Quotes About Strength

Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body to fight back at full strength, and that might be too late. When you're pre-immunized, what happens is you have forces in your body pre-trained to recognize and defeat specific foes. So that's really how vaccines work.

Everybody always asks me, 'How much can you bench?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I don't lift weights.' Now that I'm in college, we lift weights every once in a while, but not maxing out. We do things with a weight vest on... That surprises people, too, how strong you can get by just basically lifting your body all the time.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.

Pilates makes you feel good because you're doing something that's good for your body, and you start seeing it. It elongates the muscles.

I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.

As your body deteriorates, your natural talents start to go a little bit. You have to bring in physical working out, building, taking protein and doing extra stuff.

If you do Bikram Yoga, you exercise your body 100 percent.

You're taught that you can keep going in the military. Your point of collapse is not what you thought it was. Your body is built to survive, and when you think you're going to collapse, you still have so much more left in you.

As you get older, your body doesn't hold up as much.

The core is the most important muscle group in your body. If your core is not strong, the rest of your body is weakened, too.

I'm about women's empowerment. I'm about agency. I'm about being in control of your narrative and your body.

I think valuing what your body can do over how your body looks is the No. 1 advice I would give to young women about how to have healthy body image. It's not, 'Do these pants fit?' It's 'Can I do a split?'

If you get your body right, you get your mind right, whatever you do, you have a fighting chance, and you have a chance to be victorious.

As an athlete, the most important thing is the protein that you eat and the things that you put into your body. Without that, it's very hard to function throughout the day.

Feeling strong is important, and to feel in your body is a vital part of being a woman, regardless of whether you're a mother or not.

Every single sport works out your body in a different way, and you can almost point out their bodies - like, that's a swimmer, that's a football player.

Being involved in sports, you think less about how your body looks and more how it performs.

I think some of the most important exercises are all the core exercises that you can do to maximize training in certain areas of your body.

If your body is working correctly, and then you get a cold or something, that cold probably won't knock you out as hard as it would have if you weren't healthy.

While cardio prompts your body to burn calories while you are exercising, resistance training not only sculpts, tones, and strengthens your body, but it causes your body to burn more calories when you are at rest.

Your body can't get stronger or more powerful unless you're balanced.

In order to resist injuries and stay healthy, you have to be mobile and agile. You have to be able to have your body work for you.

I don't think you can push your body too far. Just do the basic exercises, deadlifts, squats, presses. The best times that you have with it will be when you get older: you're not all broken down like other people.