Quotes About Fitness

I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

didn't have a gun myself. I never do. Guns are a crutch for those who aren't in good enough shape to run. I did have my Swiss Army knife, but that was just in case I needed a compact burglary tool.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

With the publication of Running & Being in 1978, George Sheehan's voice became the voice of a movement, sounding a clarion call to hundreds of thousands of people to abandon their sedentary ways, take to the streets, and run. Today, there are millions of us lacing up our running shoes, training for 5-Ks, 10-Ks, half-marathons, and marathons—each trudging the same path of fitness and self-discovery that he blazed decades before.

At 45, 2 years after the birth of his last child, he started running again.

Aging is a myth, he argued, and he showed it by posting his personal best at 3:01 in his 61st year.

One thing we runners know. There is no substitute for running. No matter what age we are. No matter what time we do it.

The runner who is in peak condition is only a razor's edge from catastrophe.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

We recommend 10 to 20 minutes, but even five minutes or just 50 to 100 jumps can be powerful.

A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.

Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.

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

It was the first day in the life of the new lean and mean Peabody. An hour later, she lay on the grubby floor wheezing like the dying. Her quads and hamstrings burned, her glutes wept, and her arms couldn't stop screaming for mama. Never doing this again, she announced. Yes, you are, she corrected. Can't. Dying. Can. Will. Help me, I think I broke my ass. Wimp, pussy. Shut up.

it made her look younger, more fit. It increased her energy and her sexual drive.

His abdomen was ribbed as if he were smuggling paint rollers under his skin.

The result is that you get about 3 minutes at O2max in runs one and two, but you get no time at max in runs three, four, and five. What was the purpose of the workout? If it was to hurt, you accomplished the purpose, but if you had planned to spend 15 minutes or so stressing your aerobic maximum, you missed that completely.

Don't compare yourself to other runners; focus on your own fitness and performance.

is easier to maintain a level of fitness than it was to achieve that fitness.

When I first moved to L.A., I didn't have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all.

I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.