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Quotes About Exercise

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
~ David Lee Roth
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
~ Steven Wright
I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
~ Erma Bombeck
Truth is emotional, it's fluid, and above all, it's human. No matter how quick we get with computers, no matter how much information we have, you'll never be able to remove the human from the truth-seeking exercise.
~ Unknown
I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.
~ Mark-Paul Gosselaar
I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.
~ Unknown
All that is needed to bring us to union with God is love. He had pondered this subject much, and concluded that the shortest way to God was to go straight to Him by a continual exercise of love and doing everything for His sake.
~ Unknown
I do twenty jumping jacks a day. Well, half of that. I just clap.
~ Martha Bolton
Life goes faster on protein.
~ Martin H. Fischer
Americans, I'd learned, walked less than any other industrialized nation on earth, with the average US native taking 5,117 steps daily compared to 9,695 in Australia, 7,168 in Japan and 9,650 in Switzerland.
~ Martin Lindstrom
Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.
~ Martin Luther
This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.
~ Martin Luther
The best things in life make you sweaty.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I can jog, but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, but to me there's a huge difference between jogging and running.
~ Mary Decker
A group's preference for specific activities is one important way values emerge in a culture. The leisure habits of the rich are framed as activities to see and to be seen at. They prove exercise, but no exertion; they are a courtly site of sociality and pleasure.
~ Unknown
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
~ Mary Kay Ash
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
~ Mason Cooley
I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.
~ Matt Cameron
Why, oh why had he taken up Debbie's offer of a free personal training session, and today of all days? There was no way he was going to get ripped abs by this evening, and the muscles he suspected he'd torn in his lower back were hardly the same thing.
~ Matt Dunn
There are two types of nutrition that have the potential to significantly enhance performance when consumed during running: water and carbohydrate. It is no accident that these are the two main ingredients in almost all sports drinks intended for use during exercise. Most
~ Matt Fitzgerald
Beet juice is rich in dietary nitrates, which are precursors for nitric oxide, a chemical that the body uses to cause blood vessels to dilate. Consuming beet juice before exercise increases vasodilatation and blood flow and reduces the oxygen cost of exercise. These
~ Matt Fitzgerald
Interestingly, slushie ingestion not only delayed the point at which the subjects reached a critically high core body temperature, but also allowed a higher tolerable core body temperature before exhaustion was reached. In other words, the slushie let them start colder and get hotter.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
mainly by increasing tolerance for perceived effort and by reducing the amount of effort that is perceived at any given intensity of exercise.
~ Matt Fitzgerald