#fitness

Treat yourself like a fast person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck--you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one." --Push: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, p. 214 ↗

— Chalene Johnson

#career #diet #fitness #goals #health

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#joviality #men

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#always #better #calmness #challenges #ease

As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life. ↗

— Lee Haney

#active life #am #chairman #committed #council

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. ↗

— Hippocrates

#amount #could #every #exercise #found

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#activity #body #comes #enjoyment #ever

If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#action #being #being lazy #body #confident

Pursuit of optimal fitness is a journey, a constant struggle, a lifestyle; a process where intensity during each exercise session, what you eat every single day and patience over years is what's required... AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN OVERNIGHT! ↗

— The Fitness Doc

#lifestyle

At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts. ↗

— Heather O'Reilly

#blend #comes #distance #down #endurance

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#alternatives #career #clearly #expensive #insisting