The only way you can hurt your body is if you don't use it Jack LaLanne More Quotes by Jack LaLanne More Quotes From Jack LaLanne I believe so strongly in what I do and I practice what I preach! My Dad died at fifty - do I have to die at fifty? My Dad ate all the junk food, he wouldn't exercise - how can you tell your Dad anything? We know about nutrition and we know about exercise. There's no reason for anybody to be sick and tired, fat and out of shape - it's ridiculous! Jack LaLanne tired dad believe You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life. Jack LaLanne religious spiritual thank-you You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out. Jack LaLanne bank-accounts accounts exercise Homosexuals love to look good. They're clean, neat. They're fastidious, well mannered and well educated. They like aesthetic things. They like good, firm, tight bodies. Health. They want to attract other guys. What's wrong with that? Why be slobs? You've got to be insane to suggest that because someone looks good, he must be gay. That's envy. Jack LaLanne envy gay guy You should do it against the clock. Say you are going to do 30 laps in 15 minutes. Then you try to do it each day a little faster. That is putting demands on the body, and that is how you build up. You keep up your energy instead of going downhill. Jack LaLanne lap energy trying If you're tired and pooped out all the time, do you have love and compassion in your heart for your fellow man? You don't even like yourself! Jack LaLanne tired heart men You need to make good health a hobby. Jack LaLanne good-health hobbies needs Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life? Jack LaLanne who-we-are why-not matter It's difficult to change overnight but if you are persistent and take one step at a time you will see results! Jack LaLanne one-step-at-a-time results steps When it comes to health, diet is the Queen, but exercise is the King. Jack LaLanne queens kings exercise I eat 6 or 7 raw vegetables every day, 4 or 5 pieces of fresh fruit. I eat egg whites each day. If I eat bread, it has to be whole wheat. I eat brown rice. I don't eat between meals. I eat at 11 o'clock in the morning and 7 o'clock at night. Jack LaLanne vegetables morning night Twelve to seventeen minutes is plenty on the treadmill--if it's done fast. That's all you need for cardiovascular benefit. You don't need to spend that extra time unless you are over weight and you need to burn off extra calories. Do it vigorously, like somebody is chasing you. You've got to do it hard. Otherwise, if you just take it easy and do it longer, you are spending all that time when you don't need it. Use that extra time with your weights instead. Jack LaLanne extra-time use needs I tell people that the scales lie. You may have played basketball and weighed 175 pounds, with a 30-inch waist, back when you were in college. And you may still weigh 175 at 55. But you probably have a 35-inch waist and you've probably lost 30 or 40 pounds of muscle -- and gained 30 or 40 pounds of fat. The tape measure doesn't lie. Get that tape measure out and put it on your hips and your waist. Keep checking it. And keep exercising and cutting those calories down until that tape measure gets close to where you were in your prime. Jack LaLanne cutting basketball lying People don't die of old age, they die of neglect. Jack LaLanne neglect age people There are so many health nuts out there who eat nothing but natural foods but they don't exercise and they look terrible. Then there are other people who exercise like a son-of-a-gun but eat a lot of junk... Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom. Jack LaLanne queens kings son Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation? Jack LaLanne exercise sports sex I want to move well and comfortably, and enjoy the world around me. Jack LaLanne want world moving Many so-called spiritual people, they overeat, drink too much, they smoke and don't exercise. But they do go to church every week and pray 'Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.' Jack LaLanne spiritual exercise fitness My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years. Jack LaLanne workout way years Be an example of what you teach. [As a personal trainer], delve into your student's life, know everything about him. Be interested. Jack LaLanne teach example students
