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Quotes About Exercise

A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement
~ Jess C. Scott
Skipping turns your legs into built-in pogo sticks.
~ Jessi Lane Adams
If I were a doctor, skipping would be my number one prescription.
~ Jessi Lane Adams
Skipping is nature's antidepressant.
~ Jessi Lane Adams
After all, a right that can't be exercised is not very useful to anyone.
~ Jessica Valenti
They jogged along for another half mile, their increasingly laboured breaths punctuated by Bernie's gasps of great and fantastic whenever Davey showed his style. Good workout, Bernie said when they reached the finish line and began to walk. You should run during the year too, Beckwith. I mean, how the hell do you stay so thin? You don't even play squash. I worry a lot, said Bob and kept walking.
~ Erich Segal
Corbin glanced around as his fellow classmates all crawled around the room, trying to get into the exercise, but all looking distinctly uncomfortable, except for Dave, whose enthusiasm had him zipping around the entire room. Travis had flopped onto his back. Is it time for my bottle and a bath yet? he asked Corbin, and they both started laughing. If this was Brittany's idea of normal, then Corbin was damn grateful they were probably never going to fit in. -Corbin at Baby Boot Camp
~ Erin McCarthy
I've exercised with women so thin, buzzards followed them to their cars.
~ Erma Bombeck
arms weren't flabby. He never used to yell at
~ Erma Bombeck
I ran into the driveway, my husband said, "I thought you were supposed to be walking." "I was," I panted, "until I ran out of Twinkies to hold off the dogs.
~ Erma Bombeck
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.
~ Ernest Hemingway
our capital authorization process itself is important, not the authorization itself. To prepare and justify a capital spending request, people go through a lot of soul-searching analysis and juggling, and it is this mental exercise that is valuable. The formal authorization is useful only because it enforces the discipline of the process.
~ Andrew S. Grove
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.
~ Andrew Solomon
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.
~ Andrew Solomon
I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.
~ Andrew Weil
The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But there is abundant evidence that regular, brisk walking is associated with better health, including lower blood pressure, better moods and improved cholesterol ratios.
~ Andrew Weil
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
~ Andrew Weil
One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.
~ Andrew Weil
Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.
~ Andrew Weil
My fitness is good. I hope to improve it even further during training.
~ Andriy Shevchenko
Didn't you know? Even when something bad happens to you, you have to go straight back to that piece of equipment or you get frightened. And if you're frightened you'll be hopeless at the exercise. You mustn't give up.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
You have to, you know? Otherwise you catch fear." "What?" "You catch fear," Ciri repeated proudly, brushing her ashen fringe from her forehead. "Didn't you know? Even when something bad happens to you, you have to go straight back to that piece of equipment or you get frightened. And if you're frightened you'll be hopeless at the exercise. You mustn't give up. Geralt said so.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.
~ Andy Cohen
Mr Grant, who did not understand his cousin's peculiar devotion to this form of mental stimulus, was ready enough to ride on a cock two or three times, but felt a distinct uneasiness at the form of half a crown's worth of this exercise. However Delia looked so happy and so pretty, with the flush of excitement on her face, that he determined to endure as long as possible.
~ Angela Thirkell