quotations about exercise
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
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Naked Beneath My Clothes
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
speech, Apr. 10, 1899
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
Exercise is quite majestic when seen from a distance.
BAUVARD
The Prince of Plungers
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"
If you have time for Facebook, you have time to exercise.
ANONYMOUS
Statistics show what really happens if you exercise daily--you die healthier.
EVEN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Exercise? I thought you said extra fries!
ANONYMOUS
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
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
journal, Apr. 20, 1840
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
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
The best exercise is the one you enjoy most.
SALLY LYOBEBE
Health and Exercise is Wealth with Recipes
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
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
My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
PHYLLIS DILLER
attributed, Quote Unquote
I get most of my exercise these days from shaking my head in disbelief.
ANONYMOUS
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
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