Richard Simmons Quotes

I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.

Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body.

Pilates is great.

Most people should not do aerobic exercises for more than 30 minutes, because after that your chances of injury increase.

People would say you need to do stretches and all of that. I would be very careful with doing that. I, if anything, go on a rotary weight machine and try and go as far as you can both ways, rotate as far as you can both ways so that you can create strength through motion.

I'm very involved with Pilates as well; you have to be careful. I can't do headstands any more, I have a neck and a spinal problem, but I used to do it.

When I am getting ready to cross a street, I look both ways before crossing. My bones, my muscles, are not what they used to be, so I am careful when I go up and down stairs, because I've heard stories of older people falling and having very disabling injuries. I have enough things that begin to go a little bit wrong as I get a little bit older.

As an athlete, everyone was always like, 'Listen to your body.' Whether it's an injury or whether it's just a nagging ache, that can affect your progress just because you think 'Oh, I'll push through it today' and then you can't work out for two weeks. I've learned that, as a skater, I'm very aware of that.

I'm not really in a hurry to ever wear a neck brace. That's why I'm kind of positive about it, because I'm healthy.

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

Personally, I don't think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. I've often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner, ever?

I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.

[One] who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.

The things that stop you having sex with age are exactly the same as those that stop you riding a bicycle.

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

There is no magic milkshake or workout machine. I think the real machine is your body. I do love treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes, free weights.

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

Your body has this instinct to start healing and then you go back to work and it hurts even more. It's almost better to keep your body messed-up on a consistent basis.

I love cycling. I am going to keep racing as hard as I can until this body doesn't allow me to any more.

It is sad to see anyone neglecting their body no matter who they are and what they do. You simply cannot be healthy or look great on the outside if you are not healthy on the inside.

I have seen her [Hillary Clinton] in several other situations where she didn't look healthy.

There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body.

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.