You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I’m so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.
What I do is I’m trying to bridge the gap between yoga and fitness.
I understand only three things – films, fitness, and food.
Fitness, defending, the mental stuff – those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
Being in hockey shape is totally different than any other kind of fitness. You can run and bike and work out all summer and then go on the ice for one shift and you’re dead.
Let’s face it: fitness is boring. But it’s critical to be extremely dedicated to whatever you decide to take up to achieve a desired result. There’s no way you are going to get there without dedication, which is the key for me.
The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80’s.
When you get into the final week of the Tour de France, it becomes a different kind of race. As the distance and the fatigue really tell, that is when it becomes a proper test of everyone’s fitness.
I’ve been passionate about fitness my entire life, and the ability to compete for the ‘Tough Enough’ crown is truly rewarding.
I eat super healthy and I’m super fit. I dabble in every type of fitness. I have a trainer and I go to the gym. I do yoga as well.
When I was back to 100 per cent fitness, I was able to show what I was capable of. I like to think I will bring a freshness into the Euros, and now that I am captain, I am going to do my best to take responsibility.
Fitness is not an option. It’s part of my job.
Fitness is also something I have worked on, especially because I know I have to bowl a lot more if I want to play for the country.
While I try to keep my fitness regimen consistent, during awards season, I’m especially conscious of what I’ll be wearing and plan my workouts accordingly.
Those who aren’t actors needn’t juggle from lean to bulky and back. It’s great to maintain a stable body type. Be consistent in your approach towards fitness.
In England you get fitness from playing.
For much of the year, you’re just trying to maintain your fitness. It’s not often you get a lot of time to really concentrate on improving it.
I want mums and dads to get up together and train with the kids, exercise, have fun together and connect through fitness.
Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.
Fitness is something that you can aspire for in terms of levels of achievements.
Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.
I remember, before the 2003 World Cup, I worked extremely hard on my fitness. A great deal of training and dietary discipline. I believe I lost 19 kg. And 19 is the number of runs I scored in the entire tournament.
The love for fitness is something I picked up from my dad, and I make it a point not to miss working out.
I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman’s body.
In Sevens, fitness is crucial, and it’s going to come down to how quickly my body gets in shape.
Fitness has nothing to do with age.
When I began, I was more of a swing bowler with little pace, but I realized it will be difficult to sustain without the pace, so my fitness has now allowed me maybe an extra yard of pace. That has been the secret of my success.
I am pleased with the fitness that I have.
For most athletes, there’s a focus on your own fitness, but I have to rely on my horse, too. I’ve been very lucky so far, and it hasn’t presented a problem, but you can never count on a competition going as planned until you’re there and actually doing it.
I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
I train Monday through Saturday. I usually have fitness training for 90 minutes, then I’m on the tennis court for 3 to 4 hours.
Compared to my physique before pregnancy, yes, I do feel different. I have worked really hard and changed a few things – not only my fitness regime but also my nutrition. When I think about it, being pregnant definitely helped my physique.
One of the things I’ve always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it’s also about stillness and silence.
I used to be very into fitness and would happily pose for photos in my bikini. Now I look at those and think, ‘Where did that body go?’ But that was before children.
In other fitness pursuits, you may have learned to go through the motions first and perfect your form second. In Pilates, it’s the other way around. You learn to control your abs first and then proceed through a series of more progressive movements. At all times, you should feel in control of your body.
No one’s ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that’s abandoned by February.
As the issue of youth fitness – from obesity to proper exercise regimens – takes on more resonance in schools and communities across the country, CrossFit Kids and other preschool fitness programs are raising questions about when and how children should start playing organized sports or hitting the gym.
When I’m on the road, I’ll break my exercise into a cardio session and a weights session.
My husband and I own a CrossFit Gym. Crossfit is perfect for me because it’s always competitive, all the workouts are in a class environment, and it’s different every day. It’s a constantly varied functional fitness workout done with intensity.
Fitness is very important to me because it helps give me a routine when I travel. It gives me one hour of ‘me’ time and passes the time when I’m lonely. Living with scoliosis serves as a constant reminder to keep my core and back strong. If I get lazy, I feel it in my back first.
My fitness approach and philosophy are based on day-to-day functionalities. These functions are bending, lifting, lunging, pulling, pushing and squatting.
I feel like in my field, like in fitness, or in health, you kind of need to read journal articles, like health journal articles, or fitness.
People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.
If you look at what people typically wear when they play, OK, my clothes could be considered provocative. But I’m not wearing them for a reaction. I’m just comfortable in fitness clothing. Golf is a sport, so dress like an athlete. Name another sport where people wear khakis and cotton polos?
You’ve got to have charisma and other things in addition to athleticism. But I’ve got my background in fitness, I’ve done my training and put time in to develop my craft. So I can push the envelope with those seductive storylines but still show people that I can kick butt, too.
I look at fitness as a necessity in the same way as how you drink water, eat food, one should look at fitness in a dedicated way. People will look fresh and happy. If you are happy, you in a way look fit.
I don’t think your twenties are for fitness, but when I got to my thirties I started to get fit.
If you’re really unfit and you want to get into fitness, just starting at home with some really basic, gentle stuff is going to build up your confidence and your fitness. This way, if you do decide to join a gym, you’re not going to be really intimidated and just run out the door.
I don’t smoke, don’t drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.
The meteoric rise of the ‘wellness’ industry online has launched an entire industry of fitness celebrities on social media. Millions of followers embrace their regimens for diet and exercise, but increasingly, the drive for ‘wellness’ and ‘clean eating’ has become stealthy cover for more dieting and deprivation.
Pole dancing is a great way to enhance your fitness level and also your dancing abilities.
A feeble body weakens the mind.
Cleanliness is important, and more than that is the physical fitness to attain healthy body and mind.
It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve.
Practice puts brains in your muscles.
There are people who intensely clutch an idea that yoga is a higher system, not to be lowered to the weight loss or even fitness category. This is the same kind of clutching that has kept yoga part of a tightly knit club for so long since its introduction in America.
Technically, I am not bad. What I needed to work on was mainly on fitness and my court coverage.
One of my key mental fitness tips is to make sure you are aware of your target and develop a strategy – a routine that you can depend on while in the race. This is a crucial part of mental fitness and preparation.