Quotes About Fitness

Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.

If it wasn't for his anxiety, he'd get no aerobics at all.

Although Darwin's theory of evolution discusses how the fitter offspring tend to survive, the reality is that whether or not an offspring will survive is mostly a function of chance due to the many possible wrong choices that exist for each right choice. Higher complexity organisms have more behavioral options, which in turn enables them to make more right choices.

You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated solely by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your headphones on, and get it over with. But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

We were born to run; we were born because we run.

Running should be free, man.

If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

Everyone is built for running.

For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated soley by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your headphones on, and get it over with. But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

Distance running demands a brain-body connection that no other creature is capable of.

We do not stop running because we get old, we get old because we stop running

You don't stop running because you get old', said the Demon. 'You get old because you stop running.

Running seemed to be the fitness version of drunk driving: you could get away with it for a while, you might even have some fun, but catastrophe was waiting right around the corner.

Être fort pour être utile," Hébert declared. "Be fit to be useful.

Wilt Chamberlain, all seven feet one inch and 275 pounds of him, had no problem running a 50-mile ultra when he was sixty years old after his knees had survived a lifetime of basketball.

Exercise only with the intention to carry out a physical gain or to triumph over competitors," Hébert believed, "is brutally egoistic.

The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold—your hard-breathing point—during your endurance runs.

Competition perverts true fitness, Hébert believed. It tempts you to cheat; to overdevelop some talents while ignoring others;

as shoes wore down and their cushioning thinned, runners gained more foot control.

You get leafy greens in your body first thing in the morning and you'll lose a lot of weight.

You are fit if you can adapt to the demands of your environment with ease and imagination," Myers

if you can run six miles on a summer day then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom. We can dump heat on the run, but animals can't pant while they gallop.

Nem?žeš b?hat do kopce a mít špatnou biomechaniku," vysv?tlil mi. "Prost? to nefunguje. Když se pokusíš s nap?ímenou nohou p?istát na patu, p?epadneš dozadu.