Quotes About Muscles

They say your muscles have memory. Once you've trained your arms to swing a tennis racket or your legs to ride a bike, you can quit for a while - years even - and all it takes is picking up a racket or jumping on a bike again and your muscles remember what to do. They snap right back to performing the way you taught them. The heart is a muscle, too. And I've been training mine since I was a kid to fall in love with one particular person.

Every bone in her body felt as if it were broken, her muscles and skin bruised, agony throbbing through her joints. Gritting

was to come. She lost her fragile grasp on control, unaware of everything but the implosion of heat, the wave of sensation that made her muscles ripple and her

intelligence without muscles is electricity without a battery! You don't know where to put it … It leaks out all over the place … It's a waste … It's a mess.

That's what violence was: emotion leaking out from consciousness into the physical world, linking up with the muscles of the arms and shoulders and diaphragm and, inevitably, the face. Stifle emotion during an act of violence and the face becomes a blank, unreadable mask.

Black soil flew up in divots; the horses' heads pounded up and down like pistons, and he felt a sensation of rushing speed no machine could quite match as the great muscles flexed and bunched between his legs. Havel

It just took so much effort to get anything done without machinery, particularly since nobody really knew how to do a lot of the necessary things by hand. There were descriptions in books, but they always turned out to be maddeningly incomplete and/or no substitute for the knowledge experience built into your muscles and nerves.

I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching.

There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.

The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment

I'm the strongest bodybuilding who ever lived, I think.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

Strength is gained in the range it is trained.

Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?

I don't really need bulk, just strength. I can get strong without putting on weight.

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.

Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools for strengthening our spiritual muscles.

Running hills breaks up your rhythm and forces your muscles to adapt to new stresses. The result? You become stronger.

At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

corselet, without his coat of mail, without his cuisses; a Don Quixote clothed in a woolen doublet, the blue color of which had faded into a nameless shade between lees of wine and a heavenly azure; face long and brown; high cheek bones, a sign of sagacity; the maxillary muscles enormously developed

Things without all remedy should be without regard. But what you can cure, do so willingly. What ails the human body and soul may be difficult to diagnose, but just as often there is a simple resolution. Black pepper for aching muscles, linden root and yarrow for high blood pressure, feverfew for migraines, ginger for motion sickness, watercress to ease labored breathing, vervain to quiet the pangs of unrequited love.

Certain suggestions, or notions, would make the muscles of her lean spotty face quiver, her eyes go sharp and black, and her mouth work as if there was a despicable taste in it. She could stop you in your tracks then, like a savage thornbush.