Quotes About Activity

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

The most stupid thing that a man can do in life is be bored.

Nordic walking engages 90% of your body in motion, so that means you are working out the entire body. The muscles

Nordic walking by default improves your posture because of the way you need to move with the walking poles. Aside

I got into tennis because of my parents. They would play a little on the weekend and I liked it when I played.

Since I finished in football Ive had no sport in my life, no football. Ive always been geared towards something for the weekend, always had competition.

On the weekends, some people garden; I slice salmon.

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

Cities can be paradoxical places. In the mornings they buzz with commuters, in the evenings they come alive with diners and partygoers, at weekends the streets fill with shoppers and market traders. But amidst the hustle and bustle, even the greatest city can be a lonely place.

Sometimes I wake up and stretch and do 20 minutes on the treadmill, or anything to just break a sweat. And then I have the weekends where I can get out and play nine holes and maybe go to the gym.

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always 'Out of the house!' There was no watching television on weekends.

I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

I think it's important to incorporate everything into all parts of your life. I don't separate all the things - during the day, I talk to my kids; they come and visit. On weekends, we go crazy and do lots of activities. I'm just not good at relaxing.

On weekends, I'm chasing my six-year-old girls around the city. That's my cardio!

I'm happy to be alive and to play any sport and, really, I wouldn't mind working for a living and playing at weekends.

It is so important to be active when you are young, and I think it would have helped me tenfold if, alongside 'Popworld,' school, T4, Radio One and all those other things I was doing, that I had played a bit of sport at the weekends with my friends.

I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp.

I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market.

A sponge is quite simple. You weigh ingredients, mix, and put it in the oven. With pastry, you manhandle it, shape it, fold it. You have to be involved with it; there is more jeopardy, more risk. But it's like making a casserole. There's a flurry of activity to begin with; then it's about leaving it to rest.

As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.

I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.

Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.