Quotes About Exercise

I guess I had to learn how to run properly. I spent a lot of time on a giant treadmill, like one of those wheels mice run around on, and got filmed doing it to improve my form.

The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.

A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dreaming" time.

I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

Calisthenics:

She wears latex bicycle shorts nearly every day, and I will tell you why: because she can. I consider it an act of aggression against the rest of us mothers who forgot to start working out after we had kids.

I am positive of only a few things in life, and one is that if you want to have a decent middle and old age, you have to get exercise almost every day.

Someone who'd spent $30,000 at a diet hospital told me the secret: Eat less, exercise more. Oh, and here's $5,000 worth of cutting edge advice: drink more water.

He flicked off the light switch, setting the alarm system. Overhead he could hear Reno—music that could only be Japanese hip-hop, for God's sake, and thumps and bumps. Either he had half a dozen girls up there on the floor and he was doing them one by one, or he was doing some sort of exercise. Or dancing. The thought of Reno dancing was enough to send cold shivers down Peter's spine. He preferred the notion of an orgy.

Lindsey hates to write lyrics, though. Maybe that's why some of his songs are so negative. [Laughs] He'll have all these beautiful songs that are instrumentals for months. They have gorgeous melodies, layer upon layer of guitars. I exercise to his tapes, practice ballet to them. Then he'll write the lyrics for this beautiful song and it'll have a different feeling than the music.

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

When I see a non-yogi [benefit], that's when it really affects my life.

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books.

I live in Los Angeles and I like to do a lot of hiking. I live a very relaxed life.

Honor your body. Keep it in good shape. It is the most important physical tool that you have. Exercise is the meditation of the body. It allows you to feel Oneness with all of Life.

Are you truly dirty if you don't take a shower every day? No, but you feel that way. It's the same with running. Just like a shower, running is part of my daily life.

I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life at 45 ... I didn't know this exercise thing felt so good.

Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.

I don't have stamina in exercise...but I have it in life.

Your bones are for life. Look after them and they will carry you far.

I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.

One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?

I've been an exercise maniac most of my adult life, running marathons and triathlons, doing that as a regular way of life. I ran eight miles a day, every day for 29 years.