1,154 Quotes About Exercise
- Author Lance Armstrong
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She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs...And she does it while smiling the whole time. It's kind of a joke, but then again it's not, especially if you're a male pro trailing in her wake. To have this woman in the middle of such a suffer fest out there crushing people and smiling all the way...
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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Fast is necessary when you wish to shed fat.
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- Author David Foster Wallace
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Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think. It means being conscious & aware enough to choose what you pay attention to & to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
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- Author Adrienne Posey
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Yoga is swimming in the air.
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- Author Gary Taubes
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But if sedentary behavior makes us fat and physical activity prevents it, shouldn't the "exercise explosion" and the "new fitness revolution" have launched and epidemic of leanness rather than coinciding with an epidemic of obesity?
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- Author Gary Taubes
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Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean.
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- Author A.J. Smith
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As he began to understand himself more and more (to the extent at least that any man truly understands himself), he recognized that his only moments of lasting (to extent that any moments can be lasting) satisfaction came by moving until movement was no longer possible. Satisfaction was pure, continuous, corporeal destruction and rebuilding through a prolonged rest, justified by the prerequisite damaging.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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Fitness has nothing to do with thinness. A chubby person who works out daily is fitter than a skinny person who has a sedentary lifestyle.
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- Author Shawn Wells
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All the activity and exercise you can muster may help in accelerating the adaptation period by depleting your carbohydrate stores and ramping up your body’s shift to burning fat.
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