Dick Cheney Quotes

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.

Once I got both my hips replaced, I could start working out and going Pilates, and it's helped me be more active and youthful.

The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.

Obviously, getting stronger is the key, and knowing how to use my body, knowing what to expect.

For me, fitness is a part of my everyday life. But fitness does not mean having big muscles; it means being active, quick, and flexible. It can be defined in many terms.

You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.

I go to the gym four times a week for 45 minutes to an hour without fail; I like using weights for muscle tone and the bike and rower for my heart rate. I do quite a lot of floor exercises.

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.

When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.

So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.

I'm not athletic.

I've been doing Pilates since 1974, I lift weights, I power walk every day and I run backwards. That's sometimes a little hard when you're not on your home turf, because you've got to find a place where there are no bumps in the way - or people.

I run or walk three times a week. I do Pilates, too, which is amazing - it makes you longer and leaner.

I like exercise. I like a healthy body.

I like to stay fit by being generally active.

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.

I like to exercise. I always walk an hour a day, I swim 250 days a year and I do balancing exercises which take me an hour.

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.

I do yoga almost daily. I try to fit in swimming and cycling when I can.

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 do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.

I think it'd be wonderful if we could train young girls to be active in lots of ways and that they then wouldn't have to age at the same rate that they would if they were not more active. In other words, more physical fitness and not just the sporty kind, but the yoga, which is really important.

I try to work out six days a week, you know, weights two days a week, and I try to run those six days, so I get good cardio.