Quotes About Exercise

I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states.

While she admired those who excelled, she considered sports a torture to be avoided if at all possible.

good for my thighs; all this humping of books, good for my biceps.

We are built to walk. Not to SoulCycle and jog and hike. Walking is mental. You sharpen your thoughts and process your emotions.

it can keep you actively worried about specific things, about what you ate last night, and how your clothes are fitting, and whether or not you should go to the gym—it does a masterful job of keeping less tangible, more daunting matters at bay. The flood of options is reduced to a manageable trickle. Unnamed anxieties are replaced with tangible ones.

My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.

The downside is that walking isn't quite enough to bring on a high unless it leaves you seriously breathless. The feeling-great part only really kicks in after an intense run at a pace where it's difficult to hold a conversation.

Guys won't admit it, but we're all obsessed with our biceps. I did three sets of ten reps, thirty-five pounds on each side. I knew I was pushing it, especially since we have practice this afternoon, but what the fuck. That was going to be my motto today. What the fuck.

The only exercise guru then was Richard Simmons—a flamboyant fuzzy-haired creature who vaguely resembled a gay Bozo the Clown, unless that's redundant, which I, thank God, have no way of knowing, having no, thank God, direct

She liked going to the gym, or rather, she liked having been to the gym, and the only way to have been was to go.

I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?" "A long one?

As we read on a daily basis, growing in our skill in Bible reading, the rhythm of a life lived deeply in God's Word will become as nurturing as our daily meals, as spiritually strengthening as daily exercise, and as emotionally satisfying as a good-morning kiss from a spouse. It takes discipline, but Bible reading can come to be a discipline of delight if we open our hearts and lives to it.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics don't make anybody long-lived or useful.

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

One thing we runners know. There is no substitute for running. No matter what age we are. No matter what time we do it.

What the jogger's face shows is not boredom but contemplation, which Thomas Aquinas described as man's highest activity save one—contemplation plus putting the fruits of that contemplation into action.

Take flight each day! At least for a moment, however brief, as long as it is intense. Every day a "spiritual exercise,"…Leave ordinary time behind. Make an effort to rid yourself of your own passions… Become eternal by surpassing yourself. This inner effort is necessary, this ambition, just.

best approaches for helping your lymph help you: Exercise. The jumping action of a mini-trampoline is especially helpful because of the way lymph travels. Jumping allows you to push the fluid up—and the one-way valves stop it from immediately traveling back down via gravity. When you get moving up and down,