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Quotes About Training

I've done sport for a long time.
~ Heather Mills
I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.
~ Hermann Maier
In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.
~ Ilana Mercer
Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time.
~ John Kessel
He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.
~ Jennifer Lane, Streamline
We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN.
~ Sellapan Ramanathan
I spend a little time every day to play sports.
~ Vladimir Putin
The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.
~ Chad le Clos
Push-ups are seriously the best way to tone your arms - and they tone your abs at the same time! I like to do them when I'm home watching TV or listening to music.
~ Cassie Scerbo
He's (Feijao is) a different fighter than Anderson Silva so it doesn't matter that they train together. And I think I've improved a lot since I fought Anderson.
~ Dan Henderson
Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.
~ Keanu Reeves
At the age of fifteen she had begun to train herself to cultivate a friendship where she had longed to entice love. For fourteen years she had held that love only in the deepest, most secret recesses of her being and been his friend with the rest of herself. He had never known.
~ Mary Balogh
Abandon a dachshund and upon your return, you may well be confronted with a small token of her displeasure. This, for the dachshund, is an undignified but necessary form of training. Eventually, you will learn your lesson, which is to take you with her everywhere. When you have finally accepted this, you will be generously rewarded for your good behavior by a jaunty, joyful companion.
~ Mary Doria Russell
You are simple, brave, and honest. With training, you could be excellent warriors. Not me, said Annie. I don't like to fight. Sometimes one must fight for the right things, said the emperor. Like what? said Jack. Freedom and justice, and the emperor. Truth.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
The ninja master.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
The other way to train medics is to have them practice a skill so many times that it becomes automatic. So when the prefrontal cortex goes AWOL, when reasoning drops away, muscle memory, one hopes, will persist.
~ Mary Roach
The Johnson Space Center "potty cam," as it is more casually known, is an astronaut training aid. It provides a vivid, arresting perspective on something you've had intimate contact with all your life but never really seen. Perhaps not unlike viewing one's home planet from space for the first time. Positioning is critical because the opening to a Space Shuttle toilet is 4 inches across, as opposed to the 18-inch maw we are accustomed to on Earth.
~ Mary Roach
Avec de l'entrainement même un raté peut devenir un génie
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Se fixer des règles, c'est un moyen comme un autre de s'entrainer
~ Masashi Kishimoto
One cannot improve as an endurance athlete except by changing one's relationship with perception of effort.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
Low-intensity, high-volume training develops the sort of suffering tolerance that enhances fatigue resistance more effectively than does speed-based training. Fast runs may hurt more, but long runs hurt longer. The slow-burn type of suffering that runners experience in longer, less intense workouts is more specific to racing.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
The vast majority of runners, however, seldom train at a truly comfortable intensity. Instead, they push themselves a little day after day, often without realizing it. If the typical elite runner does four easy runs for every hard run, the average recreationally competitive runner—and odds are, you're one of them—does just one easy run for every hard run. Simply put: Running too hard too often is the single most common and detrimental mistake in the sport.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
Trent Stellingwerff, a Canadian exercise physiologist and coach, who administers carb-fasted training with elite runners, including 2:10 marathoner Reed Coolsaet.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
Tolerance for suffering is also trainable. Once a runner has discovered that she can suffer more than she thought she could, her perception of effort changes in a lasting way.
~ Matt Fitzgerald