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Quotes About Exercise

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
~ Hugo L. Black
one has control only until he's forced to exercise it.
~ Hugo Pratt
22 toe touches • 16 sit-ups • 23 leg lifts, lying on my front • 15 push-ups • 440 running-on-the-spot steps, each 4 inches high, with 10 stride jumps every 75 steps You do all this in 9.5 minutes.
~ Ian Brown
All in all, it does not appear that ejaculation, voluntary or involuntary, does much to enhance the pleasure of orgasm. To that end, a woman's time would be better spent on Kegel exercises and the strengthening of the pelvic floor muscles—an exercise known to increase the quality of orgasmic contractions.
~ Ian Kerner
Watching three tons of Love Police pantycar traveling at eighty meters per second aim itself at her heart, Courtney Hall, renegade cartoonist, satirist, overweight, overheight, decided it would be a good time to take some violent exercise. She ran.
~ Unknown
THE EXERCISES These are quite unlike conventional keep-fit exercises. They are habit breakers. They require mental rather than physical effort. They are designed to examine and remedy the tense and over-effortful way in which you have been making everyday actions, and to encourage your body to revert to its natural, tension-free state.
~ Unknown
if the nation were to be stable, individual rights had to be exercised according to rules that all people could understand and trust.
~ Condoleezza Rice
You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.
~ Courtney Thorne Smith
Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and going to church every week.
~ Craig Groeschel
I was exercising by doing twelve-ounce curls in an attempt to balance my electrolytes.
~ Craig Johnson
The avid walker Henry David Thoreau said in 1851, "The moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.
~ Unknown
These days I travel so much it's hard to get into a routine. When I'm on the road, I tend to use hotel gyms. When I'm home in L.A., I like to hike and hit the surf. All in all, I try to keep a balanced diet and exercise routine, which has stood me in good stead to date.
~ Curtis Stone
During your nonwork time, consider doing energetic-based exercises, such as qi gong, yoga, Pilates, tai chi, or karate. When performing these activities, focus on your intention. Running, walking, or biking before or after work or during lunch break are excellent ways to release others' energies and rev up your own.
~ Unknown
Michael Hopkins of the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Laboratory at Dartmouth reports,"It looks more and more like the positive stress of exercise prepares cells and structures and pathways within the brain so that they're more equipped to handle stress in other forms." This means the stress you get from pushing yourself to your physical limits can translate to improved resilience when facing psychological and emotional stressors in the rest of your life.
~ Unknown
The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
~ Cyril Falls
I had been watching the porters and it had looked easy; they swung the crates as if they were full of feathers, but I discovered that the crates were very heavy indeed, it took me all my time to lift them. I was soft, of course, for I had had very little exercise all the winter and I was unskilled into the bargain. The porters were amused at my attempts to help them but they were quite decent about it; probably they thought I was doing it for a joke.
~ D.E. Stevenson
Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our efforts to place an emphasis on prevention versus intervention.
~ Darell Hammond
I do close to 30 minutes in cardio at a very high rate. I raise the level of intensity. I do a level 18 on the elliptical at four miles an hour for 20 minutes. That's 360 calories. I want to see someone else try that. The resistance factor at 18 is brutal. No one goes to 20.
~ Ric Flair
We are vested with significant authorities, and it is our obligation as public servants to ensure that these authorities are exercised with objectivity and integrity. Anything less falls short of the FBI's duty to the American people.
~ Christopher A. Wray
Veteran' is an exercise in editing because there is a lot of moments I took out and some that almost didn't make it.
~ JPEGMAFIA
'Eastbound & Down' is giving you a rhythm. It's just a whole different vibe with improv. As an actor I just kind of exercise within my environment and adjust depending on where I'm at.
~ Katy Mixon
But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.
~ Charles Hodge
I train a lot of celebrities, including a lot of women who work for Victoria's Secret as Angels.
~ Mary Helen Bowers
The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.
~ Heidi Klum