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
Naked Beneath My Clothes
My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
PHYLLIS DILLER
attributed, Quote Unquote
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
"The Soft America", Sport and Society: an Anthology
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
I get most of my exercise these days from shaking my head in disbelief.
ANONYMOUS
Let exercise alternate with rest.
PYTHAGORAS
attributed, Day's Collacon
If you have time for Facebook, you have time to exercise.
ANONYMOUS
Good things come to those who sweat.
ANONYMOUS
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
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
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
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"
I go to the gym because I think my great personality could use a banging body.
ANONYMOUS
The best exercise is the one you enjoy most.
SALLY LYOBEBE
Health and Exercise is Wealth with Recipes
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
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
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
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
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