Dan John Quotes

If it's important do it everyday.

I only judge people by the depth of their squat.

Constantly strive for mastery and grace.

I said it was simple. Not easy.

Most new trainers agonize over the perfect workout, over-train virtually everyone and are the crazy purist idiots who embarrass themselves at restaurants trying to impress everyone with how clean they eat.

Unfortunately, many people think they're undertraining all the time because they don't puke every workout, the world record doesn't fall during the session, or a swarm of reporters from People Magazine aren't taking their pictures.

Without challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive.

The best tonic for soreness is to do the movement that got you sore in the first place.

It's hard to peak when you've been training since 1965.

I think there are two keys to success. One is to show up. The other one is to keep going. Most people don't keep going.

As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

Surgery is nature's way of telling us to slow down.

There is a price you pay if you want to train military personnel - they don't all come back.

If you're spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you're not dedicated - you've got a mental disorder.

When things go wrong, simplify.

Come, enter into my imagination and see me as I truly am.

Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.

There's nothing worse than when someone takes a community education course and becomes an expert on how yoga is the best way to burn the visceral fat that's housed deep in your abdomen.

If it is important, do it every day. If it's not important, don't do it at all.

Fat loss is an all-out war. Give it 28 days - only 28 days. Attack it with all you have. It's not a lifestyle choice; it's a battle. Lose fat and then get back into moderation. There's another one for you: moderation. Revelation says it best: 'You are lukewarm and I shall spit you out.' Moderation is for sissies.

Squats don't hurt your knees; what you are doing hurts your knees.

I'm going to try not to be the problem anymore.

Embrace lousy days. I've learned to remind myself easy days are part of the deal, and a great day is just around the corner.