No pain, no gain

No pain, no gain (or "No gain without pain") is an exercise motto that promises greater value rewards for the price of hard and even painful work. Under this conception competitive professionals, such as athletes and artists, are required to endure pain and pressure to achieve professional excellence.

Exercise motto

It came into prominence after 1982 when actress Jane Fonda began to produce a series of aerobics workout videos. In these videos, Fonda would use "No pain, no gain" and "Feel the burn" as catchphrases for the concept of working out past the point of experiencing muscle aches.

It expresses the belief that solid large muscle is the result of training hard. Delayed onset muscle soreness is often used as a measure of the effectiveness of a workout.

In terms of the expression used for development, the discomfort caused may be beneficial in some instances while detrimental in others. Detrimental pain can include joint pain; beneficial pain usually refers to that resulting from tearing microscopic muscle fibers, which will be rebuilt more densely, making a bigger muscle.

No pain, no gain (disambiguation)

No pain, no gain is an exercise motto.

It can also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Film

  • No Pain, No Gain (film), a 2005 comedy-drama film
  • Literature

  • no pain, no gain - line 945 from the play Electra (5th Century B.C.) by Sophocles
  • Music

    Albums

  • No Pain No Gain (album), a 1998 album by Ghetto Twiinz
  • "No Pain, No Gain", a song from Keel album The Final Frontier (1986)
  • Songs

  • "No Pain No Gain", a 1987 single by The Whispers
  • "No Pain No Gain," a 1988 hit single by Betty Wright
  • "No Pain No Gain", a song from the 1988 album Prison Bound by Social Distortion
  • "No Pain No Gain", a song from the 1993 album Face the Heat by the Scorpions
  • "No Pain No Gain", a song from the 1994 album Funk Upon a Rhyme by Kokane
  • "No Pain No Gain", a song from the 1998 album Till My Casket Drops by C-Bo
  • "No Pain No Gain", a song from the 1998 album Everything Louder by Raven (British band)
  • "No Pain, No Gain", a song from the 2006 album GEM (Beni Arashiro)
  • "No Pain, No Gain", title of two tracks on the 2007 single "Luna" (Beni Arashiro song)
  • No Pain, No Gain (film)

    No Pain, No Gain is a 2005 American comedy-drama film starring Gus Malliarodakis, Joe Hursley, Julie Strain, Harry Knowles, Lauren Powers, Toni Ferrai, co-written by Samuel Turcotte and Jodi Lane Baum and directed by Samuel Turcotte.

    Plot

    The story of a bodybuilder who longs to be respected for his mind. Mike Zorillo, a small town Ohio champion bodybuilder with a genius IQ, journeys to the Mecca of bodybuilding, Los Angeles, determined to beat his nemesis, Jake Steel, with natural science instead of steroids. Far from home, he's confronted by a gym culture of freaks, juicers and Hollywood wannabes. As he pursues his dream, he's also persecuted by the world's largest sports nutrition company, an entity that's hell-bent on destroying him. Against all odds, the honest and driven bodybuilder resolves to win the prestigious "Mr. West Coast" competition as a way to prove himself and his ideas to the world.

    References

    External links

  • Official website
  • No Pain, No Gain at the Internet Movie Database
  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    No Pain No Gain

    by: Raven

    Each time like the first time last shot that I'll get
    Got to hit the target I aint got no safety net
    Taking all the chances put that foot down to the floor
    If nothing else I Know theres just one way to go
    Its my philosophy
    Push hard - You'll see
    That its meant to be
    No pain no gain
    You pick yourself up and you do it again
    No rest never stop
    Like I told you gonna rock until I drop
    Feel down from the mountain bleeding on the floor
    I can hear them laughing but they don't known the score
    Work my fingers break your bones 7 I'll
    Knock down that door
    They think thats its a sin to have the will to win
    Its my philosophy




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