Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.
A lot of times in America, we work on bully muscles. We want the big muscles and the stuff that looks good. But we don't focus on the little things. But that's the stuff that sustains you and keeps you strong.
You have to train hard and be strong while staying flexible and limber, so I'm trying to find that balance.
I'm pretty athletic, but I'm not very strong.
Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.
I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.
I use very few muscles at the best of times.
I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.
When I was younger, I did not have the strength to jump well enough, but over the years I have gained that, worked on it. But the sensibility you simply have to have.
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
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