Tom Rath Quotes

Inactivity is the killer and, remember, it's never too late.

The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

A new study published by The British Medical Journal found that inactivity can kill you. I mean, these are the kind of findings that just scare the hell out of Congress.

People go to the movies instead of moving.

Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down.

Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular or sustained leisure time activity.

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.

TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.

I've never been to the gym. I do nothing.

Sometimes I log more than my fair share of hours on my tush - behind my desk, in the car, in front of the TV. And all that sitting can turn even the tightest buns into rice pudding.

The only way you can hurt your body is if you don't use it

Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to...Why else would we have feet?

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.

What's really heavy on my heart is fighting physical inactivity.

I've got plenty of arthritis. But if you keep moving, it won't bother you that much. That's why old guys stiffen up. They forget they have to get out of their chairs and do something. You let the moss grow over, it's your own fault.

It's not that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity runs in your family...It's that no one runs in you family!

The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

Idleness ruins the constitution

Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.

They dont want you to exercise.

A recent study shows that standing at work for long periods of time is bad for you, after earlier research indicated that sitting for too long at work is bad for you. So really the only thing we know is, work is bad for you.