“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that girls who max out at four reps are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles. I believe in the power of a good lift.”
“The iron game is the only true happiness.”
“If you ain’t squattin’, you’ll be forgotten.”
“Easy weight, easy weight. Gimme two more.”
“The best thing to hold onto in life is a wide-grip lat pulldown bar.”
“Focus on your traps, and everything else will eventually fall into place.”
“Stop worrying about bulking up. Start worrying about showing up.”
“Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody want to lift heavy-ass weights.”
“If the bar ain’t bendin’, you’re just pretendin’.”
“Thursdays are leg days.”
“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner, behind the burpee mile. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in keeping your goddamn legs straight during the deadlift.”
“Let’s get shredded.”
“Gossip in the parking lot. In here, shut the fuck up and train.”
“For attractive lips, lift heavy.
There is no such thing as over-training, just under-nutrition and under-sleeping.
For lovely eyes, lift heavy.
For a slim figure, try the elliptical machines with the other sheep. The rest of us are here to work.
For beautiful hair, lift heavy.
For poise, lift with the knowledge you’ll never lift alone. Find your spotter.
I don’t do this to be healthy. I do this to get big muscles.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; Never throw out anybody.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. You’ll need both for tricep dips.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in big arms and shoulders, which are particularly useful once you start squatting more than 375.”
Tags: advice, audrey hepburn, beauty, bro do you even lift, femininity, gettin’ swole, grace
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Oh, NO, what even is a burpee mile!
I don’t know but it sounds so terrible that I refuse to google it.
NPR brought this up in an article about alternate mile challenges, of which the beer mile was by far the least offensive. The burpee version means no running; all forward distance is traveled by leaping forward rather than merely upward at the end of each rep. Humans are terrible.
NOPE
I am nauseated even watching this, but people have actually done this thing. I need to go lie down.
This is amazing. Mark Twain should write a short story about it.
My proudest moment in life was beating my little sister at the beer mile. She ran faster but I can chug like a frat boy.
Might it be this to which you refer: http://www.npr.org/2014/05/06/309833057/on-your-m…
YOU DO BURPEES
FOR A MILE
DOUBLE NOPE
But that would take days!
i prefer to do legs for days
I stumbled across a conversation about Burpee miles somewhere online a few days ago, and I just backed out silently and scurried away, humming anxiously to myself in hopes I could forget I’d ever heard the phrase. BUT NO
Biggest takeaway by far, and I loved it all.
Make this a poster and I will buy 20.
I have never been able to look at Audrey Hepburn without thinking about the reason she’s such a sylph is that she was starving and had malnutrition as she went through puberty during WWII.
YES THIS.
Also, I’ve read that she struggled with eating disorders a lot which is all I could think about when reading this. :/
And that for the rest of her life, when she was under stress she had trouble eating. So, when she was at her thinnest was also when she was the unhappiest.
The sylph thing reminds me of one of my favorite facts about her, which is that she used to dance to collect money for the Dutch resistance (malnourished = ballet body :-(). But I would totally go see a dance recital with the theme of “Audrey Hepburn Dancing Against the Nazis.” Somebody do that, have some money.
I think of this when people post Monroe pics with “when did THIS [Monroe] become THIS [skinny modern celebrity].” Cause Hepburn & Monroe were contemporaries! Tiny tiny Hepburn got the role of Holly Golightly *over* Monroe, against Capote’s wishes! .
Put these on a tee shirt, please
I want this on a shirt:
“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in big arms and shoulders, which are particularly useful once you start squatting more than 375.”
kate beaton time: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=346
“The Duke of Flam is wearing a fashion bird” “twoo”
It’s always Kate Beaton time.
Always.
~**~ All of us are born in a gutter, but some of us learn to bench our f’ing body weight ~**~
I would take this on a t-shirt, pronto.
Fucking genius.
What a beautiful love letter to Nicole.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING THIS.
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; Never throw out anybody.”
Beautiful.
Glorious. Simply glorious.
My favorite part of this is imagining Mallory trolling through bodybuilding websites to find these quotes.
I’m currently embroidering the Ronnie Coleman quote about heavyass weight onto a sampler for my power cage.
“I love heavy singles. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, heavy singles. It breaks a multitude of plateaus. Its probably the most important thing in my programming cycle.”
I wait anxiously for the day this website finally makes me enjoy weightlifting. So far I’ve resisted conversion to its strange yet attractive ways.
For a slim figure, try the elliptical machines with the other sheep. The rest of us are here to work.
YES
Also, I have that photo of me flexing my terrifying traps (post workout, so extra sexy-sweaty) and will post it in Friday’s Open Thread.
I would take this on a t-shirt, pronto.
I think of this when people post Monroe pics with "when did THIS [Monroe] become THIS [skinny modern celebrity]." Cause Hepburn & Monroe were contemporaries! Tiny tiny Hepburn got the role of Holly Golightly *over* Monroe, against Capote's wishes! .
Odd that so many replies know, and seem anxious to mention the ‘”truth” about the something in her life that “explains” her
physical looks.
So many clairvoyants!
Reading someone’s interpretation of her life doesn’t explain or diminish her beauty.