Quotes About Fitness

The best, however, based on everything I've read and seen, would be to do some form of aerobic activity six days a week, for forty-five minutes to an hour. Four of those days should be on the longer side, at moderate intensity, and two on the shorter side, at high

The mental and physical diseases we face in old age are tied together through the cardiovascular system and metabolic system. A

People think of exercise in terms of physical health, but not mental health," says Jennifer Shaw, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Brookline, Massachusetts, who is a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School.

exercise provides an unparalleled stimulus, creating an environment in which the brain is ready, willing, and able to learn.

Students would be assessed on effort rather than skill. You didn't have to be a natural athlete to do well in gym.

Exercise is not an instant cure, but you need to get your brain working again, and if you move your body your brain won't have any choice.

study shows that exercise—or at least the resulting fitness levels—can have a powerful impact on that fundamental skill.

Frank Forencich, who lives in Portland, Oregon, and writes and thinks about the role of movement and play in people's lives;

Evolution has hard-wired health to happiness

The evolution of our unique brains was locked into the evolution of our wide range of movement. Mental and physical agility run on the same track.

Public health recommendations, from the Centers for Disease Control to the American College of Sports Medicine, suggest doing some form of moderate aerobic exercise for thirty minutes at least five days a week.

perhaps because of the way he dressed, I thought of a goth girl named Rachel who had really transformed herself by playing Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)

One of the prominent features of exercise, which is sometimes not appreciated in studies, is an improvement in the rate of learning, and I think that's a really cool take-home message," Cotman says. "Because it suggests that if you're in good shape, you may be able to learn and function more efficiently.

What makes aerobic exercise so powerful is that it's our evolutionary method of generating that spark. It lights a fire on every level of your brain, from stoking up the neurons' metabolic furnaces to forging the very structures that transmit information from one synapse to the next.

Getting older is unavoidable, but falling apart is not.

Exercise Is Medicine," so

A little is good, and more is better." The best, however, based on everything I've read and seen, would be to do some form of aerobic activity six days a week, for forty-five minutes to an hour. Four of those days should be on the longer side, at moderate intensity, and two on the shorter side, at high intensity.

From an evolutionary perspective, exercise tricks the brain into trying to maintain itself for survival despite the hormonal cues that it is aging.

physical activity counts as novel experience, at least as far as the brain is concerned.

Exercise is another tool at your disposal, and it's handy because it's something you can prescribe for yourself

the message I want to leave you with is that even as your body changes, exercise will keep your mind firm and taught.

Running is the most elemental sport there is. We are genetically programmed to do it.

One of the greatest predictors of successful aging, they found, is the presence or absence of a sedentary lifestyle. Put

The more you exercise, the more tissues you can feed and the more toxic waste you can remove.