Quotes About Exercise

Jeez Louise. I know why rich people are so thin: it's from trekking around their humongous houses the whole time.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

With my busy schedule, it's impossible to have a set fitness routine. So instead I like to try and incorporate exercise into my daily life whenever I can - which requires some creativity.

In pursuit of a more natural life, perhaps we ought to sit a little less and sweat a little more.

Yoga is a life-saver.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

I can always use a good chest fly in my life

Milk is a really important part of my diet. For London, I had to be in the best shape of my life, and having milk every day played a part in that.

I think the most important thing in life is your health. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything.

Any woman can make pole dancing a regular part of their exercise routine - and a fun part of their romantic life!

I've been into exercise my whole life, been a runner and been into health and fitness always.

I think I have just evolved as a person, as a human being. I like fitness. It's an important part of my everyday life, and I enjoy and endorse a healthy lifestyle.

Life isn't a life without fitness.

Life moves for people who move their bodies!

I love to dance daily.

When the brain is fully working, it uses more energy per unit of tissue weight than a fully exercising quadricep.

A lifetime of exercise can result in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.

Just about every mental test possible was tried. No matter how it was measured, the answer was consistently yes: A lifetime of exercise results in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.

Imaging studies have shown that exercise increases blood volume in a region of the brain called the dentate gyrus. That's a big deal. The dentate gyrus is a vital constituent of the hippocampus, a region deeply involved in memory formation.

One of the greatest predictors of successful aging, they found, is the presence or absence of a sedentary lifestyle.

the laboratory, the gold standard appears to be aerobic exercise, 30 minutes at a clip, two or three times a week. Add a strengthening regimen and you get even more cognitive benefit.

In the laboratory, the gold standard appears to be aerobic exercise, 30 minutes at a clip, two or three times a week. Add a strengthening regimen and you get even more cognitive benefit.

Essentially, exercise improves a whole host of abilities prized in the classroom and at work.

The researchers consistently found that all kinds of mental abilities began to come back online—after as little as four months of aerobic exercise. A different study looked at school-age children. Children jogged for 30 minutes two or three times a week. After 12 weeks, their cognitive performance had improved significantly compared with prejogging levels. When the exercise program was withdrawn, the scores plummeted back to their preexperiment levels.