quotations about exercise
Exercise raises body temperature and generates other forms of stress on cells throughout the body, causing them to increase their manufacture of certain heat shock proteins. Preliminary research suggests that these HSPs might contribute to the health benefits of exercise by mitigating damage inside cells and by alerting the immune system to boost overall immune responses.
PRAMOD K. SRIVASTAVA
Scientific American, Jul. 2008
The benefits of exercise, to those whose occupation does not lead them to make any physical exertion, cannot be too highly estimated; the body must undergo a certain amount of fatigue to preserve its natural strength and maintain all the muscles and organs in proper vigor.
J. W. MAILLER
"The Laws of Health"
The body when over-labored becomes heavy and jaded; but it is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.
CICERO
attributed, Day's Collacon
I go to the gym because I think my great personality could use a banging body.
ANONYMOUS
Exercise? I thought you said extra fries!
ANONYMOUS
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
A. A. MILNE
Winnie-the-Pooh
If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
"Walking"
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, The Spectator, Jul. 12, 1711
I get my exercise running to the funerals of my friends who exercise.
BARRY GRAY
New York Magazine, May 19, 1980