sedentary behavior Quotes

I'm super active, so sitting on the couch and staring at the walls isn't ideal for me.

Whatever I'm already doing becomes enhanced when I smoke pot. It can also be demotivating, because if I'm not doing anything and I smoke a joint, it enhances just sitting in a chair. Then I don't even want to get up to change a record. That might not be a bad thing, but you have to get things done once in a while.

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

Inactivity is the killer and, remember, it's never too late.

A recent study shows that standing at work for long periods of time is bad for you, after earlier research indicated that sitting for too long at work is bad for you. So really the only thing we know is, work is bad for you.

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

You will never, ever catch me at the gym.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place.

The only way you can hurt your body is if you don't use it

Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

Oh, I'm online all the time now. I'm not an outdoorsy type.

When you look at the fittest, leanest populations like Japan and Scandinavia, they don't even go to the gym. The average person in Sydney takes 11,000 steps a day, and the average person in Houston does 4000. Guess who is going to be leaner, regardless of their diet?

We've got to get people out of their cars, out of those drive-thru windows, get them walking, get them in parks and get them more active.

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

When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.

The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.

I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food.

My body is not designed to run. My body was designed to sit in an expensive care and drive.

They dont want you to exercise.

Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down.

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.

You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the same time investing in Dockers, spandex, Spanx, and sweatpants. Basically, anything with an elastic waistband is a goldmine.