Remember ... If you fail to plan ... you plan to fail!
Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody want to lift those heavy-ass weights. ~ Ronnie Coleman
The hardest lift you will ever have to do ... is getting your ass of the couch, you fat-ass. ~ Zack Khan
The hardest step for a runner to take is the first one out the door.
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train you in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. ~ Mao Tse-Tung
A goal is a dream with a deadline. ~ Zig Ziglar
Failure is an event...not a person. ~ Zig Ziglar
When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt -- just absolute confidence. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
If you keep doing what you're doing, you'll keep getting what you're getting!
Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase. ~ Joseph Pilates
Procrastination is the gap between intention and action!
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
If you can conceive it and believe it, you can achieve it!
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. ~ Lance Armstrong
Stimulate don´t anniliate your muscles.
Do it now. ~ Napoleon Hill
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you're ready or not, put this plan into action. ~ Napoleon Hill
Commit to be fit.
Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.
My fat scares me - it's a ticking time bomb. ~ Carrie Latet
The greatest wealth is health. ~ Virgil
What are you waiting for?
Exercise - you don't have time not to.
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. ~ Josh Hinds
Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. ~ Astrid Alauda
What fits your busy schedule better: exercising 1 hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day?
I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline. ~ Jack LaLanne
I wake up every morning with an erection so hard a cat can’t scratch it. ~ Jack LaLanne, at age 85
I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing. ~ Marsha Doble
You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy. ~ Arthur Ashe
I attribute my success to this - that I never gave or took any excuse. ~ Florence Nightingale
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. ~ Wayne Gretzky
A person too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
If your dog is fat, you're not getting enough exercise.
Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body. ~ Cher
Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle. ~ Cher
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. ~ Oprah Winfrey
There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things. ~ Oprah Winfrey
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me. ~ Mark Twain
The secret to getting ahead is getting started. ~ Mark Twain
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~ John Wooden
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~ John Wooden
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. ~ Vince Lombardi
Fatigue makes cowards of us all. ~ Vince Lombardi
There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give it everything. ~ Vince Lombardi
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ~ Lou Holtz
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~ Jim Ryan
Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, "Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?" ~ Peter Maher
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. ~ Leo Tolstoy
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. ~ Charles Buxton
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Physical activity is an excellent stress-buster and provides other health benefits as well. It also can improve your mood and self image. ~ Jon Wickham
Strive for progress, not perfection.
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. ~ Plato
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse. ~ George Sheehan
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. ~ Joey Adams
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs. ~ Joan Welsh
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. ~ A.A. Milne
Aerobics: A series of strenuous exercises which help convert fats, sugars and starches into aches, pains and cramps.
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united. ~ Alexander von Humboldt
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.
Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it. ~ Alan Thicke
Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy and fat. ~ Jill Johnson
All parts of the body which have a function if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become there by healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly. ~ Hippocrates
Walking is not a lost art; one must, by some means, get to the garage.
Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change. ~ Bill Phillips
Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try.
The pride you gain is worth the pain. ~ Dennis Ogilvie
An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school. ~ David Walters
Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness, and these make us precious to our friends. ~ Thomas Jefferson
We never repent having eaten too little. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Act as though and it shall be. The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. Your current results are who you were. ~ James A. Ray
A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips.
It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old t-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout. ~ Cheryl Tiegs
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Whenever I feel like exercising, I lie down until the feeling passes.
We do not stop exercising because we grow old, we grow old because we stop exercising. ~ Dr Kenneth H. Cooper
The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy. ~ Dr Kenneth H. Cooper
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~ Winston Churchill
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult that all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~ Paul Dudley White
Even in a country like the USA where fitness has become an obsession, most people exercising do not seem to think it illogical to drive automobiles to gyms doing their best to avoid walking. ~ Dave Wilson
For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.
Another good reducing exercise consists of placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think "Yeah...that's the problem." ~ Chris Adams
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
Exercise is good for your mind, body and soul. ~ Susie Cortright
You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing, there will be no result. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise. ~ Gene Tunney
Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart. ~ Gene Tunney
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional and mental states. ~ Carol Welch
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. ~ Norman R. Augustine
The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
A lack of exercise robs the body of an essential ingredient. ~ Karen Sessions
All men are self made but only the successful will admit it.
He can who thinks he can. ~ Joe Girard
Take care of your body - it's the only place you have to live. ~ Jim Rohn
Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise. ~ Paula Abdul
If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution.
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. ~ Ellen DeGeneres
Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks.
Excuses don't burn calories!
To be fit as a fiddle, you must tone down your middle.
The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. ~ Porter Freeman
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
The word aerobics came about when the gym instructors got together and said "If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it jumping up and down." ~ Rita Rudner
Walking the walk doesn't begin with a step. It begins with a choice. You can turn fear into action and let doubt become confidence. Find your pride and let it fuel your courage. Turn tomorrow into today and turn today into RIGHT NOW! ~ Rich Gaspari
Your mind will quit 100 times before your body ever does. Feel the pain and do it anyway. ~ Larissa Reis
Winners do what they have to do, losers do what they want.
The pleasure of eating and drinking lasts a few moments, the pleasure of being at my proper weight, lasts a lifetime!
Depression is about the past, anxiety is about the future, stay in the present.
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