I have managed to stay fit all thanks to my habits. I train regularly and have maintained great fitness habits.
A lot of fitness has that very masculine energy and drive, and that never worked for me. I want to be challenged. I don’t want to be told that I’m terrible and that I suck and that I’m not good enough – that’s not motivating.
My intention is not to be an American TV personality. My intention is not to be a Spanish TV personality. My intention is to talk about health and fitness and being a mom.
But I always had in built strength. I used to do like push ups for three hours. It’s building up that core fitness and stamina.
I am 5 ft 6 in, and at my peak, my vital statistics were 37-22-35. I didn’t even think about my weight – but now I work hard at keeping healthy. Fortunately, my husband Richie is as much of a fitness buff as I am.
I always wanted to make sure that within my unit that I was never the weak person. So I made sure that my physical fitness was top.
I don’t really have a fitness regime. I swim regularly and hit the gym once in a while but I also eat a lot.
Your fitness is your ability to recover and you can’t recover when you’re old.
The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.
Fitness is about keeping yourself healthy. This is something you do for yourself and for your loved ones.
The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
If someone thinks, ‘I’ll spend the off season working on my fitness and I’ll come back a better cricketer,’ I don’t think that’s enough. You need to spend a lot of time working on your skills and honing your skills.
I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.
The manager and the fitness staff condition every training session. They plan it out week by week on what players need. If players need a rest, they will do that; if players need to work hard, they will do that as well.
For Le Mans, you still have to keep fit, it’s endurance. It’s a different type of fitness. You want to actually fit in the car – the seats are ridiculously small.
To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ in 2008 was great for my fitness.
The only weights I lift are my dogs.
I have never hidden my injury before, or fitness problems. Even my shoulder operation was planned after consulting the then coach Gary Kirsten and skipper MS Dhoni.
I am careful with my diet, but at the same time, I regularly meditate and do yoga early in the morning. That’s the only reason for my fitness.
I have run two Olympic ‘A’ standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
Walking is easy for most people to adopt into their lifestyle, regardless of their current level of fitness. Plus is convenient and fun!
I can’t eat whatever I want, definitely not. I’m always controlled because I do a lot of fitness and triathlons, not just Formula One, so I always make sure I eat the right things.
I think it’s more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
I was really into fitness.
We had a bunch of ‘we’s – a fitness concept, a restaurant concept. The first business plan we had included all of them.
When I’m filming, my fitness levels fall off, but when I’m not, I try to go to the gym a few times a week.
I think fitness and doing gym should be like brushing teeth everyday in the morning as it should come automatically without any excuse.
What I had said was that as a cricketer, you have to take care of your body and look after your fitness levels, and someone altered that statement and quoted me as saying that I wanted to quit playing Test cricket. It’s totally untrue, and as long as I am fit, I want to play in all formats.
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.
A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.
Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.
The Swimsuit competition hasn’t ever been about being sexy. It’s about showcasing your dedication to your health and fitness and how you exude confidence.
Fitness is just like marriage: you cannot cheat on it and think it would benefit you. People need to incorporate it as part of their daily life.
So I’ve broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.
I decided to write ‘True Refuge’ during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
Exercise and fitness will always be part of my life but it does not have to be lifting huge weights; I like yoga, cycling, walking swimming, anything.
I believe it’s extremely important to include some other type of fitness activity in your training, so cross training will help you to avoid injury when you are dancing.
I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher.
I’m not an athlete, and I’m not a gymnast, but I’ve always loved any type of sport and fitness, and I love running Tough Mudder or Spartan races and anything that’s strength.
I think that fitness really kind of saved me and made me the person that I am today, through losing my dad and everything that I’ve had to deal with.
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.
There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor – all subtly different personas.
At Milan, Kaka used to work even when we had two or three days off. And our fitness coach, Daniele Tognaccini, made him run.
Fitness is easy to achieve but very difficult to maintain. Therefore, it becomes a life-long process which you have to live with and need to be extremely disciplined.
At the beginning of the season, you’re still getting your fitness levels up, and those first few games are quite tough.
Whatever fitness I have, I still feel that I’m one of the best in the league, I don’t care how fit I am, I believe in my ability.
Some people have that school of thought where fitness isn’t enjoyable, but we’re making it enjoyable, I think, by making it more fun, challenging, and engaging rather than this boring thing that you have to do. It’s about using technology and data to change this experience.
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that’s the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.
While I’m very into fitness, I’m much more used to swinging kettlebells around than my actual body.
When you don’t play, you really feel the difference of what matches give you. The match-sharpness, the fitness. It’s what you need to progress.
Of course, on the road with me, I’ve got my coach, my own private physiotherapist. Back home, I have another coach who coaches me and also does all my racquets. I have a fitness trainer. I have a mental coach. It’s a pretty big team.
People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn’t help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.
I am a fitness freak.
Whenever I retire, I’ll still be playing the game, whether that’s at an L.A. Fitness or somewhere else.
Every player needs to be aware of the levels of fitness needed to play international cricket.
In the U.S., my whole life, I felt like I had to be the best and score more goals and run with more fitness so I could be the one in the limelight. I think that when I went to Sweden, I found the joy of being part of a team and contributing to everybody’s success.
I enjoy fitness. I’ve always enjoyed trying to stay healthy. I’ve enjoyed all my gym work; obviously there’s a cross-over with that going into cricket. But you also talk of finding an escape and I think in the last year or so, running has provided me with that.
