Quotes About Fitness

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather should be little regarded.

Body exercise is incomplete if it focuses exclusively on muscle and is motivated by the ideal of a physique unspoiled by fat.

One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms.

We can all put weight on or lose weight.

Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I'm even starting to get muscles on my tummy - it's incredible.

Dr. Henry Lodge, coauthor of Younger Next Year, makes the point sharply. "It turns out," he says, "that 70% of American aging is not real aging. It's just decay. It's rot from the stuff that we do.

Una forma de mejorar nuestra verdadera edad es cuidarnos físicamente mediante el ejercicio y la alimentación.

We do not stop exercising because we grow old – we grow old because we stop exercising.

Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement.

So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.

Remember: If you run more than 3 miles five times per week (or a combination totaling 15 miles per week), you are running for something other than fitness, such as competition or ego-building.

But even as I talk about working out for 20 minutes in these most effective aerobic activities, I should mention that that's only a minimum. The optimum workout would be more like 30 minutes, three to four times a week.

Never buy anything from someone who is out of breath.

I like starting off the new year fresh. I'm excited to see how 2013 turns out. Maybe because I'm an actress and I am always on a diet and fitness program, but my New Year's resolution is to let myself be nice to myself about my body.

Based on the newly discovered function of leptin in muscle, the necessity of consistent exercise to maintain health has never been more important.139 People who have been in a consistent exercise program and have slipped out of the pattern will notice that this was an adverse turning point in their health. Conversely, people who get into a good exercise pattern notice an improvement in health. Individuals

running is cheaper than therapy.

In the US, there's one CrossFit box for every two Starbucks—an incredible reach for a fitness brand.

When the technology executive Daniel Clough decided to dumb down his phone experience, he didn't trash his iPhone but instead put it in the kitchen cupboard. He likes to use it when exercising so that he can listen to music and run his Nike+ fitness tracking app.

This is the way in which we transact the public business of the Nation," a New York newspaper had recently complained. "No man has the slightest chance of securing the smallest place because of his fitness for it.… If your streets are so unclean to-day as to threaten a pestilence, it is because those in charge were appointed through political influence, with no regard to their capacity to work.

Garfield, the New York Herald argued, "has recognized Republicans as members of a great party and not of mean factions. He has chosen men for office because of their fitness and ability, and not because they have stuck to the political fortunes of loved leaders.

I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!