Quotes About Exercise

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic; and certainly to a kingdom or estate, a just and honorable war, is the true exercise. A civil war, indeed, is like the heat of a fever; but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health; for in a slothful peace, both courages will effeminate, and manners corrupt.

It is possible to conceive a character in which but one impulse is ever felt—in which the whole being, as with a single breeze, is carried in a single direction. The only exercise of the will in such a being is in aiding and carrying out the dictates of the single propensity. And this is something.

Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

I cycle, which is a healthy thing for an 80-year-old to do. I rarely go further than five miles, but in those five miles I can get to 80 percent of the places I want to go.

I break out in a rash if I go to the gym; all I did was shave my chest.

I was always a gym rat.

Exercise is the best way to keep you looking young and fresh. It raises your heart rate and boosts your blood circulation.

I don't have any fear. I'm not scared to push myself and run and play and get my heart rate up.

In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.

It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.

Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.

Resting metabolic rate is largely genetically determined, but our calorie intake has an effect as well.

I teach people how to breathe; I teach them how to use dynamic resistance, which is what gets your heart rate jacked up.

Even if you can't do a full real push-up, I'd rather have you do them with a limited range of motion and work up to the perfect pushup then do them on your knees, where you probably won't progress at the rate that you could.

I have a pretty high metabolism rate. So I tend to lose muscle mass if I am not working out.

I ate everything and I never exercised or even went for a walk. I guess I had a great metabolic rate.

Cardio activity burns fat, and when you burn fat while building muscle, you change the ratio of stored fat to lean muscle mass, and your arms appear to be more defined.

Ray Allen is one of the fittest guys in the league.

I feel like when I do some dance moves during the week or at the house, I'm quicker on my feet. I can react quicker just from dancing.

You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if it's nothing but a boring writing exercise for you.

Rarely, Type 2 diabetes develops without any readily identifiable predisposing factor. But in the great majority of cases, it is brought on by lifestyle activities, including, and clearly most importantly, dietary choices.

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

My life is politics, reading books and exercise.