August Krogh Quotes

Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.

A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time ..., not in a free state, but in a state of combination.

I think when you work out a lot, you can afford to eat more because your body's metabolism is higher.

After being in a gym, you're super hungry all the time because you're burning all these calories.

You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.

I'm lucky I have a fast metabolism... my whole family does... everyone's got a lot of nervous energy so we burn it off.

I have an incredibly high metabolism.

When doing your aerobic exercise, go at a comfortable pace until you've developed more stamina.

I have a very high metabolism, and I have to constantly eat to keep on going.

If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting.

Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.

Your cells are not working as hard as your dog's but harder than your horse's. The bigger the animal, the less energy needed to sustain a gram of tissue.

I'm lucky to have a fast metabolism, so I haven't had to exercise much.

I have to eat a lot more in the summer because I'm burning more calories.

I have a surprisingly large appetite anyway and I don't drive, I walk everywhere, I don't sit down at the moment and I pace the hallway when I'm on the phone. I think that if I didn't eat large amounts of carbs and cheese I would wither away into a husk.

I cannot emphasise enough how important exercise is. I have to do at least a three-mile fast walk a day, usually in the afternoon. Movement is incredibly important in helping my body use up my energy.

I try to work out twice a week. I don't restrict myself from any food in my diet; I think it's all about balance. I'm also very lucky with my genetics and metabolism.

Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.

I burned sixty calories. That should take care of a peanut I had in 1962.

So when it comes down to it, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie: There is only one moral of the story: burn as many damn calories as possible whenever you work out.

Everything you do, burns calories. Getting up in the morning, 100 calories; kicking the hooker out of your bed, another 100; diapering your monkey, 35 calories; laughing at a midget, fun and 10 calories; catching your girlfriend with another guy, 2000-3000 calories, depending on backswings.

I jog and I roller-skate. I dance - that's the best exercise.

I try my best to stay healthy, but I have the appetite of a nine-year-old boy, so I just pay for it in workouts.

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.