Muscle Tonus Quotes

Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the system of valves makes of the veins of every muscle a very effective pump, capable of maintaining a low pressure in the muscle capillaries. ~ August Krogh

When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the muscle. ~ Lee Haney

I know I'm not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars. ~ Joe Biden

Creativity is a muscle, and when we flex the muscle of our imagination, we find inspiration. ~ Inbar Shahar

I don't want to be all power and muscle. ~ Shawn Johnson

The mind is a muscle. ~ Robert Wilson

The labourer's muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow. ~ Richard Jefferies

It's amazing what a bit of soot and shaving can do for muscle definition, honestly. ~ Joe Dempsie

A muscle becomes weak if it is not used. To become strong, a muscle must push against something. ~ Billy Graham

Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness. ~ Astro Teller

Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Most female models don't have any muscle mass. ~ Andrej Pejic

I love American muscle cars. It's my thing. ~ Brody Jenner

Freedom is a muscle ... you have to exercise it. ~ Roy Scheider

I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often. ~ Hill Harper

When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a lot of muscle in high school. ~ Ashley Greene

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies. ~ Neil Gaiman

Muscle and water is critical in burning fat. ~ Lee Haney

Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations. ~ Jesse Ventura

Make time to write every day. The writing muscle is like any other muscle; the more you exercise it, the stronger it becomes. ~ Judy Penz Sheluk

There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle. ~ Peter Brimelow

We all have the muscle of creativity in our minds, but for it to consistently give great results it needs daily exercise. ~ Yusuf A. Leinge

Most of us have just learned to exercise our survival muscle. It's time to build our victory muscle. ~ Iyanla Vanzant

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. ~ Martin Farquhar Tupper

I don't know what cancer did to me but I put on probably 10 pounds of muscle and got a lot stronger in the weight room and during our dry-land stuff. ~ Eric Shanteau

My favorite muscle to train is TRICEPS! Always has been my stongest muscle group as well. ~ Scott Herman

Relationships are like muscle tissue. The more they're engaged, the stronger they become. The ability to build relationships and flex that emotional connection muscle is what makes social so valuable. ~ Ted Rubin

That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising. ~ Charles Scott Sherrington

She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone. ~ Veronica Roth

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him. ~ David Bowie

I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area. ~ Tyra Banks

Circumstances that weigh you down and obstacles that block your path are God's way of building spiritual muscle. Shortcuts and escape routes won't build the stamina you'll need to complete the course. ~ Deb Brammer

Knowledge is only a rumor until it is in the muscle. ~ Papua New Guinea Proverb

I'm already a tiny person, so now I'm trying to go to the gym to add muscle. I need it! ~ Alexa Vega

When a trigger point is present, numerous sarcomeres are contracted into a small, thickened area and the rest of the sarcomeres in the myofibril are stretched thin. Several of these contractures in the same area are probably what we feel as a "knot" or "tight band" in the muscle. These muscle fibers are not available for use because they are already contracted, which is why you cannot condition (strengthen) a muscle that contains trigger points. ~ Valerie Delaune

I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle. ~ Apolo Ohno

With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars. ~ Michael Symon

I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat. ~ John Swartzwelder

They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years. ~ Jack LaLanne

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. ~ Paavo Nurmi

Of course, she should have known better than to go out with one of the muscle heads from her gym...It was a shame that a brain was optional equipment on his model, and he had not paid for the upgrade. ~ Julia Mills

Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn't go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes. ~ Sharon Salzberg

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It takes strength to move between opposites, between safety and danger, steeping and swimming, 'x' and 'y,' love and love. ~ Randon Billings Noble

Each time you put the muscle back on, your body has that muscle memory and wants to hang on to it, so you just have be well underfed and over-trained to get it off and it's exhausting. ~ Chris Hemsworth

They say you only go around once, but with a muscle car you can go around two or three times. ~ Tim Allen

If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia. ~ Jack White

Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off. ~ Abby Wambach

I'm heavier, but with muscle rather than flab. It's a massive difference. It means I don't get as tired sometimes and it means that I'm hitting the ball a lot farther, about 15 yards more with my driver. ~ Lee Westwood

Some strip joints called themselves "gentlemen's clubs," and businessmen wore suits and acted above the riffraff. There was no such pretense at the Eager Beaver. This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth. People fought. The bouncers had bigger guts than muscle because muscle was show and these guys would seriously kick your ass. Olivia ~ Harlan Coben

Being happy has -huge- advantages. One, you smile more. Training of facial muscles. Automatic! But did you know that the risible muscle, the one that gets the biggest benefit, is part of the stomach muscles? Yes. Stomach training. Up and down. ~ René Friedrich

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it. ~ Kevin Spacey

Observation is like a muscle. It grows stronger with use and atrophies without use. Exercise your observation muscle and you will become a more powerful decoder of the world around you. ~ Joe Navarro

When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.' ~ Chris Evans

I never focus on contraction. I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle. ~ Ronnie Coleman

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

Does it matter that people and things
Have words,
Have names?
If not,
Why read any book?
A litany of useless letters
Detached from bone, muscle.
Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,
Person
Real? ~ Stasia Ward Kehoe

When I started modelling, I'd raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don't have to do much to have muscles. It's just genetic. ~ Grace Jones

You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic. ~ Ben Wheatley

The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle mass, and joints worn out from overuse during a lifetime of bipedal locomotion. It might have worked great for prehistoric humans, but it wreaks havoc on our knees and hips. ~ S. Jay Olshansky

I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do. ~ Arjun Rampal

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I am five foot six, I am built of muscle and bone, and that is not very good for fashion, but it's who I am. Women who look good in fashion are six foot tall, don't have an ounce of muscle, and their legs are the size of my arm. ~ Evangeline Lilly

To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all the time can find disadvantages and it's own consequences. ~ Deyth Banger

Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday. ~ Barry Manilow

The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse. ~ Price Pritchett

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day. ~ Roger Von Oech

The buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral. That was another of Cody's metaphors for it; I'd said the sensation felt like an unbalanced washing machine filled with a hundred epileptic chimpanzees. Pretty proud of that one. ~ Brandon Sanderson

I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense. ~ Charlene Tilton

I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging. ~ Sam Worthington

A genuine smile involves two facial muscles: (1) the zygomatic major muscle, which stretches from the cheekbone and lifts the corners of the mouth; and (2) the outer part of the obicularis oculi muscle, which orbits the eye, and is involved in "pulling down the eyebrows and the skin below the eyebrows, pulling up the skin below the eye, and raising the cheeks."7 Artificial smiles involve only the zygomatic major. ~ Daniel H. Pink

I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy. ~ Anthony Mackie

We need greater amounts of force in order to convince our bodies to recruit the big, powerful, type 2 muscle fibers. In order to increase force we can manipulate two factors, either mass (the amount of weight you are lifting) or acceleration (how fast you are lifting that weight). We also know that the bigger muscle groups can produce more force by working together than in isolation. ~ Alexx Leyva

The Give and Take Athletic Association lived up to its name. The hall of the association in Orchard street was fitted out with muscle- making inventions. With the fibres thus builded up the members were wont to engage the police and rival social and athletic organisations in joyous combat. Between these more serious occupations the Saturday night hop with the paper-box factory girls came as a refining influence and as an efficient screen. ~ O. Henry

While we revel in the passion of the 'moment' braving the whirlpool of time, a flow of vibrations may surprise us and reveal unsuspected power in our inner self, giving us muscle and confidence. (" Swim or sink") ~ Erik Pevernagie

Muscle is good, but craft is better ~ Wace

Unlike motivation, willpower can be strengthened like a muscle. ~ Stephen Guise

My imagination is the most powerful muscle I possess. ~ Jessica Khoury

Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in the muscle. ~ Brene Brown

His skin was furred like that of a horse. Snakes danced and hissed from his head, their thin bodies acting as his hair. Two long fangs protruded over his bottom lip. He had human hands, but his feet were hooves. Muscle was stacked upon muscle on his torso, and his nipples were pierced by two large silver rings. Metal chains circled his neck, wrists and ankles, and those chains kept him tethered to the pillars. "Who are you?" Strider demanded. No need to ask what the thing was. Ugly as shit covered it. He ~ Gena Showalter

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it. ~ Robert Gass

Vegetables, grains, and legumes contain all the amino acids necessary to build muscle from scratch. Like ~ Christopher McDougall

But like most actions that rely on faith, it still took plenty of our own muscle and ingenuity. ~ Heather Lende

I love muscle cars. ~ Jaci Burton

Competitive rowing is an undertaking of extraordinary beauty preceded by brutal punishment. Unlike most sports, which draw primarily on particular muscle groups, rowing makes heavy and repeated use of virtually every muscle in the body, despite the fact that a rower, as Al Ulbrickson liked to put it, "scrimmages on his posterior annex." And rowing makes these muscular demands not at odd intervals but in rapid sequence, over a protracted period of time, repeatedly and without respite. On one occasion, after watching the Washington freshmen practice, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Royal Brougham marveled at the relentlessness of the ~ Daniel James Brown

Why do you like show jumping?"
" ... Beauty and excitement. The elements of trust, talent, training, love, and danger make show jumping a thrilling and aesthetic experience. It's really the ultimate test of two nervous systems
the kinetic transfer of the rider's muscle to the horse's muscle enables them to clear those jumps. And there's nothing like it
horse and rider forming an arc of beauty, efficiency, and power, like a double helix."
"DNA,"
"Yes, DNA, the code to life. ~ Ainslie Sheridan

If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago. ~ Brodi Ashton

Her mind. It was far stronger than any muscle in her body. ~ Cecelia Ahern

A hundred-eighty pounds of dead weight - all muscle - to ~ J.D. Robb

She's the muscle. I'm clearly the charm. ~ Kerri Maniscalco

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use. ~ Ruth Gordon

The mind, like any muscle, must be exercised. ~ Marshall Sylver

Failure builds muscle,
determination, and dreams. ~ Michael Jordan

Think of anger as a muscle. The way you express anger isn't the way that I do, or you. If you have a good director, you will find that he's getting you to use an entirely different muscle that you never even knew you had - it's real hard and sore, then after a while it becomes normal. And you discover all these new muscles when you enter a new character - that's what a director does for you. ~ Jane Fonda

At first glance you looked at Kate and thought "fighter," maybe merc. Five inches taller than me, she was all muscle - well, and some boobs - but mostly muscle. She moved like a predator and when she got pissed off, she exhaled aggression, like hot breath on a winter evening. Still, men looked, until they saw her eyes. Kate's eyes were crazy. It was that hidden-deep crazy that told you that you had no idea what the hell she would do next but whatever it was, the bad guys wouldn't like it. ~ Ilona Andrews

I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are. ~ Ludacris

To go, Pop. Every muscle is ready. WILLY [at the edge of the apron]: You realize what ~ Arthur Miller

made me wonder whether our ability and desire to interact with strangers is another muscle that risks atrophy in the smartphone world. ~ Aziz Ansari

Do as many sets as you need to complete at least 25 repetitions for a muscle group. So ~ Adam Campbell

We are all born with a muscle for courage, but our education has wasted it away. ~ Will Jelbert

Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body. ~ Lynn Jennings