quotations about exercise
Exercise? I thought you said extra fries!
ANONYMOUS
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
You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.
JUSTINA CHEN
North of Beautiful
Walking is the very best exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
A. A. MILNE
Winnie-the-Pooh
I get my exercise running to the funerals of my friends who exercise.
BARRY GRAY
New York Magazine, May 19, 1980
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
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"
If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
"Walking"