Quotes About Exercise

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

Good health is the most important thing. More than success. More than money. More than power.

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded to a person; in other words, the weak suffer more, where the trial is the same, than the strong. And, what are the elementary principles, we may ask, which compose human strength? Is it not - more than anything else - exercise, habit, experience?

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. He gains no practice either in discerning or in desiring what is best. The mental and moral, like the muscular powers, are improved only by being used. The faculties are called into no exercise by doing a thing merely because others do it, no more than by believing a thing only because others believe it.

In despotic States the sovereign is so attached to the exercise of his power, that he dislikes the constraint even of his own regulations; and he is well pleased that his agents should follow a somewhat fortuitous line of conduct, provided he be certain that their actions will never counteract his desires.

Despite CIA rhetoric that gave Phoenix a sanitized, technical patina, the program soon devolved into an exercise in brutality that produced many casualties and few verifiable results.

You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what is beyond is tantalizing. You can't quite make it out; and because the imagination is always moving forward, you yourself are constantly stretching. Stories are the way spirit is exercised.

Why have I spent so many hours of my life--very possibly as many as are actually recommended-- exercising ?!

If you haven't got your health you haven't got anything' but it's true. I used to think that physical fitness fanatics were a pain. I used to claim that there was more to life than feeling fit: like booze and smokes.

we neglect what are the best forms of prevention—i.e., promoting exercise, proper diet, moderation in alcohol use, abstention from tobacco and drugs. These extremely useful and remarkably cheap prevention measures aren't profitable for the medical-industrial complex and therefore lack its powerful and well-financed sponsorship.

While none of us can know for sure that running will add years to our life, there's no doubt it will add life to our years.

And, finally, I run because there's no better way to see the sun rise and set.

engaging in brain-healthy habits, such as a proper diet and exercise and certain brain nutrients, is critical to the brain working right.

Applying these recommendations for a 150-pound (68 kg) athlete, the possible range, excluding the U.S. RDA, would be 3 to 6 ounces (84 to 168 g) of protein each day.

No amount of fitness is worth an injury.

Stop when you know you can do only one more interval. The last interval is the one to be most wary of, so simply don't do it.

5º MANDAMIENTO: ENTRENAR EN GRUPO POCAS VECES

Every successful athlete I have trained has lifted weights for at least part of the season.

If three or four extra pounds result from weight training, the increased power typically more than offsets the mass to be carried.

Frequency is one of the best ways to improve your technique and, ultimately, your efficiency. This holds true even if each session is very brief. For example, if you have only two hours a week to devote to becoming a more efficient swimmer, swim four times a week for 30 minutes each time. More frequent, short sessions will improve your efficiency faster than a few longer workouts. Plyometric exercises have also been shown to improve economy in both runners and cyclists. These exercises

As we get older, aerobic capacity usually decreases, dropping by as much as 1 percent per year after age 25 in sedentary people.