Darcey Bussell Quotes

I work out. I'm getting toned, too. The Wii Fit really works your body. When I get off, I'm dying.

Fitness is defined differently by everyone, but for me, the most important thing is being healthy. As tennis players, what we do is not the healthiest thing. We almost abuse our bodies.

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

The only constant that I have in my life is that I start whatever I do with my Total Gym, because I believe it helps keep me from getting injured.

I think I'm in better shape now than I was 10 years ago, but it takes a bigger toll - I get back pain!

The most important thing is if you keep your body in good shape, you know what you have to do for your body.

I got extremely fit and slim on 'Strictly,' but I did find that, each week, a different part of my body hurt. It really makes you realise the hard work dancers have to put in and how fit they have to be.

Fitness is also about being well-rested, eating well, etc.

I'm an athlete, so I can get up one day and run and it wouldn't bother me. I don't get the time because I work for long hours every day. Being constantly on the move itself helps me stay fit. I don't go to a gym. I use the stairs, not the lift. I'm not into fitness, but I feel I should start, as it's healthy.

I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.

I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet in the basin to keep supple, and I don't eat things that have a pulse.

I do yoga, lunges, crunches, things like that for 40 minutes twice a week. For cardio I usually do the elliptical, treadmill or walking.

I typically do yoga and I walk everywhere, and that's how I get my exercise.

The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.

Some people start a sport just to reduce weight, or some say, 'My doctor ordered me to run and do exercise', and for others, they run for completely different benefits. But it is not like that with sport. We need to eat, we need to rest, but also we need to run.

Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.

I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.

With fitness, I do Bikrams hot yoga. The gym that I have in my building is amazing. I love to do cardio and weights there.

A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body to your brain. Look at Albert Einstein. He rode a bicycle. He was also an early student of Jazzercise. You never saw Einstein lift his shirt, but he had a six-pack under there.

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

At 28, you need recovery time after training.

I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

I attend dance class every alternate day, and it works like a cardio workout for me. I also do weight training in the gym every alternate day.

I really love and it is important to me to be physically fit.

I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.