Quotes About Fitness

Although the hotel in the book is a creation of my imagination, the Nantucket Hotel does have certain similarities: It has both rooms and suites, a family pool and an adult pool, a fabulous fitness center, a yoga

Fortunately, in partial gravity, one-handed push-ups aren't as hard as they are planet-side.

I dislike people who are forever getting into shape. I am in terrible shape and haven't exercised since the Truman administration.

Everything (and everyone) alive today is descended from an organism that somehow survived the impact. But it does not follow from this that they (or we) are any better adapted. In times of extreme stress, the whole concept of fitness, at least in a Darwinian sense, loses its meaning: how could a creature be adapted, either well or ill, for conditions it has never before encountered in its entire evolutionary history?

In one of the most often-quoted passages of On the Origin of Species, Darwin wrote: It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers. Natural

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.

Dieting is not a piece of cake.

To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

Identity shifts are change boosters because they help us cultivate constellations of behavior—not just one or two habits here and there. This is important because most aspirations require more than one type of habit change. It's a set of new habits that will get you where you want to be—especially in the areas of fitness, sleep, and stress.

So in most things men are ready to abuse themselves in thinking the greatest means to be best, when it should be the fittest.

Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.

It's rare enough as an older generation player that you're 100% fit - there's always something niggling.

I am rarely injured.

I break out in a rash if I go to the gym; all I did was shave my chest.

I'm not much of a gym rat; I'd rather be running, but if it enables me to run faster, then I guess I can tough it out.

I was always a gym rat.

Exercise is the best way to keep you looking young and fresh. It raises your heart rate and boosts your blood circulation.

I teach people how to breathe; I teach them how to use dynamic resistance, which is what gets your heart rate jacked up.

I have a pretty high metabolism rate. So I tend to lose muscle mass if I am not working out.

I make sure I eat something healthy every two hours. It keeps my metabolic rate high.

I ate everything and I never exercised or even went for a walk. I guess I had a great metabolic rate.

When I was running as an athlete, I'd be looking at my heart rate, monitoring when it started to peak, when it plateaued. I'd make a note of the oxygen debt in my body and would always be working to a specific time.

Climbing is definitely very much strength-to-weight ratio. At the same time, I've never dieted or restricted calories. You're just sort of mindful about not getting plump.