Aerobics Quotes

• The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.

  Dave Barry

  Sarcastic, Fitness, Sarcasm

  Dave Barry (1985). “Dave Barry's Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead”, p.13, Rodale

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• When doing your aerobic exercise, go at a comfortable pace until you've developed more stamina.

  Lee Haney

  Exercise, Pace, Stamina

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• Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.

  Andrew Weil

  Exercise, Epidemics, Play

  "10 Ways to Have a Happier Life" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.

  Samantha Stosur

  Workout, Exercise, Healthy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"

  Michael Richards

  Teacher, Exercise, Rocks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you want a dancer's body, dance. Dance aerobics is my favourite cardio. It's very frustrating if people think you have to become a dancer to do it - you don't.

  Tracy Anderson

  Thinking, People, Dancer

  "Teeny, tiny body, anyone?". www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2009.

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• Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood.

  Andrew Weil

  Yoga, Exercise, Benefits

  "10 Ways to Have a Happier Life" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.

  Jane Fonda

  Workout, Exercise, Work Out

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• I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Long, Training, Weight

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• It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Running, Athlete

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Dublin, Ireland, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• See, I never gain an ounce, because, you know, my anxiety acts like aerobics.

  Woody Allen

  Anxiety, Gains, Knows

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• With Aerobic Strip Tease, you can do it at home - it makes it easier for women that don't want to go to the gym.

  Carmen Electra

  Home, Want, Tease

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• My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

  Justin Cronin

  Running, Exercise, Thinking

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• I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.

  Bob Iger

  Lifting Weights, Work Out, Use

  "How Bob Iger works". Interview with Devin Leonard, archive.fortune.com. December 6, 2007.

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• I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind

  Peter Steele

  Thinking, Mind, Bores

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• I love going to the gym and taking aerobics classes and kickboxing. Doing a variety of activities keeps it fresh and helps work other muscles that could potentially help you with your game.

  Swin Cash

  Games, Class, Kickboxing

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• It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio and strength training, because I want them to have a better life than I did. I don't want them to grow up to be me. I want them to be healthy. I want them not to go through eating disorders [like me].

  Richard Simmons

  Dream, Growing Up, Teaching

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.

  Megyn Kelly

  Body, Another Life, Used

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• I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

  Sting

  Fitness, Running, Used

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• Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Running, Morning, Food

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• There's always one teacher you had a crush on; for me, it's my wife's aerobics instructor.

  Brian Kiley

  Crush, Teacher, Wife

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• Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion, aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing our body into hideous shiny Spandex, grinning like a deranged orangutan, and doing cretinous steps to debauched disco music.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Fitness, Disco Music, Cable Tv

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• Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as well. Think of pure pain: that's the ergometer.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Pain, Thinking, Weight Lifting

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• I'm Latina. I was born with high heels. We crossed border in high heels. We were running from immigration...I can do aerobics in heels.

  Eva Longoria

  Running, High Heels, Immigration

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• Im not a big fan of the gym, I do lots of outdoor aerobics - yoga, swimming, running - but I kinda hate talking about it. We have a term in Australia, it makes you sound like a wanker.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Running, Hate, Yoga

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