“Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.” PeopleYearsStatesDoneBodyEvilStudyFeetAdviceNeededTrainingPercentBiggerStrongerDistanceEightFatsIdiotDietsPoundsPerformersSeniorRunnersWorkoutProteinUtahDistance RunnerMotivational WorkoutCarbsCarbohydratesGrazingBody Fat Author:Dan John
“Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over time, and incrementally through no specific session, your body changes. Your mind becomes calloused to effort. You stop thinking of running as difficult or interesting or magical. It just becomes what you do. It becomes a habit.” ThinkingMindBodyRunningDifficultInterestingEffortHabitGloryTrainingExcitingSticksYour BodySessionHomeworkTediousInspirational RunningChanging Your MindBody Change Author:Jack Edmonds
“My aging body transmits an ageless life stream. Molecular and atomic replacement change life's composition. Molecules take part in structure and in training, countless trillions of them. After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.” BodyEarthStarsSkyReturnTrainingStructureAgingLife ChangingStreamsCompositionMoleculesTransmitReplacementsEarth And SkyAgeless Book:Autobiography of values Source: Autobiography of values
“At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of a specific body part with 10 seconds of rest. This must be done eight times within four minutes. Your heart rate shoots through the roof, but you burn a lot of fat.” HeartDoneBodyFourMinutesTrainingRateEightFatsSecondsIntensityRoofHeart Rate Author:Arjun Rampal
“Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.” BodyPastPurposeStepsClassFashionTrainingConsciousBoundsTraditionalBalletTiedExpertiseOld DaysAppreciativeRepetitiveElitistExecuting Author:Shirley MacLaine
“My body is a little bit sore from all of the practicing and playing and training, and your mind gets a little tired of it, too. It's nice to be able to recharge and come back fresh for the remainder of the year.” YearsMindLittlesBodyAbleBitsNiceLittle BitTrainingTired Author:Tiger Woods
“I find 12 P.M. as the best time to work out. During training, I do two body parts a day: chest-back, back-triceps or chest-biceps so that my body doesn't get used to a pattern.” TwoBodyUsedTrainingPatternsWork OutChestsBest TimesBicepsTriceps Author:Arjun Rampal
“I think it is easier for thinner people to build on a frame once you get lean muscle. I get bored lifting weights at the gym, and it isn't enough as your body becomes stiff. So I train in different ways such as core training, cardio with weights, playing sports such as tennis, cycling, swimming and running 10 km once a week.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentEnoughBodyRunningSportsWeekEasierTrainingWeightTrainYour BodyCoreBoredDifferent WaysTennisMusclesGymSwimmingLiftingCyclingCardioPlaying SportsCardiovascular ExerciseLifting Weights Author:Arjun Rampal
“Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.” MenWayShouldKindWarRealUseBodyMightWould BeHumanityFightingTeachKnowingStudyModernBecomingProtectWeaponsSurvivalTrainingEvidenceCrisisSpeciesCombatFierceVolunteerRestraintMassacresAdaptableAmenableWomen In Combat Author:Margaret Mead
“The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a discovery which in its importance to the future of human knowledge dwarfs the divinations of Newton and Galileo , even the discovery of the inductive and experimental method in Science was not more momentous.” HumansBodySpiritualEffortTrainingDiscoveryIndiaImportanceMethodAncientExperimentsConquestNewtonDwarfsHuman KnowledgeSeersAncient India Book:The Upanishads--II : Kena And Other Upanishads Source: The Upanishads--II : Kena And Other Upanishads
“The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. ... Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of exploiting his body and winning.” MeanPlayBodyJoyWinningIndividualSportsKnowingPiecesDisciplineTrainingTrainVariousEfficientHarshRelaxationCompulsion Author:Jacques Ellul