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Fitness Quotes
The most loved quotes on fitness, gathered from writers, thinkers and leaders.
A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
What's important is to get into shape and then not to have to worry about it. I don't want to get on stage and not being able to do something. Not being physically fit doesn't work for me.
Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
I like exercise. I like a healthy body.
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
I'm not a waif-y girl and never will be. I think it's healthy when fitness experts encourage fitness rather than getting a certain body shape.
I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.
I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.
One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.
Exercise is labor without weariness.
Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.
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!
You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
You gotta have a body.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.
Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.
I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.
It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.
If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.
I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.
Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.
I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.
My wife and I work out together almost every day. It's just a great way to spend time together. We're going to run a marathon together later this year, and that's one more goal that we'll accomplish as husband and wife.
Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.
The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.
I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.
Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.
Practice puts brains in your muscles.
I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.
15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
There is a moment when you get older when your metabolism slows down and you don't feel like working out any more, so you don't want to keep yourself fit any more, but that's your decision. Why should you be judged for it?
In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.
A feeble body weakens the mind.
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
Cycling keeps me lean and I need to stay in shape, especially as I still like eating chocolate and ice-cream! I like to go mountain biking too. Running is also good; it's what we were designed to do as humans, so it comes naturally.
Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.
You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.
Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.
I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky.
We've got to get people out of their cars, out of those drive-thru windows, get them walking, get them in parks and get them more active.
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.
Yoga's an amazing release.
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
My job is to be fit and I'm really blessed that I get to go and work out and live a really healthy lifestyle.
My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.
A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.
Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.
I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.
Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.
It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.
I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.
The only weights I lift are my dogs.
The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
When I'm on the road, I'll break my exercise into a cardio session and a weights session.
Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
When I started out as a model, I took things for granted. Because I bagged work thanks to my looks, I didn't give my body any importance. I was a couch potato who'd eat anything. Then, in 2005, a tabloid ran a story calling me fat. I thought, 'I'm famous. How can I be fat?' It was a slap. I decided to get fit.
Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.
To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.
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.
I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.
I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
What you want is to rev up your metabolism so that you are burning fat and calories, not preserving fat and calories.