quotations about exercise
The best exercise is the one you enjoy most.
SALLY LYOBEBE
Health and Exercise is Wealth with Recipes
I don't even know how this word came into being: "aerobics". I guess gym instructors got together and said, "If we're going to charge ten dollars an hour, we can't call it 'jumping up and down'."
RITA RUDNER
Naked Beneath My Clothes
I always like to tell people having about 12 minutes of exercise is like taking a little bit of Ritalin and a little bit of Prozac just in the right place in a very holistic kind of way, because that's what Ritalin and Prozac do. They increase the levels, at least initially, of serotonin on the one hand and dopamine on the other. And it seems to help many people feel more focused, feel calmer, feel less stressed.
PETER GOODWIN
Exercise and the Mind
My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
PHYLLIS DILLER
attributed, Quote Unquote
Labor or exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, Jul. 12, 1711
Let exercise alternate with rest.
PYTHAGORAS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Getting fit is all about mind over matter. I don't mind, so it doesn't matter.
ADAM HARGREAVES
Mr. Lazy's Guide to Fitness
We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.
PLATO
attributed, Day's Collacon
You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.
JUSTINA CHEN
North of Beautiful
The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise. If I have something that's really bothering me, so much that it almost hurts my head to try to sort it out, I always find the solution in a puddle of sweat! Intense exercise is like taking a magic pill that gives you the ability to solve problems like a superhero.
CHALENE JOHNSON
Push
Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation.
JACK LALANNE
attributed, Quotes
Walking is the very best exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785
Exercise is wonderful ... I could sit and watch it all day.
LARRY NIVEN
Ringworld
Exercise is quite majestic when seen from a distance.
BAUVARD
The Prince of Plungers
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.
JOHN DRYDEN
Epistle to John Driden of Chesterton
I get most of my exercise these days from shaking my head in disbelief.
ANONYMOUS
I did a push-up today. Well, actually I fell down, but I had to use my arms to get back up so, you know, close enough.
ANONYMOUS
If you have time for Facebook, you have time to exercise.
ANONYMOUS
For, in the course of common life, a man must either often exercise, or fast, or take physic, or be sick; and the choice seems left to every one as he likes.
WILLIAM TEMPLE
"Of Health and Long Life"
Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.
CHARLES DUHIGG
The Power of Habit