Quotes About Fitness

You should train more for speed. You have the reflexes of an old lady.

When you understand that the body needs to be maintained in an alkaline state at a delicate pH of 7.365 in order to have sustainable energy, health, fitness and vitality, then everything you drink, everything you eat, every activity you engage in, even your thoughts, all produce acidic waste products that affect the health, fitness and vitality of the blood, tissues, organs and glands.

Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.

Loic Le Meur, producer of LeWeb, Europe's largest tech conference, is an ardent fitness enthusiast and Quantified Self proponent. In August 2010, he suggested in a blog post that as people and mobile devices work together to provide highly personalized data, the human body itself becomes an Application Programming Interface (API), meaning that developers can now offer personalized mobile apps for each individual by letting their computer codes talk with each other.

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive;That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.Dissolute, damned and despairful, crippled and palsied and slain,This is the Will of the Yukon—Lo, how she makes it plain!

Men seem loath to concede the superiority of another human being, even in such trivial realms as municipal geography. The reason, perhaps, is that during human evolution males who too readily sought reconciliation after a fight, or otherwise needlessly submitted to others, saw their status drop, and with it their inclusive fitness.

Natural selection cannot directly 'see' an individual organism in a specific situation and cause behavior to be adaptively tailored.

natural selection doesn't even care about our short-term happiness.

Darwin once summed up natural selection in ten words: "[M]ultiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

The relationship of gratitude and reciprocity thus developed can increase the evolutionary fitness of both plant and animal. A species and a culture that treat the natural world with respect and reciprocity will surely pass on genes to ensuing generations with a higher frequency than the people who destroy it. The stories we choose to shape our behaviors have adaptive consequences.

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Ah, gym class. Remember it? Institutionally sanctioned torture for society's misfits.

A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.

He was always proud of the fact that he had an abnormally low pulse of fifty-two.

he is coming into the office to see if he is fit to go into the firm later on, which I hope and trust he will be.

Rockefeller's passion for golf was linked to his medical problems of the 1890s, which turned him into a fitness buff.

that he had hardly been ill in his life.

Your good health is the thing you have until the day your doctor tells you you don't have it any more.

The burn of lifting weights, for instance, would be excruciating if it were a symptom of terminal illness. But because it is associated with health and fitness, most people find it enjoyable.

The burn of lifting weights, for instance, would be excruciating if it were a symptom of terminal illness. But because it is associated with health and fitness, most people find it enjoyable. Here we see that cognition and emotion are not separate. The way we think about experience can completely determine how we feel about it.

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, camping.

Whether your sport of choice is running, cycling, kite surfing, etc. start moving and stay moving! It will give you energy and help you stay young.