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Quotes About Exercise

Train the press in a similar fashion. First, give an adequate load to the weaker arm (3-5 sets till substantial fatigue), then to the strong one. Once a week, perform a full cycle of the exercises (in 2-3 sets—as in a competition): press the kettlebell out with one arm until total exhaustion, and then repeat the drill with the other arm, without setting the kettlebell down on the platform.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
Every two weeks take a kettlebell one or more sizes lighter than the one you are currently swinging. Pick a swing variation—two-arm, one-arm, hand-to-hand, mixed—and enjoy the pain.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.
~ Terence Stamp
The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.
~ Bruce Lee
I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.
~ Kathryn Bigelow
Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.
~ Pietro Aretino
Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.
~ Pietro Aretino
My worst day in the gym is still more fun than my best day in the office!
~ Unknown
As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold, so the intellect degenerates without exercise.-Leonard Da Vinci
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Above all, train hard, eat light, and avoid TV and people with negative attitudes.
~ Unknown
gym in the basement yet. She wanted to do curtains and furniture
~ Danielle Steel
The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom
~ Dave Barry
Alan was feeling strong. He did two push-ups and felt stronger still.
~ Dave Eggers
Our penises flop up and down, and then as we pick up speed, slap left to right, back and forth -- who would have thought left to right? The pain! People should not do this. Penises were not built for running.
~ Dave Eggers
should strive to have a mix of these four types of activities at some point during your daily and weekly routines: 1. Physical Activity 2. Mental Stimulation 3. Social Interaction 4. Fulfillment
~ Unknown
In the military, snipers were almost always deployed in two-person teams. A spotter added security and firepower, set up and calculated shots, kept on top of elements like wind that could vary shots. When the shooter got tired, which often happened because waiting to kill was an exhausting exercise, the team would switch roles and spotter would become sniper.
~ David Baldacci
know, it's harder to get back in shape than it is to stay in shape.
~ David Baldacci
Afterwards they walked over to the gym. Mace got a ball and took Ty onto the court while Alisha watched. Mace bounced the ball between her legs, turned, and shot. The ball swished through the hoop, barely grazing the net
~ David Baldacci
On the other hand, there are those who feel that fiction can be challenging, generally and thematically, and even on a sentence-by-sentence basis—that it's okay if a person needs to work a bit while reading, for the rewards can be that much greater when one's mind has been exercised and thus (presumably) expanded.
~ David Foster Wallace
Here is how to avoid thinking about any of this by practicing and playing until everything runs on autopilot and talent's unconscious exercise becomes a way to escape yourself, a long waking dream of pure play. The irony is that this makes you very good, and you start to become regarded as having a prodigious talent to live up to.
~ David Foster Wallace
greater when one's mind has been exercised and thus
~ David Foster Wallace
I am saying in order to masturbate successfully, the scene required rational logic by which copulation with this exercising woman is plausible in the public of the State Exercise Facility. I was responsible to this logic.
~ David Foster Wallace
If it wasn't for his anxiety, he'd get no aerobics at all.
~ Woody Allen
He neglected not his own body, and praised not those that neglected theirs.  In like manner, he blamed the custom of some who eat too much, and afterwards use violent exercises; but he approved of eating till nature be satisfied, and of a moderate exercise after it, believing that method to be an advantage to health, and proper to unbend and divert the mind. 
~ Xenophon