Bertrand Russell Quotes

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 never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.

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.

I'm super active, so sitting on the couch and staring at the walls isn't ideal for me.

The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.

Ask your doctor if getting off your ass is right for you

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.

Some people would never get any exercise at all if they didn't have to walk to their cars.

If only opening a Vitamin Water could be classified as working out.

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.

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

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

For 15 years of my life I smoked, I drank, I used to do drugs... but during that time, I never once thought I was going to die. But the second I set foot on a stairmaster -the second- I am sure my heart is gonna explode and blood is gonna spray out of my nose.

Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.

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.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

The only way you can hurt the body is not use it.