Best Muscle Engagement Quotes

"Compound movements engage far more muscle mass making them a way more efficient driver of total body hypertrophy."

"Hitting reps in different ways each time... tap into all the different muscle fibers."

"Pause on the stretch... helps engage more muscle fibers."

"Remember, when you stop engaging and stop using perfect form, that's when you're gonna start using other muscles to help with this movement."

"It's not about lifting weights or sweating, it's about squeezing the muscle fibers."

"An advanced practice isn't necessarily having strength, it's knowing how to engage your muscles, how to turn them on, and how to use them."

"Think about how many muscles you're working."

"Focus on contraction: not just moving weight."

"Bodybuilding is all about feeling the muscle, allowing full range of motion to exist."

"Quality over quantity, okay? Really paying attention to mine to muscle engaging the muscles that I want to work."

"So again you're looking uh to have at the bottom of the movement um where your uh quads are in a lengthened position um you want to have lots of forward knee travel."

"...you need to use your calf muscle a lot more...you got to take time to transition..."

"This is the ability to control the shape of your foot and thereby engage your glutes more in exercise."

"This is your most basic lower body move, that's why we're starting with it. Your muscles are working, your posture is important too."

"I want you to feel that muscle working for you."

"So we're going to squeeze down on the cushion, keep the squeeze and lift and lower you're going to feel it all through the inner thighs and right into your core."

"A really great way to strengthen the glutes and engage the lower body."

"Pull the abs in, squeeze those abs, squeeze the glutes."

"Squeeze those chest muscles and bring them together this one's working your chest shoulders and abs hip flexors pull off your anterior muscles here on this one."

"Time under tension is gonna make you use every muscle fiber from the legs to your chest, to your back, biceps, triceps. We are going to work this in a way that you've never worked before."

"Maintaining this position we are constantly engaging every single muscle in our legs and glutes."

"It's not just a warm-up not just your upper back not just to loosen up your shoulders it's stabilizing your body the push-up underneath it's gonna help you start to get a pump."

"...if you're doing any type of dumbbell lateral raise it has the most torque and again that's what your muscles resting on is torque..."

"Generally, the side that you turn to, you're going to feel it on the opposite side."

"You feel the triceps, back your arm, yes?"

"So you're going to feel this, you're definitely gonna feel it in the leg that you're lifting, but you're also going to feel it in the one that's doing the supporting as well, so don't be surprised if those muscles start to talk to you as well."

"Use your glutes, use your abs, use your low back."

"You should feel kind of like your trap your rhomboid and your lap engage in your back there."

"We're still gonna feel it, in fact, even more because we're taking the momentum out of it and keeping it in the muscles."

"Squeeze in the back, squeezing the shoulder blades, squeezing the glutes."

"The more you can contract the muscles, the more muscles we have engaged, the more calorie burn."

"By the time we get to the squats, I want the focus to be more on the muscles and not the movement."

"The key to handstand push-up is squeezing your glutes and abs as you come down and up, get tight, get really really tight, that will help you balance."

"That is using all every single muscle that I can't see in my body, which is incredible for improving posture."

"You should be feeling it quite a bit through your quadriceps and those abdominal muscles."

"Feel the upper back muscles engaged."

"Engage the muscles of the back body, rippling down as you breathe out."

"This isn't just about stretching, it's about contracting your glutes and your back muscles, strengthening them."

"Feel all of your muscles working as you hold this position."

"As you squat back up, you are going to squeeze through your glutes."

"Sit deep into that chair, feel the backs of the legs and the glutes engage."

"You should feel your abs on tight here too, almost like if you were to cough or laugh, that same intense tensing of the abs."

"What muscles do you feel? I feel it in my chest, my back, and even in my abs."

"They say rowing is 80% of your muscles, which is amazing, all at the same time."

"Really think about contracting them, slowly lower, drive those knees out, and stand up tall."

"You just need to be intentional about your movements, you need to be specific, and you need to get those muscles engaged."

"We have a total of 10 movements that's going to hit every muscle in your body."

"As the secondary muscles start to get tired, the stronger muscles start to take over, getting you into the muscles you need."

"Thou shalt adduct at every opportunity."

"Take the time to feel the different muscles that you want working in your workout."

"We're going to try and basically pull our chest to our legs by squeezing our quads using our hip flexors."

"You're working your obliques, you're working your back, every muscle when you're working your core."

"Going all the way up, really with your elbows close to your body, contracting the lats—that's what you want to feel at the top."

"It's a fly right here; you're opening up that chest."

"The purpose of every hypertrophy exercise is not just to get the work done, it is to get the work done by using the target musculature."

"Take your time and really allow your lat muscles to power the movement."

"Belly button towards the spine, squeeze your booty muscles."

"When you're in the middle of the set, you're in control of how much fatigue you create, so squeeze those muscles hard."

"When using the ropes I find I can get a deeper contraction of the triceps."

"Squeeze every muscle in your arm, every muscle in your back and your chest."

"It's a lot of mind-muscle connection and being able to feel what muscle should be working."

"Squeeze the glutes, squeeze the core here."

"Focus on mind to muscle connection."

"These are divine exercises for the triceps, they work the three heads exactly the way they're supposed to be worked, they're low on fatigue for the elbow, they can be spammed, they are fun to do, they are easy to set up and pretty much anyone can do them."

"He's not just trying to move around as much weight as possible, but really trying to emphasize the squeeze."

"If you're squeezing in on that ball, that isometric contraction is really going to fire up your biceps and your chest muscles."

"Keep your abs in, squeeze the glutes."

"Every time they crunch down, they're tightening that core."

"Keep your body upright, you're going to feel your oblique as well."

"Keep squeezing, focus your muscle and mind connection on the part you're working and you'll see fast results."

"If you really focus on the rep and you go really slowly, especially on a pull-up... you really feel the muscle."