Quotes About Endurance

Don't try to get yourself smoked; this will come soon enough. A 30-minute practice is about right. When done, you should feel energized rather than wiped out. You should hardly be sore the day after.

Do not be afraid to push into slight overtraining and then back off with lighter workouts. As a Lithuanian saying goes, "A river with a dam has more power.

If a kettlebell were a person, it would be the type of a guy you would want [on your side] in an alley fight. —Glenn Buechlein, powerlifter

We do not tolerate weakness at StrongFirst. You do not have a weak arm and a strong arm—but a strong and a stronger one.

The bike is efficient—and fat people can ride it forever.

Experience and science agree that kettlebell training develops a wide range of attributes: strength and power, various types of endurance, muscle hypertrophy, fat loss, health, and more. The kettlebell swing has been known to improve the deadlift of elite powerlifters—and the running times of high-level long distance runners. This is what gireviks call "the What the Hell Effect." The kettlebell defies the laws of specificity.

Train the press in a similar fashion. First, give an adequate load to the weaker arm (3-5 sets till substantial fatigue), then to the strong one. Once a week, perform a full cycle of the exercises (in 2-3 sets—as in a competition): press the kettlebell out with one arm until total exhaustion, and then repeat the drill with the other arm, without setting the kettlebell down on the platform.

Every two weeks take a kettlebell one or more sizes lighter than the one you are currently swinging. Pick a swing variation—two-arm, one-arm, hand-to-hand, mixed—and enjoy the pain.

Life is stronger than death.

If life were known one moment ahead, how could it be endured?

Throw eggs at a rock, and though one uses all the eggs in the world, the rock remains the same.

Well, and every man has his troubles and I must make shift to live with mine as I can

demands the utmost in wisdom, in attack, in endurance. Violence is simple and easy, it is the sword of the stupid and dull-witted, and it always leaves chaos. To carry on a positive revolution without violence—ah, that is a challenge to intelligence!

The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit

Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy to sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." —Samuel Beckett

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is, how we tick and how our world ticks, how the whole thing just is.

And now as long as space endures, As long as there are beings to be found, May I continue likewise to remain To drive away the sorrows of the world. —The Way of the Bodhisattva, v. 10.55

This pattern is what we observe in many difficult situations. For instance, if someone is very ill, everyone pulls together to help, but if the illness goes on for a year or two, people start pulling away because they're not up for that much.

The waves just keep coming and knocking you down, but you stand up again and with some sense of rousing yourself, standing up.

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.