Quotes About Fitness

If you want to "tone and build," it is time to pick up some iron - that's the way we can get a muscle to grow.

The last time I was in a gym, Dukakis was running for president.

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.

The more developed your abs, the less time you've spent reading.

I have had quite a few injuries during my time and if you are not injured in this sport [bodybuilding], you are not doing anything.

I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

I go out and put in a load during the offseason so I know what I'm going to be able to do, as long as I stay healthy, when it comes time for the season.

I'm not on a health kick. I know I should take vitamins, for example, but I forget half the time. I just can't be bothered carrying around a lot of little bottles.

I know forty-one is the new eighteen, but tell that to my metabolism.

Our health is our wealth.

If exercise could be put in a pill, it might be the most powerful health-promoting longevity strategy ever.

Take all your iridescent spandex and Lycra fitness accessories to the nearest landfill and let the extraterrestrials use them as goalpost pennants in their rollerball tournaments when they excavate the ruins of our civilization.

How did the age-old equation that poor equals thin and rich equals fat change so that now our working poor are huge and slow-moving and only the wealthy can afford the personal trainers, liposuction, and extended spa treatments required, it seems, to be thin?

And then there are our bodies. We live in a time where the majority of people in the Western world are massively overweight. In the United States, nearly seven in ten Americans are either overweight (defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as having a body mass index of 25.0 to 29.9) or obese (having a BMI of 30.0 or higher).

vale más tener fuerza física que no tenerla. Sin embargo, hoy

There is an aptness, a propriety, a fitness in these things which one can understand perhaps better than explain.

We smugly assume that we are the tallest humans to ever grace the earth. Quite the contrary. The Cro-Magnon people living thirty thousand years ago were about our size and 10 percent more muscular. Hunting, gathering, when food sources were abundant, was an exquisitely healthy lifestyle.

A substantial daily intake of alcohol was the perfect way to stay in shape.

Jeez Louise. I know why rich people are so thin: it's from trekking around their humongous houses the whole time.

The idea of Kai and Luke sitting at a table discussing his pecs nearly made me snort out my coconut water.

is tall and rangy, with muscled thighs that start three inches apart. She looks like she probably runs up a mountain every day and doesn't even know what a KitKat is.

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

With my busy schedule, it's impossible to have a set fitness routine. So instead I like to try and incorporate exercise into my daily life whenever I can - which requires some creativity.

When you have a better image of yourself physically, you have a tendency to live your life in a more positive way.