Quotes About Fitness

You Can't Hire Someone Else to Do Your Push-ups for You

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

I bet you look good naturally." "Not true," she said, shaking her head. "I spend plenty of time at the gym doing all the things that keep me looking good. I practice yoga and Pilâtes, and sometimes I starve myself to squeeze into something stunning." "That's 'cause you're a movie star. You have to.

Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.

But at least I have my health," he said. It was a joke.

there are natural consequences for not taking care of our bodies.

Before this insight, one might have been tempted to think of evolution as a completely random walk across a fitness landscape, in other words a series of steps in multidimensional sequence space where no region is more likely to be explored than any other region. But it turns out that, due to the power of selection and quasispecies, there are biases in evolution's walk through the genetic possibilities of life.

Sam, darling, when you suddenly look around you and see that—life itself is the basic magic, the real miracle, then we might have a chance. You are trying to impose your sense of order and fitness on the randomness of people and the illogic of fate. You want to refute the basic textures, the crazy mixture of life, and neaten it all up.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.

inquiry of Jack Cardigan: 'What's the use of keepin' fit?' or, more simply, to the fact that he was a foreigner, or alien as it was now called.

Note that training your body to use fat more efficiently and spare glycogen happens only when exercising at moderate intensity, not when riding harder.

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.

Natural selection is intolerant of idle verbosity.

When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.

In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.

The more years I go, the more experience I have, the more that nutrition and eating the right foods is important for recovery and things like that.

Dear gym teacher, how the hell are you fat? Sincerely, you teach exercise for a living!