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Quotes About Training

The GA's new recruits have to be the slowest learners since the eradication of Down's syndrome.
~ Peter Watts
I hear you guys all the time talking about Daniel Bryan, trained by Shawn Michaels. One curious thing to me is, how come you guys never mention William Regal? William Regal did the real work with this young man. Shawn Michaels took $3,000 from him, that's all he ever did.
~ Phil Brooks
derives from the 14th-century word Old French aleurer, to attract, captivate, and more exotically, to train a falcon to hunt. The roots are à, to, and loirre, falconer's lure.
~ Phil Cousineau
If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.
~ Phil Pastoret
It's an easy thing to steal, any jerk could do it, but to steal and not get caught, ever, that's something else. That's something you have to train for. And to learn it properly takes years," Richard later said.
~ Philip Carlo
the CIA was training Cuban exiles to land in Cuba and launch a guerrilla war against the new government of Fidel Castro.
~ Philip E. Tetlock
Initially, exercising at this relatively low heart rate may be difficult for some people. But after a short time, you will feel better and your pace will quicken at that same heart rate, so you will not be exercising at that relatively slow pace for too long. In other words, you will walk, run, bike and perform all activities at faster paces. This increase in pace (or power) at the same MAF HR is also an important evaluation, called the MAF Test, that measures this progress.
~ Philip Maffetone
You can build your aerobic system with easy exercise, and if you never work out hard, you'll still reap great benefits.
~ Philip Maffetone
All anaerobic training should be preceded by an easy aerobic warm-up and followed by an easy aerobic cooldown. • On the days between anaerobic exercise, perform an easy aerobic workout.
~ Philip Maffetone
For example, if you're presently jogging a mile in 12 minutes at a rate of 140 bpm, after three months of training at this heart rate your pace may quicken to 10 minutes per mile. Even though you'll be jogging, or running, faster, you'll be exercising at the same heart rate and feel almost the same as when you were jogging at the slower pace of 12 minutes per mile.
~ Philip Maffetone
An unfortunate but common problem in sports is that athletes are too often fit but unhealthy. The indications include the common incidence of physical, biochemical and mental-emotional injuries. Athletes are often forced out of training and competition due to these conditions, and, sadly, some die at early ages during competition due to health problems.
~ Philip Maffetone
MAF emphasizes the balance of all components of both health and fitness. This begins with the need to improve the aerobic system because it supplies the energy that's essential for all physical, biochemical and mental-emotional health and fitness.
~ Philip Maffetone
Rather than increase your pace, gradually increase your total workout time.
~ Philip Maffetone
Talented people succeed largely because they devote considerable time, attention, and effort to their topic of predilection. Through training, they develop well-tuned algorithms and clever shortcuts that any of us could learn if we tried, and that are carefully devised to take advantage of our brain's assets and get around its limits." —Psychologist and neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene
~ Philip Reed
I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.
~ Philippe Perrin
Remember, we do not rise to the level of our expectations, but we do fall to the level of our training.
~ Phong Thong Dang
Most women are trained to put their own needs second, the needs of any man—including a violent man—first.
~ Phyllis Chesler
In sumi-e, he said, as in haiku aur in any Zen training, the aim was to develop a discipline so sure and a spirit so true that one could afford to be atleast spontaneous; to get into such a state of deliberateness that as soon as one put pen to paper, one would produce something powerful and true.
~ Pico Iyer
In sumi-e, he said, as in haiku or in any Zen training, the aim was to develop a discipline so sure and a spirit so true that one could afford to be atleast spontaneous; to get into such a state of deliberateness that as soon as one put pen to paper, one would produce something powerful and true.
~ Pico Iyer
In sumi-e, he said, as in haiku or in any Zen training, the aim was to develop a discipline so sure and a spirit so true that one could afford to be utterly spontaneous; to get into such a state of deliberateness that as soon as one put pen to paper, one would produce something powerful and true.
~ Pico Iyer
I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!
~ Brian Blessed
It was an honor to be invited to visit Real Madrid's training ground and meet Raul, Ronaldo, Kaka, and all the other footballers that play for such a successful team.
~ Rey Mysterio
I exercise each day for three hours. I don't get to visit the akhada every day, since I keep travelling, but my training schedule incorporates the exercises that I used to do in the akhada.
~ Sangram Singh
I'm not going back to Amsterdam, though it would be very comfortable there with Frank de Boer, Danny Blind, and Dennis Bergkamp. When I left 12 years ago, I said I would return, but I did not know then what great years I would have with Manchester United. I might occasionally visit training with them, but I will not be going regularly.
~ Edwin van der Sar