Old school strength, bodybuilding and physical training quotes from Mythslayer. It is important to recognise that much of our training knowledge comes from the old masters of decades ago.

1. Wisdom
Of The
Masters
Physical Training Quotes From The Sages Of Strength

2. Wisdom Of The Masters
• It’s important to recognise that much of our current training
knowledge arose from the teachings and experience of the
weight trainers and bodybuilders of long ago
• By studying these great teachers we can develop wisdom
from what they are willing to share.
• Take a look at these gems of insight from the old school
“Sages Of Strength”

3. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“ One cannot actualize his
goals until he visualizes
them clearly in the minds
eye”
Mike Mentzer

4. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“Working chest, delts, tris, and
biceps works approximately
10% of your overall lean body
mass. Working hard on
deadlifts (bent legged, trap Bar,
or sumo) or squatting (not
necessarily at the same time)
works more like 70% of your
musculature at once and sends
a strong message to your body
to get better at growing now!”
Wesley Silveira

5. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“There's more to life
than training, but
training is what puts
more in your life.”
Brooks Kubik

6. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“There is no reason to be
alive if you can't do the
deadlift!”
Jon Pall Sigmarsson

7. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“Always remember this...there
is only one recipe for strength.
A secret recipe that was
handed down from Sandow to
John Grimek to Paul
Anderson to Vasily Alexeev to
Bill Kazmaier to me.
Now I’m giving you that
magical recipe…hard work
plus proper nutrition plus
time equals strong.”
Steve Pulcinella

8. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“The Iron never lies to you. You can
walk outside and listen to all kinds of
talk, get told that you're a god or a
total bastard. The Iron will always
kick you the real deal. The Iron is the
great reference point, the all-knowing
perspective giver. Always there like a
beacon in the pitch black.
I have found the Iron to be my
greatest friend. It never freaks out on
me, never runs. Friends may come
and go. But two hundred pounds is
always two hundred pounds.”
Henry Rollins

9. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“I would like to be the
first man in the gym
business to throw out
my scale.
If you don’t like what
you see in the mirror,
what difference does it
make what the scale
says”
Vince Gironda

10. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“Far too many bodybuilders
spend too much time
exercising the smaller
muscle groups such as the
biceps at the expense of the
larger muscle groups such as
the thighs, and then they
wonder why it is that they
never make gains in overall
size and strength.”
Reg Park

11. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“ I also agree with you
about the whole paralysis by
analysis thing. Yes, you have
to be smart in your training,
and yes, you have to think it
through and plan it -- but
you also have to chalk your
hands, grab the bar and lift
it. That's where so many
people go wrong.”
Brooks Kubik

12. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“Mediocre athletes
that tried like hell
to get good are the
best coaches”
Mark Rippetoe

13. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“You are right to be
wary. There is much
bullshit. Be wary of me
too, because I may be
wrong. Make up your
own mind after you
evaluate all the
evidence and the logic.”
Mark Rippetoe

14. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“ Strength does not come
from winning. Your
struggles develop your
strengths.
When you go through
hardships and decide not
to surrender, that is
strength”.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

15. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“I could never find a
better biceps exercise
than dumbell curls on
the incline bench, so
after a while that was
the only one I did.”
Steve Reeves, 1966

16. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“Live your life by the hour,
not by the day.
What will you achieve in
the next hour?”
Frank Zane

17. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“Exercise is King.
Nutrition is the Queen.
Put them together and
you have a kingdom.”
Jack LaLanne, 1953

18. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“If you want to be a
success in bodybuilding
or anything else in life,
you can’t have lukewarm
ambition or an
indifferent attitude. You
must acquire intensity
and a strong desire.
That’s the only way you
will succeed.”
Dr. Frederick Tilney, 1947
Sergio Oliva ” The Myth”

19. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“Motivate the mind, the
body will follow”
Larry Scott,1967

20. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“ The biggest mistake a
bodybuilder can make is
losing sight of what is
aesthetically pleasing.
Symmetry should always
have precedence over sheer
bulk.”
Clarence Ross, 1949
Kevin Levrone

21. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“Unless you’re willing to
really sweat, you’re
unlikely to achieve any
major success in barbell
work. Great lifters and
physique men are made,
not born. They are self
made, via their own
diligent, gruelling
efforts.”
Bradley Steiner, 1973

22. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“Talk all you want about
arcane bodybuilding
theories.
I’ll be in the gym. It’s
leg day”
Dave Draper, 1999

23. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“For me life is
continuously being
hungry.
The meaning of life is not
simply to exist, to
survive, but to move
ahead, to go up, to
achieve, to conquer.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger

24. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“ Train don’t strain.
Don’t leave everything
in the gym.
Save some energy for
living.”
Bill Pearl, 1974

25. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“ Through the years, I
have combined
meditation, action, and
the Iron into a single
strength. I believe that
when the body is strong,
the mind thinks strong
thoughts. Time spent
away from the Iron
makes my mind
degenerate. I wallow in
a thick depression. My
body shuts down my
mind.”
Henry Rollins

26. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“To feel strong, to walk amongst
humans with a tremendous
feeling of confidence and
superiority is not at all wrong.
The sense of superiority in
bodily strength is borne out by
the long history of mankind
paying homage in folklore, song
and poetry to strong men”.
Fred Hatfield
Big Ramy

27. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“ Just imagine if we
could solve the mystery
of life sufficient to
extend man’s life
expectancy to reach the
century mark. What
wonderful progress the
human race would make
in everything that is
worthwhile. I believe
the best tool we have of
achieving that goal is
barbell training and
proper eating.”
George Jowett, 1947

28. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“If you want bigger
arms - squat!
Squatting makes
everything grow.”
Sergio Oliva, 1967

29. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“ I don’t believe in bodybuilders
using steroids. If a man doesn’t
have enough male hormones in
his system to create, a nice
hard, muscular body, he should
take up ping pong”
Steve Reeves

30. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“After being taught sets and
reps and working at it for a
length of time you can't paint
by numbers anymore. It must
come from within.
Any artist has an emotional
contact with their work. A true
bodybuilder doesn't just build
muscle he creates muscle. You
can't be a robot.”
Tom Platz

31. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“You get as big as possible from
becoming as strong as possible.
When I started lifting I went
into the gym with that ‘how
much can I bench, curl squat ,
and deadlift?’ attitude.
That’s when I discovered how
fast my strength could increase,
and it made me crazy intense to
get even stronger.”
Kevin Levrone,

32. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“ I still believe one of the
most important choices is
how we treat others.
What good does it do you to
build a huge muscular,
impressive body if you are
small and underdeveloped
on the inside?
I’ve always felt that success
begins on the inside and
reaching our true potential
gets blocked when we are
small-spirited.”
Rich Gaspari

33. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“Some people like to live without too much
risk. They’re satisfied leading a safe
existence. This attitude of caution
infiltrates into their goals. Every
successful athlete - or businessperson
enjoys taking calculated risks. You have to.
Especially in the gym when you’re
squatting 500 for reps and you can’t get
one more but grunt out ten. Your nose
starts bleeding, you fall into the rack and
that’s set one.”
Tom Platz

34. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“ Risk more than others
think is safe. Care more
than others think is
wise. Dream more than
others think is practical.
Expect more than
others think is possible.”
Frank Zane

35. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“To stimulate optimal size and
strength increases, it's imperative
that you regularly attempt the
momentarily impossible. For
example, if you can curl 100 pounds
for a maximum of 10 reps, but
never attempt the 11th, your body
has no reason to enlarge upon its
existing capacity. It is only by
regularly attempting to go beyond
your existing capacity that inroads
are made into your body's
reserves.”
Mike Mentzer

36. Wisdom Of
The Masters
“ The truth I’ve discovered is that you
don’t have to lift enormous weights to
grow muscle. By using stricter form,
slower negatives, and stretching
between sets you can get an incredible
pump in all your workouts. Numbers
are an abstraction, especially to
muscles. Your body doesn’t know the
absolute weight of what you lift, it only
recognises how heavy it feels. The
secret is to make lighter weights feel
heavier.”
Frank Zane

37. Wisdom Of The Masters
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