Quotes About Fitness

I'm reaching 87, trying to keep fit, presenting a vigorous figure, and it's an effort, and is it worth the effort? I laugh at myself trying to keep a bold front. It's become my habit. I just carry on.

One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.

One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.

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Emotionally damaged men all too often rip apart their own lives, and those of their partners and children. I see both physical fitness and emotional strength as virtues, but they are acquired by entirely different means.

But perhaps my blocked sinuses did have something to do with how bad I was at gym, perhaps after all I did lack balance?

I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of hard to keep up with on the road, but I stick to it as well as I can.

Your happiness does not depend so much on what kind of body you have, but on how well you take care of it.

If it's what your body was designed to do, it's probably not bad form. And if the exercise requires you to do something unnatural, you should think twice before doing it.

the goal is to get old without getting feeble.

Muscles grow for a variety of reasons, but the main one is strength. If you force them to get stronger, they will get bigger. If you start lifting 100 pounds five times, but train your body to lift 150 pounds five times, you're going to end up with bigger muscles. But if you start off lifting 50 pounds ten times, and progress to lifting the same 50 pounds fifteen times, all you've done is increase the endurance of the muscles, which by itself will not make them bigger.

The strongest women are healthier and live longer, with fewer disabilities.

8. Take care of your body.

Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.

I would come to learn that the alpha female can read every single bit of food you put into your body. Make a choice that'a going to keep you strong and fit for the pack and you will pass muster; make a choice that's the equivalent of chocolate cake in the human world and you'll wind up urinating in streams to disguise your scent, or else suffer the consequences.

Our body is like a machine. If we constantly run the machinery at high speed, it will wear out faster. Since animals with slower metabolic rates live longer, eating more calories, which drives up our metabolic rate, will cause us only to age faster. Contrary to what you may have heard and read in the past, our goal should be the opposite: to eat less, only as much as we need to maintain a slim and muscular weight, and no more, so as to keep our metabolic rate relatively slow.

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Being fit is not the same thing as being healthy.

An important take-home point is that exercise is almost worthless if you don't eat right.

Interval Training Is Beneficial Interval training means that you exercise in bursts of energy for short periods of time, such as one to three minutes, but you exercise at an increased intensity to elevate your heart rate more than you would be capable of doing if you had to sustain the effort much longer.

the more greens you eat, the more weight you will lose.

a 5'10 male should weigh approximately 155 pounds.

Fat deposits around your waist are a greater health risk than extra fat in other places, such as the hips and thighs.

our goal should be the opposite: to eat less, only as much as we need to maintain a slim and muscular weight, and no more, so as to keep our metabolic rate relatively slow.