"No one paid me to get into bodybuilding for six years, but the lessons I learned from that have shifted my life massively."
"The pump literally causes muscle growth itself."
"Volume is actually more important than relative intensity."
"Most bodybuilders keep some reps in the tank to do more and more sets. That's how people get the biggest."
"I personally think he's the greatest bodybuilder of all time, and no one in their right mind would argue that Ronnie didn't train hard enough."
"It's important to remind yourself that not everybody's looking for that and really very few people should be looking for that. If you're not a competitive bodybuilder, then why do you want your glutes to be well-defined? It's too much."
"Bodybuilding is a lifestyle. You really gotta live it to get the results."
"Genetic response to drugs plays a crucial role in how you're going to look as a natural as well as what you're going to respond like to drugs."
"Organ imaging and understanding your organ health are critical elements that go beyond what many perceive as genetics in bodybuilding."
"Jacked, ripped, shredded, cut. Call it what you like. Right now, muscles are huge."
"I'm gonna step on that stage looking the best I ever have."
"I've already won in my book just because I've got into this physique without an end goal, which is way harder."
"Nimai became the world's first vegan IFBB professional bodybuilder, proving that you don't need animal products to be an elite athlete."
"When asked about his slender physique, he said his bodybuilding physique from all those years ago wasn't really him."
"Sergio Olivia was so legendary that people didn't actually think his body was real."
"Bodybuilding is all about the stretching and the contraction. It's not about throwing around weight."
"Bodybuilding, regardless of how healthy you do it, will warp your mind towards food because food becomes such a number."
"Mass moves Mass aka the more weight you're lifting, the bigger you're going to be."
"Don't think you need to bulk up and get fat just because you're natural."
"If you want bigger arms, you got to curl... there is research to support that."
"What's really shitty: do a bodybuilding show on July 25th and a really important jiu-jitsu competition on August 1st. How the hell are you supposed to get perfectly good or maximally good for both of those at the same time?"
"The Arnold Classic, it's one of the best competitions in the world."
"Super squats takes a single exercise not for causing an immense amount of growth over your entire body with just simple practice which is the squat."
"Ronnie Coleman had never even seen a bodybuilding contest and yet to the owner of the gym, Coleman already looked like a competitive bodybuilder."
"Whatever Arnold did in set of muscle fitness, we did."
"I was pretending to be a bodybuilder all those years. I was really a strength athlete."
"Bodybuilding for women shows great confidence in the face of scorn and adversity."
"It was beyond building a physique... it was about mastery over yourself."
"If you increase your body weight by 60 pounds, 50 pounds, 100 pounds over the next five to ten years."
"Bodybuilding at its essence is more about discipline than it is about smarts." - James
"I've chosen bodybuilding because I'm not going to make it in the world out there." - James
"Rami is honestly the best bodybuilder right now, far none."
"Out of all the bodybuilders out there, just who has done their job the best? These are the biggest bodybuilders to ever walk this earth."
"Well known for being the most successful female bodybuilder of all time, winning the much coveted title of Miss Olympia a whole ten times."
"Dexter Jackson may be retiring as a professional bodybuilder this year, but that doesn't mean he still isn't one of the biggest bodybuilders to ever walk this earth."
"Once I started looking good... then I started to get into building muscle."
"He's the goat in the bodybuilding space for doing a full life everything that he's done together."
"One mistake that people make is not respecting this reality of how slow muscle building is."
"It's super possible to have an amazing vegan bodybuilding diet."
"Compound movements engage far more muscle mass making them a way more efficient driver of total body hypertrophy."
"Sandow ushered in the Bronze Age of bodybuilding."
"I really don't even know what to say. The same drive that allowed him to dominate the world of professional bodybuilding is still wreaking havoc on his body."
"Every effective bodybuilder must have a genetic predisposition."
"Iris Kyle: statistically the finest female bodybuilder of all time."
"Yeon, the first Korean athlete to win the Arnold Classic Europe."
"We live in an attention economy after all which means that if Sam suck or any other bodybuilder for that matter can make you look longer than you might at someone else they are valuable from an economic perspective."
"Bodybuilding is a sport that can afford competitors more time... even if not for the sake of longevity..."
"Yeon Wuji is a social media sensation and a South Korean bodybuilder."
"Jacqueline J Fuchs is a professional female bodybuilder from Switzerland whose accomplishments in different events have earned her a position in the 10 top female bodybuilders in the world."
"Julia Vins is often known as Muscle Barbie and is a weightlifter who started bodybuilding at the age of 15."
"Iris Kyle has won an incredible nine Miss Olympia titles, which makes her statistically the finest female bodybuilder of all time."
"Erica Cordy never set out to be a beautiful bodybuilder, but looking at her, it's very clear she is."
"A lot of the practices of bodybuilding, if you apply them to your weightlifting or your strength training, will greatly improve the effects of any exercise."
"Well, if I was 260 and I got shredded I'd be huge."
"So the only person that can beat Nick that's significantly lighter is Hottie as of now."
"Top five might have some interruptions because Andrew Jack might be able to put his conditioning in place."
"If he somehow can get peeled, he's going to be dangerous."
"If Steve runs the Olympia and he's in it, that's not necessarily enough to do it. You need to kind of have everyone in on it."
"I think if everybody's in shape, James and Akeem have enough muscle that they could potentially squeeze in there and be somebody else."
"You look good but you look big like you look like yourself heavy you looked heavy but you looked perfect for a guest posing."
"A vegan bodybuilder achieves the exact same results without harming animals."
"The man's lifts are like Ronnie Coleman lifts, exactly!"
"Increase my muscle mass by 100 percent, increase my muscle mass."
"I think it's a great thing... it's the best thing that could have happened to bodybuilding."
"I think if a lot of people turn their focus towards classic physique... they're gonna realize conditioning is the most important thing."
"Jake Wood made the whole thing possible and I still don't believe he's making money on the show. I think it's still a labor of love for him and he's, he's an amazing benefactor to the sport of bodybuilding."
"Stop putting everybody else on a pedestal and put yourself on the pedestal. Let everybody else get on the bandwagon after they see how great you are."
"Bodybuilding is not that hour in the gym; it's number 23 hours outside the gym as well."
"Why do things like painting or sculpting when you can sculpt your body to become a perfect gymnastics machine?"
"I mean I did get what I wanted and what I set out to do was the respect and yeah the women all that came but then eventually that all that [ __ ] really didn't matter and it just became like a love of bodybuilding"
"So for the first time in years, it's not just about size, it's about symmetry and proportions and aesthetics."
"I have a burning desire to be the best bodybuilder in the world. That's what made me the best."
"Let's just get in there and get a freaky leg pump."
"Who said there is a specific age to be a bodybuilder? Meet Juliano Stroh, the world's youngest and strongest bodybuilder."
"The bodybuilding pictures are like the applesauce."
"I don't think I will likely ever win Olympia... I want them to be show titles."
"These are just some hard and fast rules that help me and some other people I know get that ultimate shredded look."
"Bodybuilding is such a beautiful journey because if you've been bullshitting yourself, it will show."
"I think Nick Walker might be one of the most talked about bodybuilders on the planet."
"I think it's possible... I think we're starting to see a new era of bodybuilding."
"I'm just a fan of the sport... sometimes we're right sometimes we're wrong but at the end of the day it's still bodybuilding."
"The secret is, I stay fairly lean all year round. I don't bulk ever."
"True Geordie actually asking hard questions that Ben Francis kinda has to answer to, that's that bodybuilding look as well."
"That's the first realization that I could actually be the best bodybuilder in the world."
"I think it's just easy excuses, you know? Well, that guy, you know, he's having a Roid Rage or whatever, but no, I don't think it necessarily changed my personality."
"Gaining strength and just putting on size, that should be the objective, not being shredded as a skinny fat guy."
"J Lo's doppelganger should also be a compliment to the star as the twin is also a professional bodybuilder."
"The top priorities are the chest and the shoulders."
"Proper exercise and fat loss... are the two biggest things that are going to help you see a more defined six-pack."
"Did you start to realize was it just when you took second at that Olympia was it that when you realized that you could win or what was that did that trigger you at that point because before that you said hey look I wasn't really."
"The afterlife of bodybuilding is so much more than just, 'Hey, I finished competing.'"
"Bodybuilding in itself is a very fulfilling project."
"Fitness and bodybuilding really fill that void for me."
"The squat, if you get a freaking thick voluptuously rotund glutes and quads and hams."
"Sometimes it's not just a bodybuilder passing away early, it's also stuff like this that makes you really think about it hard about if this is something you should be doing."
"I'm just going to show people how easy it is... they're going to see me put on size."
"Who's the greatest bodybuilder ever? Most people just say Ronnie's the king."
"It's good to see somebody actually like build a full foundation before hopping on gear because that's like few and far between now."
"The biggest thing is steroids. You can't gain 50 pounds of muscle and be like, 'oh it's irrelevant.' No, it's super [__] relevant."
"You can't gain 50 pounds of muscle and be like, 'oh it's irrelevant.' No, it's super [__] relevant."
"It's shocking how many people still think, 'oh if I took steroids like I could be a Mr. Olympia competitor'... it's absolutely not the case."
"Bodybuilding is not healthy... It's not balanced... Everything you need in life is about balance."
"Retirement has been harder than my entire career post bodybuilding."
"My first Olympia was my best show, I just, you can't, you can never forget it."
"To get symmetry and fullness in a muscle, you need to vary your exercises."
"I think Chris's legs are significantly better than Reagan's, especially his quads."
"If anyone ever forgets about bodybuilding and what they should be doing like you can just watch blood and guts over and over again and it just reminds you of all the basic stuff."
"With such a small amount of fat and highly defined bulk, Strebl is often dubbed 'The Most Shredded Man Alive.'"
"Imagine Big Ramy versus Nick, what if that was the one and two call out, two of the biggest freaks in bodybuilding right now."
"Winning the New York Pro on your first try back to back with winning the Arnold Classic on your first try is extremely impressive."
"Ronnie Coleman is the greatest legend of all time."
"That's what makes a legend, just being able to take your bodybuilding and become even broader with it."
"Rocky Giovanni is a 27-year-old woman from Florida that started bodybuilding in 2015 for her mental and physical health."
"Some people seem to be born lucky allowing them to develop a muscular body without even having to do a single thing."
"I [ __ ] loved it because it was hard. There were so few bodybuilders that I wanted to be one of them."
"His delts look like pumpkins, man. I got to say it, they look insane."
"I love bodybuilders, sure you guys are the best."
"This is how you get big traps as a drug-free lifter."
"Your overall strategy... is to try to gain more muscle while losing fat or at least minimizing fat gain in the process."
"Look at this sweep, man. Ronnie's got the best back of all time."
"Kai 2012 Arnold, New York Pro, he decimated everybody."
"That's what makes the back double bicep sort of like, what's the word, 'classic'."
"This is my favorite Kai Greene, even though he's like half the size of his biggest."
"You're seeing in real time the physical manifestation of switching from natural to enhanced."
"If Lionel could get 100 percent peeled, he would be Mr. Olympia."
"Bodybuilding helped me through this process, it gave me an outlet when I was going through my divorce."
"A bodybuilding show can be the best thing in the world."
"If you have the intensity in place, you can produce amazing results as an ectomorph."
"Never in my life have I seen a physique like this. Sauced up and it's kind of hard to compete with that guy right."
"For all we know, they may well have turned him into bodybuilder Jon Jones."
"You can build a very good physique and a very good foundation."
"Significant hypertrophy can be achieved when training a muscle group as infrequently as once per week."
"There's always a payment... and what you get back is gains."
"Most bodybuilders enter the bodybuilding scene early on and then retire relatively early, but not Ernestine Shephard."
"When you see Bahar Nabiva's incredibly muscular legs and developed frame, it's hard to imagine that she wasn't always like that."
"Frank Zane, many people regard him as the father of aesthetics or the Godfather of aesthetics."
"It wasn't my physical appearance that scared the bully away, it was my confidence. You know what? Just the fact that I believe in myself. That's why I truly tell people that bodybuilding really changed my life."
"Ronnie Coleman is the realest guy you'll ever meet in your life."
"He loved his fans... he just loves bodybuilding."
"I think Rich Piana was probably one of the best things that happened to bodybuilding."
"Roni will kill Dorian Yates any time of the day."
"I'm a firm believer that your ability to isolate a muscle is the cheat code to growth."
"I've started a new hobby, started bodybuilding, did the left hand side, happy with that, but I got bored of it, couldn't be asked to do anymore so yeah sort of just look like this now."
"Time is your most valuable resource, especially as a bodybuilder. Every time you can save time and sneak some exercises into the program, that is a massive win."
"Giant sets exist for isolation movements. Treat your accessories as priorities."
"Giant sets build work capacity like nothing else. If you struggle to put in work to recover from volume and to push for tonnage, giant sets start introducing them."
"Strength training focuses on single movements and pushes them as far as possible to develop strength. Bodybuilding training concentrates on a variety of lifts to accumulate as much tonnage as possible."
"His content is great for learning the nitty-gritty of bodybuilding."
"Insulin, one of the most dangerous things a bodybuilder could ever use."
"Counting macros and doing the basics is key to body composition success."
"For bodybuilding on average, volume is king."
"Just because you don't look like an IFBB pro after training for a couple years doesn't mean you're a hard gainer."
"Arnold’s strongest muscle was, not his bicep, but his brain."
"He was now the undisputed king of bodybuilding."
"But it has never been my goal to be a Mr. Olympia competitor."
"Flex Wheeler, one of the most consistent bodybuilders ever."
"Prince natural if you train as hard as me Prince natural would be a 200-pound freak of nature and he'd be an ayah beanie Pro natural and probably make the mr. Olympia and classic physique now with steroids he becomes mr. he would actually win it."
"The guy has gained copious amounts of contractile tissue... look at the difference bro, holy [__]."
"I'd rather be a champion in classic if I have a classic physique."
"If he has that it's over if he doesn't have it now you're probably looking at William Bonac but me the muscles there the shape is there."
"He's got a little bit of a long waist, but with a little bit more added lat size and quad thickness, this could be [ __ ] really dangerous."
"Weak upper back: the struggle with thickness."
"Full range of motion: key to optimal contraction."
"Focus on contraction: not just moving weight."
"Mind muscle connection: slow negatives for growth."
"Fight for your life: commanding biceps to grow."
"But when you get it, you can feel your lower trap literally pumps up. It's really cool."
"Small angles make your cows look bigger. That's probably the most small wrist make your forearms look bigger. Small joints are a blessing in bodybuilding."
"Terrence looks massive on stage, he weighs about 180 pounds but his joints are small, his muscle bellies look full, creates an awesome illusion."
"Advice on applying Melt Dog training principles: Phase 1 pre-pump, Phase 2 explosive, Phase 3 pump to an upper-lower program."
"Ronnie Coleman is easily not only one of the freakiest bodybuilders in the world but also one of the best." - Ronnie Coleman
"Cedric McMillan... had Lee Haney type genetics."
"I'm a huge proponent of the mental aspect of trying to get bodybuilders to enjoy life a little bit more."
"Titrating up GH is some of the best results that I've seen with guys."
"Nutrition is the most important part in bodybuilding, I would say even more important than training alone."
"Protein is essential for everything - skin, hair, muscles, bones, organs, enzymes, hormones."
"One gram of protein per pound of body weight is optimal for everyone, not just bodybuilders."
"Don't be afraid of taking simple carbohydrates post-workout; it's crucial for muscle recovery and growth."
"Muscle is not built very easily, it takes a lot of work."
"Oksana Grishina: Four Miss Fitness Olympia titles."
"Bodybuilders love to push themselves, committing to extreme diets and exercise regimes to push their bodies as they sculpt their physique to perfection."
"He could probably look artistic just walking out and hitting a succession of mandatories."
"There was a certain Majesty about Ed Corney's movements that made him almost mesmerizing to watch."
"Bigger is not better. Better is when you create more symmetry, more definition, more muscle separation."
"Even Dorian Yates, given how dominant he was in such a stacked era, his six Olympias count for a lot more in my estimation than Arnold's seven."
"He's built an incredible body and an incredible career."
"All the top 10 bodybuilders in the world, all of their genetics are incredible, but each of those guys probably have to like torture themselves to get there."
"Hunter is going to do really well. He has kind of that similar physique of a guy you know, here we are talking about smaller bodybuilders that are really dramatic and that's Hunter."
"Cadence... slow down the reps... after a set close to failure like, 'Oh my god, my triceps and my elbows feel great!'"
"It's not whoever eats the fewest amount of calories that wins a show, it's whoever looks the best."
"Is that what men's physique is? It's supposed to be for sure."
"Besides benefiting bodybuilding it also tremendously benefited my health and well-being."
"What better bodybuilders routine to take from than Arnold himself?"