Top 35 Gunnar Peterson Quotes

You need to lift weights and do more resistance training. Get more sleep. I’m the first one who‘s guilty of not doing that, but I work on it, and I’m aware of it. And drink more water. Drink Propel. You have to hydrate. You simply can’t perform at the level you could perform at if you’re dehydrated. Period.

Combination movements will give you the most bang for your buck.

Not to sound corny, but if life is a sport, if you’re moving to dive on a fumble or pick up a basketball in transition or pivoting to grab your toddler so he doesn’t fall into a pool… those are real life movements.

There’s so much you can do with bodyweight alone. The basics always come up for a reason: sit-ups, planks, push-ups. They’ll always give you results. The way to take it up a notch is to compound the basics to work multiple muscle groups at once.

America wasn’t made on blame; it was made on responsibility. Take off the training wheels in life and decide to take responsibility for your actions.

Home workouts are great, but if you can get out, that’s even better. If you tell yourself you’re going to go do planks in the spare bedroom, you might get interrupted and not get your workout in.

Protein helps your insulin levels not spike and helps you not store your food as fat.

Hydration is everything. Think of this: your muscles are 70-plus percent water – how are you not drinking water during a workout? I get the whole, ‘Let’s challenge ourselves; let’s do that prison, tough guy thing,’ but at the end of the day, you’re underperforming.

Remember that everything you do in the gym makes a difference in the way you live your life outside of the gym. The brownie tastes better when there’s no guilt for eating it. Your relationships with other people are more satisfying.

I think it’s good for people sometimes to get out of their own environments – there are less distractions.

I try to do the right thing. If you do what you know is right, and you’re a good person, you might not win short-term all the time, and financial gains might not be there all the time, but ultimately, you can be pretty happy, and you can do some pretty good things in the world. Keep a positive outlook.

Kellan Gillis was the first celebrity that I worked with – that didn’t hurt. Working out after that with Jennifer Lopez was huge in terms of just the platform it gives you. So I think when you get those opportunities, you have to be respectful of them, and you have to try not to just cash out.

The key to anyone‘s success is staying with it!

Use music to motivate you. If I had to pick one song to work out to on repeat, it would be Prince’s ‘Let’s Go Crazy.’

The Gunnar Challenge offers new workouts every day, a meal plan and daily ‘verbal vitamins,’ which are a motivational video or workout tip. The thing that really makes the program work is the forum, where Challengers can communicate with each other and with me.

Even if you can’t do a full real push-up, I’d rather have you do them with a limited range of motion and work up to the perfect pushup then do them on your knees, where you probably won‘t progress at the rate that you could.

I usually suggest that people do their steady-state cardio on the days that they’re not with me; they really don’t need a cardio babysitter. When working with athletes, I try to pair the interval with the exertion patterns of their respective sport.

There are 800 some muscles, 200 some bones. Your body works in three planes of motion: arms, legs – pentadactyl limbs. That’s what we’re working with.

I get tired when I keep shorting my sleep, but I always make it to the gym. In our house, we live by this: ‘Never quit, never cancel, never be late.’ We’ve found it’s a great way to live.

Try training on an empty stomach, if it is just this kind of resistance training workout, so that your body fat is sacrificed as a fuel source. Then, immediately post-workout, make sure you take in all three of your macronutrients.

I am a big believer in taking responsibility for your actions. I tell my kids every day to ‘own it’ – ‘it’ being whatever they’ve said or done. At some point in your life, you are in charge. You call the shots. You decide to eat or not eat.

SleepScore Max empowers me to identify my own sleep issues and gives me advice for better sleep to maximize my performance every day. It’s critical to measure and quantify improvements while training.

People tend to shy away from rotation with resistance because they think they’re going to get hurt. Like, ‘If I move in that motion with that weight, I’m going to pull my back.’ But you’re not.

You can make more money – you can buy a new body – but you can’t buy time. If you are wasting it, make different choices. Don’t wait.

I try to take the approach that everyone really is an athlete at some level. I mean, we were all on the playground in the beginning. Some of us just stayed there.

I’m a firm believer in trying to make something that might not be considered fun by a lot of people fun. And hopefully, that makes the person have a positive association with it, and they want to come back.

You don’t have to be built like Karl Malone to be strong. There are thinner guys who are really strong. Kevin Durant, who I used to work with, has real strength to his body.

I would love to eat my body weight in chocolate chip cookies, french fries, and peanut butter, but I don’t. I choose not to. That’s on me, just like it’s on me if I choose to do it.

I don t have a scale; I’m not big on measurements. Until a person looks in the mirror and is happy with themselves, you have not reached your fitness goals.

Protein is key in my opinion. Vegetables are a must. Complex carbohydrates have to be used at the right time. Stay away from processed foods, refined sugars, and fruit juices.

If you’re always trying to do a good job, then something good is going to come from it.

Everybody comes in with a certain goal. Some are performance, some are aesthetic. Even athletes have aesthetic goals, but first and foremost, they have performance goals, and those need to be addressed. They have weaknesses that need to be shored up. You have to manage expectations sometimes.

Sleep plays an important role in overall well-being and especially in recovery during particularly intense training.

My mom – when I complained about my weight, she asked me if I wanted to keep complaining or do something about it. Then she took me to Weight Watchers when I was 10 years old, meetings and all!

People who are at the top have no problem being vulnerable and putting themselves in a position to fail. That’s why they have the success that they have.