Quotes About Exercise

Fitness is a journey, not a destination; you must continue for the rest of your life.

I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.

My life, since I was 12-years-old, has revolved around some sort of sport, mainly cycling, so when I'm unable to ride my bike I just don't know what to do with myself.

People develop their health habits when they're kids, and that carries through their whole life.

The demands of standing, walking, and running have literally shaped the entire human body from head to toe.

running an entire marathon burns only about 2,600 calories, the equivalent of a day's worth of food. Even worse, body fat is a remarkably good way to store energy: a pound of body fat contains roughly 4,000 calories. That means losing a mere ten pounds is the caloric equivalent of running 13.5 marathons.

Barefoot running is often described as a fad—one that will fizzle after a few years. But as Dr. Lieberman says, "If barefoot running is a fad, then it's a two-million-year-old fad.

Far more calories are used to heat the body than to move it.

Forget about calories and focus on accomplishment: don't take life sitting down. Then, when the day is done, you've earned your rest.

Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

Start with the bow hand close to your body, not extended. Then push with your bow hand and pull with the other. That way you're using the muscles of both arms, not just the string arm.

Religion requires action, labour, diligence; for it does not consist in airy, empty notions and speculations of the head but in the exercise of the mind and heart. Habits must be exerted; grace, improved. Heaven (that is, all uphill) must be strived for and gotten, as it were, by force and victory.

We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.

Faith in God's promise and power will bring a man to submit to the sorest and most trying dispensations of His providence. Or to put it another way: Faith, where it is in exercise, will teach the Christian to say of all God does, "It is well.

As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.

Crystallizing my feelings about the game, I find that squash is less frustrating than golf, less fickle than tennis. It is easier than badminton, cheaper than polo. It is better exercise than bowls, quicker than cricket, less boring than jogging, drier than swimming, safer than hang gliding.

In Britain, doctors now use exercise as a first-line treatment for depression, but it's vastly underutilized in the United States

The best, however, based on everything I've read and seen, would be to do some form of aerobic activity six days a week, for forty-five minutes to an hour. Four of those days should be on the longer side, at moderate intensity, and two on the shorter side, at high

exercise has yet to be embraced as a medical treatment. It doesn't simply raise serotonin or dopamine or norepinephrine. It adjusts all of them, to levels that, we can only presume, have been optimally programmed by evolution.

If everyone knew that exercise worked as well as Zoloft, I think we could put a real dent in the disease. Reading

addition to priming our state of mind, exercise influences learning directly, at the cellular level, improving the brain's potential to log in and process new information.

Just as the mind can affect the body, the body can affect the mind. But the idea that we can alter our mental state by physically moving still has yet to be accepted by most physicians, let alone the broader public.