Dan John Quotes & Sayings

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

Make yourself a slave to good habits — Dan John

Just tell me what to do. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I don't want to be here. — Dan John

I don't care what you bench. I care if you have friends and family you love, a career that you love, and helped someone you don't know today. — Dan John

Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts. — Dan John

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

Constantly strive for mastery and grace. — Dan John

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. — Dan John

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. — Dan John

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. — Dan John

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. — Dan John

Please understand nearly every concept I hold near and dear has been stolen from others much brighter and better than me. — Dan John

I only judge people by the depth of their squat. — Dan John

If it is important do it everyday — Dan John

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

The Goal is the keep the GOAL the GOAL — Dan John

The problem with values is that everybody has them, but nobody has the same order. — Dan John

There are "bus bench" workouts and "park bench" workouts. A bus bench and a park bench look exactly the same, but your expectations sitting in them are radically different. — Dan John

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. — Dan John

In a group of five workouts, I tend to have one great workout, the kind of workout that makes me think in just a few weeks I could be an Olympic champion, plus maybe Mr. Olympia. Then, I have one workout that's so awful the mere fact I continue to exist as a somewhat higher form of life is a miracle. Finally, the other three workouts are the punch-the-clock workouts: I go in, work out, and walk out. Most people experience this. — Dan John

Look at your goals. Look at your behavior. Does your behavior match your goals? — Dan John

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

Honestly, seriously, you don't know what to do about food? Here is an idea: Eat like an adult. Stop eating fast food, stop eating kid's cereal, knock it off with all the sweets and comfort foods whenever your favorite show is not on when you want it on, ease up on the snacking and - don't act like you don't know this - eat vegetables and fruits more. Really, how difficult is this? Stop with the whining. Stop with the excuses. Act like an adult and stop eating like a television commercial. Grow up. — Dan John

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

warned them of getting buttonholed in a job that stopped them from exploring all the directions that life presented — Dan John

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. — Dan John

When things go wrong, simplify. — Dan John

If it's important do it everyday. — Dan John

I said it was simple. Not easy. — Dan John

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

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. — Dan John

The 9th grade was the best three years of my life. I was benching 85 lbs, drug free! — Dan John

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

Their highs are too low and their lows are too high. — Dan John

The problem is yes, everything works. Doing everything at once makes you marginal at everything ... at best. — Dan John

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. — Dan John

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

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