Quotes About Fitness

I can always use a good chest fly in my life

The primary markers of physical capacity are strength, endurance, flexibility and resilience.

The benefits of a sustained fitness program decrease significantly after just one week of inactivity—and disappear altogether in as few as four weeks.

Drinking water, we have found, is perhaps the most undervalued source of physical energy renewal.

Chronological age is fixed. Biological age can be modified with training.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.

Whenever I have to pick something off the floor I bend down, keeping my legs straight. Dutifully touching your toes fifty times every day is a crashing bore. But there are almost as many times when something has to be picked up anyhow — or a lower drawer has to be opened — so I automatically do it in a manner that keeps me fit. I try to make a graceful gesture out of reaching for things on high shelves, too. I don't make it easier by dragging out a little step stool.

You're on your feet. Maybe you're phoning, or combing your hair, or taking off your makeup. Plant your bare feet about twelve inches apart and grip the floor with them, keeping your knees rigid. Then try to push your feet together - but without letting them budge. Try as hard as you can. This is a wonderful example of getting muscles to work against each other and it's a tremendous thing for the inner thighs - they are another terribly flab-prone area.

I've described one of my favorites for keeping the ankles slim – rolling a Pepsi bottle under the arch of the foot. Another simple exercise is to stick your leg out straight and, not moving it, rotate your foot in wide circles in both directions for a minute or two. Then push your foot up and down for a couple of minutes.

I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America ' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.

I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I've never thought before.

Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account."-Anne Wilson Schaef

Achieving transient hypofrontality generally requires exercising at one's "ventilatory threshold"—the point at which breathing becomes labored, corresponding to about 80 percent of the exerciser's maximum heart rate—for forty minutes or more.

I would encourage people to participate in sports. You don't have to dream of being an Olympic or a professional athlete.

I train my entire body to be strong. To be a professional athlete, we need every part to be strong - the core, the legs, arms.

The reason why I'm so shredded at 135 is because I'm a professional athlete. I do everything the correct way.

Personally, having an eight-pack is a high, but professionally, I cannot be obsessed with it. I'm an actor, not a body builder.

On a personal level, I probably wouldn't want my boys to box professionally. But I do encourage them to get into boxing training - they both go along. It keeps them fit.

You see guys in amateur contest who are much better conditioned than the professionals. To me the professionals should be better. Just because they are bigger, it doesn't mean they are better.