Quotes About Muscle

It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.

The key to building long muscle as you swim is stretching arms far ahead of you in the water, sort of like a swan.

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

Surprisingly, muscle tension can even break a hip before the person has reached the ground. It's a frightening thought, but a good example of how stressed muscles can become.

glancing back I got my first clear look at the monster. He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of Muscle Man magazine-bulging biceps and triceps and a bunch of other 'ceps, all stuffed like baseballs under vein-webbed skin. He wore no clothes except underwear-I mean, bright white fruit of the Looms.

Money is just another word for power.

Our world faces incredible economic uncertainty. The notion of what is a super power has evolved, and who actually can carry what muscle has changed.

The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.

The strengthOf twenty men.

kinesiology uses muscle monitoring to identify stress patterns in the body.

What is my sin, Cock? Have I eaten innocent tissue, innocent muscle too often? I always killed them, in the old days, before I ate them. Now I'm afraid I wouldn't hesitate to eat them alive.

muscle cells take about fifteen years to completely renew themselves.

Since any muscle cell will eventually reach a state of exhaustion—a depletion of available ATP—if it is kept constantly firing and working, one of the primary tasks of neuromuscular coordination is to maintain this overall tension set without exhausting any one cell. This is accomplished by a firing pattern called asynchronous stimulation, which alternates the working tonus contraction from motor unit to motor unit, so that some are always engaged while others are resting.

The hardest lesson I had learnt upon my travels was patience. There are times when every muscle, every nerve, screams for movement, when every instinct urges escape. But the instinct to fly is not always a sound one. There are occasions when only stillness can save you.

Recalled Chuck Clanton, a junior cornerback: "When I saw him the first time I was like, 'Jesus Christ, what the fuck is that?' When he walked, his thighs naturally rubbed together. There was no fat. None. He had Earl Campbell thighs. But he was faster than Earl Campbell. If he had three percent body fat, that'd be a lot. He was all muscle. Like a tank from the future.

The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. That leads to weakness, sluggishness, slow times. In girls, it can also result in cessation of menstrual periods, which in turn leads to loss of bone density and frequent stress fractures.

My body is my weapon, and I have to keep it in shape; I need to feel strong.

I like when a guy wears a T-shirt, and you can see a little curve of the muscle sticking out. That's sexy!

Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.

After a weigh-in, you drink and put on the pounds. But it's just fluid, not muscle, so you get in the ring and feel flat.

Guys like me can put on 10-15 pounds in a week.

Put on about 10 more pounds, that'd be good for me and the development of my game.

I think the first contest I did, I was somewhere just over 300 pounds. With my frame, I needed to add more weight and put more muscle on to get better leverage and be more successful. Just to get stronger, really. I had to work really hard.

I walk around about 175-180 pounds, and get up to about 185.