girevik or a "kettlebell man." Strong ladies were girevichkas or "kettlebell women.

In Russia kettlebells are a matter of national pride and a symbol of strength. In the olden days, any strongman or weightlifter was referred to as a girevik, or "kettlebell man." Steeled by their kettlebells, generation after generation of Russian boys has turned to men.