A Garage Gym is not truly complete without some sort of motivational object or quote. Personally I use a combination of a T-Shirt (read my post: A Strong(er) 2012) and different quotes posted all around my garage gym. Maybe one of these quotes is garage gym frame worthy to you, or perhaps you can add to the list of twenty one.
1.) “Typically the worlds best athletes are minimalists when it comes to their training. They work hard and fast with few exercises. They master the fundamentals and work with them for years. This is the secret that no one wants to hear.”
– Greg Glassman, Founder of CrossFit
2.) “Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.”
– Mark Rippetoe
3.) “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
– Lance Armstrong
4.) “To me, the best exercise for this is running. Running is so important that you should keep it up during your lifetime. What time of the day you run is not important as long as you run.”
– Bruce Lee
When asked, You don’t fall on the ground and breathe heavy after a [CrossFit] workout?
5.) “No. When animals surrender they go lying on their back. I never go lying on my back. It’s a sign of weakness and surrendering. Never lying on my back.”
– Mikko Salo, 2009 CrossFit Games Champion
6.) “Rather the pain of discipline, than the pain of regret.”
– Bob Andrews
7.) “I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.”
– Vince Lombardi
8.) “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
– Albert Einstein
9.) “If you don’t know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.”
– Yogi Berra
10.) “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain
11.) “There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.”
– Mark Rippetoe
12.) “To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
13.) “Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”
– Thomas Jefferson
14. ) Newb: “Got any good ab exercises?”
Rip: “Got any better questions?”
– Mark Rippetoe
15.) “…only bodybuilders are careful not to work the entire body in a workout. This is one of the key distinctions between athletes and bodybuilders.”
– Greg Glassman, Founder of CrossFit
16.) “Failure is not an option!”
– U.S Navy Seals
17.) “They think because I’m small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I’m not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they’re shoulder, they’re going to go down.”
– Michael Johnson
18.) “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”
– Victor Kiam
19.) “A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.”
– Paul Dudley White
20.) “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan
21.) “I’m giving CrossFit a chance for now, and then later on, who knows.”
– Annie Thorisdottir, 2011 CrossFit Games Champion
Do you have a frame worthy garage gym quote? Add to comments.