Quotes About Exercise

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.

70 percent of long-term gym memberships are mostly unused, but a dog needs walking every day.

Eventually, I decided to count my daily walk or cross-country ski as a treat—my time for myself in a day otherwise filled with responsibilities. Somehow, that made it much easier to make it a priority.

Physical activity is the magical elixir of practically everything.

There are many compelling reasons to exercise, but study after study shows that weight loss isn't one of them. The way to lose weight is to change eating habits.

Maintaining a healthy weight requires us not to follow a temporary diet, but to change our eating habits forever.

Era uno de esos sentimientos puros que no estorban el ejercicio de la vida, que se cultivan porque son raros y cuya pérdida afligiría más de lo que alegraría su posesión.

You're a runner. You probably don't eat carbs, do you?

We're unquestionably more at risk the hour a day that we run," says Paul D. Thompson, MD, director of preventive cardiology at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut, "but the other 23 hours in the day, we are much less at risk. In balance, you're much safer exercising than not exercising.

To become a better runner, you need to: 1) adapt a proper diet, 2) lower body fat, 3) avoid smoking and heavy drinking, 4) obtain adequate sleep, and 5) exercise regularly. Do that, and you also can add years to your life.

Running with a partner or a group can make running more enjoyable. You can gain additional knowledge about the sport, but you also can occupy your mind and make the miles pass faster.

Personally, I have learned to welcome the sensation of boredom when I'm working out because boredom can actually provide opportunities that are relaxing and, dare I say it, even useful.

I'd always hated running. Born-again joggers described how they got addicted to the rapture of running, how they achieved a nirvana known as a runner's high. Right. I'd always firmly believed that--much like the high of auto-asphyxiation--the bliss came more from a lack of oxygen to the brain than any sort of endorphin rush.

Like, at the gym, I don't touch my phone.

I find buying a bicycle is a great way to stay in touch with people.

Sometimes animal exercises can help you get in touch with parts of yourself that you don't access day to day. In my day-to-day physicality, I'm a little bit like a terrier. I've always been described as a dog. I'm kind of goofy and a little dopey looking sometimes.

I've never been able to touch my toes. Seriously, never.

I think the two exercises that have helped me the most include using the bands with my ankles, and then another one of my favorites is where I lean on a balloon-shaped ball with my forehead touching it and rotate my head front, back and sideways to build up the muscles and ligaments in my neck.

People are tough. We're evolved for less food; more exercise; less sleep; less security; more paranoia. The irony is that we're so good at what we do. We strive for more food; less exercise; more sleep; more security; less paranoia - and we've succeeded.

Well you always have your favourites, and least favourites, I'm generally a cardio person, I love running that's what I enjoy the most from everything that I do, and swimming is the least favourite and the toughest for me because I'm not so good at it!

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.

I enjoy running, especially in a new city, so when I'm on tour that's always a good option.

During and after college, I did a lot of biking and bike touring.