Quotes About Exercise

This understanding [of the image of God] turns our supremacism upsidedown, for if we resemble God in that we have dominion, we must be called to be "imitators of God" (Eph. 5:1) in the way we exercise it. Indeed, far from giving us a free hand on the earth, the imago Dei constrains us. We must be kings, not tyrants – if we become the latter we deny, and even destroy, the image in us. Huw Spanner

Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.

Running should be free, man.

For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated soley by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your headphones on, and get it over with. But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

RUNNERS wearing top-of-the-line shoes are 123 percent more likely to get injured than runners in cheap shoes, according to a study led by Bernard Marti, M.D., a preventative-medicine specialist at Switzerland's University of Bern.

I knew aerobic exercise was a powerful antidepressant, but I hadn't realized it could be so profoundly mood stabilizing and--I hate to use the word--meditative. If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

Running seemed to be the fitness version of drunk driving: you could get away with it for a while, you might even have some fun, but catastrophe was waiting right around the corner.

Runners in shoes that cost more than $95 were more than twice as likely to get hurt as runners in shoes that cost less than $40.

Exercise only with the intention to carry out a physical gain or to triumph over competitors," Hébert believed, "is brutally egoistic.

The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold—your hard-breathing point—during your endurance runs.

As much for his mind as for his body, Erwan likes to run it barefoot.

A team of Harvard scientists had once verified exactly that point by sticking a rectal thermometer in a cheetah and getting it to run on a treadmill. Once its temperature hit 105 degrees, the cheetah shut down and refused to run.

Skillful marketing has made carbohydrate consumption a religion among athletes," he'd fume. "They believe that you cannot get energy from anywhere but carbs." The same foods Noakes had assured people would make them stronger and faster were a slow-acting poison making them fatter, weaker, and more prone to heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and dementia.

Running isn't about making people buy stuff. Running should be free, man.

Nem?žeš b?hat do kopce a mít špatnou biomechaniku," vysv?tlil mi. "Prost? to nefunguje. Když se pokusíš s nap?ímenou nohou p?istát na patu, p?epadneš dozadu.

Máte-li nohu v sád?e, b?hem šesti týdn? svaly atrofují o ?ty?icet až šedesát procent. Cosi podobného se stane s vaším chodidlem, je-li uv?zn?no v bot?.

Nep?estáváš b?hat proto, že zestárneš. Zestárneš, protože p?estaneš b?hat. (Dipsea Demon)

Hoy en día, el doctor Hartmann cree que el mejor consejo para la prevención de lesiones es el que escuchó de boca de un entrenador que recomendaba «correr descalzo sobre césped húmedo tres veces a la semana». No

Sunny Blende, la experta nutricionista, evitó el desastre en el desierto cuando Jenn, Billy, Ted Descalzo y yo asistimos torpemente a Luis Escobar en la Badwater de 2006, y además me dio la mejor definición de este deporte que he oído: «Las ultramaratones son tan solo concursos de comer y beber, con un poco de ejercicio y paisajes de por medio».

I'm supposed to spread my fingers as wide as they were with the rubber band, mash my palms hard into the floor, and pull myself down. When I do, I surprise even myself when my elbows straighten with barely any effort.

If there's any magic bullet to make human beings healthy, it's to run.

Al basar su alimentación en frutas, vegetales y cereales integrales, Scott obtiene la máxima cantidad de nutrientes del menor número posible de calorías, así que su cuerpo no se ve forzado a cargar o procesar volumen innecesario. Y dado que los carbohidratos abandonan el estómago con mayor rapidez que las proteínas, le es posible meter más horas de ejercicio en el día, ya que no debe esperar sentado a digerir las albóndigas.

The real mutants are the runners who don't get injured. Up to eight out of every ten runners are hurt every year. It doesn't matter if you're heavy or thin, speedy or slow, a marathon champ or a weekend huffer, you're just as likely as the other guy to savage your knees, shins, hamstrings, hips, or heels.

We've become obsessed with things that affect the way we look, instead of the way we move.