Quotes About Fitness

She was deemed an unfit mother, in spite of the fact that she goes to the gym every day,' Hal once told me. . . .Beautiful people are often forgiven for many things--and maybe she's gotten through life that way, but I don't forgive her for anything--and I don't even know what awful things she's done other than showing a lack of parental fitness.

Sometimes a healthy diet and keeping yourself fit for parts donation comes in handy.

Exercise makes you look better naked. So does Tequila. Your choice.

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

Sexual selection acts in a less rigorous manner than natural selection. The latter produces its effects by the life or death at all ages of the more or less successful individuals.

I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not occurred to me till reading your letter. It is, however, a great objection to this term that it cannot be used as a substantive governing a verb; and that this is a real objection I infer from H. Spencer continually using the words, natural selection. (Letter to A. R. Wallace July 1866)

This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term natural selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection. But the expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the Survival of the Fittest, is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

las variaciones y diferencias individuales favorables, y la destrucción de aquellas que son nocivas, es lo que hemos llamado selección natural o supervivencia de los más aptos.

Puede decirse metafóricamente que la selección natural está haciendo diariamente, y hasta por horas, en todo el mundo, el escrutinio de las variaciones más pequeñas; desechando las que son malas, conservando y acumulando las que son buenas, trabajando insensible y silenciosamente donde y cuando se presenta una oportunidad, en el mejoramiento de todo ser orgánico en relación con sus condiciones orgánicas e inorgánicas de vida.

Comme il naît beaucoup plus d'individus de chaque espèce qu'il n'en peut survivre; comme, en conséquence, la lutte pour l'existence se renouvelle à chaque instant, il s'ensuit que tout être qui varie quelque peu que ce soit de façon qui lui est profitable a une plus grande chance de survivre; cet être est ainsi l'objet d'une sélection naturelle.

The planetary genome and proteome have been mapped so exhaustively that the biosciences are now focusing on the challenge of the phenome—plotting the phase-space defined by the intersection of genes and biochemical structures, understanding how extended phenotypic traits are generated and contribute to evolutionary fitness.

Remember, aerobic exercise saves your life; strength training makes it worth living.

optimism. Lean, fit, happy, optimistic, energetic, brimming with vim and vigor: these

Warm up, of course; that never changes. Then up to 60–65 percent of your max for five or ten minutes. Then crank it up to 70–75 percent and hold at that level for five or ten minutes. Feel your way. That's intense enough for your high-endurance work in the early stages and maybe forever. Then back down for recovery at 60–65 percent.

Your body reads idleness as a sign that you are starving to death as slowly as possible, no matter how much you eat. Exercise

Bill Fabrocini in The Younger Next Year Exercise Book or Thinner This Year.

The price of fitness is eternal vigilance, and the greatest spur to diligence is the daily log.

Biologically, there is no such thing as retirement, or even aging. There is only growth or decay. And your body looks to you to choose between them.

I like to do at least 15 minutes of cardio every day if I can fit it in.

It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

It's not weird to look at yourself in the mirror at the gym - that's why they're there! You have to make sure that you're doing things right.

If you look in the mirror and think, 'Boy, my body needs a good dose of middle management,' keep in mind that tummy fat could be the result of many things.