Quotes About Muscle

In my eye, men appear at their most powerful when they strain to reach that momentary perfection. Every muscle and sinew is taut, and for them there is nothing else except their bodies and the sensations. Fighting in concert, side by side, it is as if they storm the gates of Heaven demanding entry.

With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.

I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this," he says. Say: "Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough." Show him your bicep.

She did not question God's supernatural power, but how to go about convincing God of her sincerity? Faith wasn't like a muscle that could be enlarged through rehabilitation exercises.

The sphincter which serve to discharge our stomachs has dilations and contractions proper to itself, independent of our wishes or even opposed to them.

Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.

Even when I was employed with the Punjab Police, I was into body-building.

Tabata: Tabata training is a type of workout named for Dr. Izumi Tabata, a Japanese researcher who found that four-minute exercises seemed to be optimal for building lean muscle. Ahh, just four minutes! But those four minutes are intense. For each exercise, you'll: Push yourself as hard as you can for 20 seconds. Rest for 10 seconds. Complete 8 rounds (for a total of 4 minutes).

Don't focus on your weight. This program is going to help you reshape your body by adding lean, firm muscle and burning off fat. But muscle weighs more than fat, and you may not see the same changes on the scale that you see in the mirror. Weight isn't a particularly good measure of your fitness, or your look. (In fact, you may actually gain a couple of pounds in the early stages as your body gets stronger and prepares to burn off flab.)

Building habits of group vulnerability is like building a muscle. It takes time, repetition, and the willingness to feel pain in order to achieve gains.

I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people who loved cars and took care of cars and my dad's a big car nut, so I learned a little bit about cars - how to love them, most importantly. I think that from the time I could remember, I've always envisioned myself in a vintage muscle car.

Fracture of the patella may be produced by muscular action or by direct violence. When produced by muscular action, it occurs thus: a person in danger of falling forwards attempts to recover himself by throwing the body backwards, and the violent action of the quadriceps extensor upon the patella snaps the bone transversely across.

You can't get strong without a program designed to develop strength. You can't build muscle unless you do the things that we know will force your muscles to get bigger. You can't make your body leaner unless you eat and train to accomplish that goal. There really are no loopholes. Efficacy + strength + the desire to improve + a solid program = results.

Your mind is everything. It's like a muscle. You must exercise it or it will atrophy—just like a muscle.

If your heart is the strongest muscle in your body, why does it break so easily?

I wouldn't want to be too lean.

He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.

he was immune to pain, an unstoppable machine of muscle and sinew.

Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.

I remember the runners best, nut-brown bodies slicked with oil, stretching on the track beneath the sun. They mix together, broad-shouldered husbands, beardless youths and boys, their calves all thickly carved with muscle.

It's five-sixths muscle memory, as you know. When muscle memory takes over, the heart can start to sing its song. Until then, you're stymied. You're just going through the motions.

If your body has muscle memory, why is it always so hard to get out of bed...

Brawn without brains is powerless

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.