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Bodybuilding Quotes and Bodybuilder Captions

These bodybuilding quotes and captions serve to inspire and motivate you and others to reach your fitness goals.

When you set about to improve the state of your fitness, it requires some hard work. Consistent motivation is a key element to the achievement of your objectives. We hope these quotes and captions serve that role.

Ten Best Bodybuilding Quotes

The intensity builds immensity.
Kevin Levrone

The road to nowhere is paved with excuses.
Mark Bell

When you have a well-developed body and you’re confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell

Bodybuilding is an art; your body is the canvas, weights are your brush, and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self-portrait into a masterpiece.
Kai Greene

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you. Not the other way around.
Jack Lalanne

If you want something you’ve never had before, you have to be willing to do something you’ve never done before.
Phil Heath

Discipline is the bridge between your bodybuilding goals and bodybuilding success.
Felicity Luckey

Some are born strong, and others are made strong.
J.R. Rim

Good bodybuilding quotes.

Funny Bodybuilding Quotes

Exercise in the morning before your brain figures out what you’re doing.
Unknown

If you want to get in shape, don’t sign up for a fancy diet this or cross that the other thing. No, the way to get in shape is to go to the gym every single day, change your clothes, and take a shower. If you can do that every single day for a month, pretty soon, you’ll start doing something while you’re there.
Seth Godin

I only worked out because I really, really like donuts.
Unknown

My doctor recently told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.
Milton Berle

If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all.
Joey Adams

When people ask me if I exercise, I tell them I do crunches every day – especially Captain Crunch and Nestle Crunch.
Unknown

Gym Rule #1: If you want to know the correct way to perform an exercise, the answer is: Whatever hurts most.
Jason Love

When you’re old, you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.
Garrison Keillor

When I feel like exercising, I just lie down until the feeling goes away.
Robert M. Hutchins

Eat clean, stay fit, and have a burger to stay sane.
Gigi Hadid

You ever look for the remote control, but you can’t find it, so you just decide, ‘Ah, guess I’m not watching TV. I’m not gonna take two steps and turn it on myself. I’ll go to the gym if I’m going to work out.’
Jim Gaffigan

Good Bodybuilder Sayings

Rule of thumb: Eat for what you’re going to be doing and not for what you have done. Don’t take in more than you’re willing to burn off.
Lee Haney

As your bodybuilding aims become higher, obviously, you have to work harder until, believe it or not, you are performing from 20-30 sets of both biceps and triceps three workouts per week.
Reg Park

Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren’t prepared to go is what will make you great.
Laurence Shahlaei

Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we’re never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder but don’t nobody want to lift heavy ass weights!
Ronnie Coleman

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
Camille Paglia

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

Self-discipline is about controlling your desires and impulses while staying focused on what needs to get done to achieve your goal.
Adam Sicinski

Short Bodybuilding Quotes

Pain is temporary; pride is forever.
Unknown

Fitness: If it came in a bottle, everyone would have a great body.
Cher

Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.
Mark Rippetoe

Winners focus on winning, and losers focus on winners.
Unknown

Choosing a bodybuilding goal and sticking to it changes everything.
Felicity Luckey

Sell yourself short on nutrition, and you’re selling yourself short on maximizing your physique development.
Ernie Taylor

Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.
Dwayne ‘The Rock” Johnson

Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.
Jim Rohn

Don’t be scared to lift heavy! You won’t get huge and bulky; you’ll get amazing.
Jessie Hilgenberg

Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.
Ed Coan

Fitness Insights

The real workout starts when you want to stop.
Ronnie Coleman

If you think lifting weights is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous.
Bret Contreras

It’s pretty hard to stop a man who does not know the meaning of the word quit.
Branch Warren

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Jesse Owens

Don’t let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of yours.
Flex Lewis

When you hit failure, your workout has just begun.
Ronnie Coleman

Bodybuilding isn’t 90 minutes in the gym. It’s a lifestyle.
Lee Priest

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The first and greatest victory is to conquer self.
Plato

To be a champion, you must act like a champion.
Lou Ferrigno

There are two types of pains, one that hurts you and the other that changes you.
Unknown

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand

Motivational Sayings

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Half-reps may build your ego, but they also build half a physique.
Craig Cecil

All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal.
Dorian Yates

Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
Muhammad Ali

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet, and mental approach.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi

Being negative and lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardships, depression, poor health, and failure. Be proactive and give a damn to achieve success!
Phil Heath

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.
Unknown

There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To be number one, you have to train like you are number two.
Maurice Green

You have to be at your strongest when you’re feeling at your weakest.
Unknown

Failure is a success in progress.
Albert Einstein

When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed.
Jeffrey Walker

The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment.
Justin Langer

Stimulate. Don’t annihilate.
Lee Haney

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

If you’re capable of sending a legible text message between sets, you probably aren’t working hard enough.
Dave Tate

You Design Yourself - Bodybuilding

Inspirational Quotations

It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. What you need is what I had – belief in yourself!
Branch Warren

Your body is a piece of art, but it’s always a work in progress. You are never done improving your symmetry and eliminating weak points.
Morgan Aste

If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard; you’ll be hard to beat.
Herschel Walker

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it as long as you really believe 100 percent.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.
Felicity Luckey

Fortunately, there is a solution, and it’s not performing multiple sets of whatever cable Kegel exercise is being pushed as The Answer—just a little hard, smart, basic work.
Jim Wendler

The application of consistent, logical effort over a prolonged period is the key to reaching your physical muscular potential.
Craig Cecil

Victory isn’t defined by wins and losses; it’s defined by effort.
Kai Greene

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

Not only are squats not bad for the knees, but every legitimate research study on this subject has also shown that squats improve knee stability and therefore help reduce the risk of injuries.
Charles Poliquin

If you have discipline, drive, determination, nothing is impossible.
Dana Linn

Bodybuilding Captions

  • Well, it’s not going to lift itself.
  • Resting Gym Face.
  • Getting Dino-sore.
  • You design yourself.
  • Bro’s got biceps.
  • Hulking up.
  • Go hard or go home.
  • Boss!
  • Deadlifts don’t like you either.
  • One More Rep.
  • Pump Day!
  • Hustle for Muscle.
  • Beast Mode: ON.
  • Pretty and Powerful.
  • I count in 45-pound increments.
  • Biceps don’t grow on trees.
  • It’s Monday… no more excuses
  • I lift for my health.
  • Iron addict.
  • Shut up and squat.
  • Weights before dates.
  • It’s a hill… get over it.
  • I’d flex but I like this shirt.
  • Weapons of mass destruction.
  • Sore today, strong tomorrow.
  • Swole.
  • Still waiting for my muscles to grow.
Best Bodybuilding captions for Instagram

Weightlifting Instagram Captions

  • I don’t have time to lift… I make time.
  • Two bodybuilders walk into a bar; “Ouch,” says the bar.
  • I got 99 problems but I’m going to the gym and ignoring all of them.
  • Dear fat, prepare to die! XO, me.
  • Sun’s out guns out.
  • Dig Deep!
  • Why do I spend so much time in the gym? I prefer dumbbells over dumbasses.
  • Lift heavy, work hard, and aim to be the best.
  • Meet me at the bar.
  • The Incredible Bulk.
  • Under the Bar.
  • Time for a throwdown.
  • Killing it!
  • The Lift Life.
  • That was a real knee-buckler!
  • Rise up. Get ready. Time to kill those weights again.
  • Good things come to those who sweat.
  • Load it up.
  • I can and I will.
  • No pain, no gain.

By Sam Miller

Sam writes about sports, conditioning, and health.

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