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Exercise
Percentage
of American's who own running shoes but don't run: 87%
Charis
Conn
Ed.
What Counts: The Complete Harper's Index.
Sign
on a men's gym door: We have courses to make grown men young and young men
grown.
Source
Unknown.
Doctor
to patient: Sorry
but right now you're not in good enough shape to get in
shape.
Source
Unknown.
On
Saturday
December 23
1972
Richard Knecht of Prospect
Oregon
set out to
shatter the existing world sit-up record. For the past six months a Marine
Corps captain had held the record
with an amazing 17
007. Knecht was
determined to capture the title for his family team
which tours the nation
demonstrating the utmost in physical fitness. He began the grueling attempt in
Idaho Falls
Idaho
and 11 hours and 14 minutes later had shattered the record
with 25
222 sit-ups. How many years of training had gone into preparing for
this Herculean feat? Not as many as you might think. When he set the record
Richard Knecht was 8 years old.
Reported
in Campus Life.
A
retired couple decided that they should walk two miles a day to stay in shape.
They chose to walk a mile out on a lonely country road so they would have no
choice but to walk back. At the one-mile mark on their first venture
the man
asked his wife
"Do you think you can make it back all right
or are you
too tired?" "Oh
no
" she said. "I'm not tired. I can make
it fine." "Good
" he replied. "I'll wait here. You go back
get the car and come get me."
Joyce
Redding in Reader's Digest
February 1980.
Regular
exercise toughens the mind as well as the body. After working out three times a
week for six months
one group was found to be 20% fitter. Bonus: they also
scored 70% better in a test of complex decision making.
American
Health
quoted in Homemade
November 1985 .
Daily
Exercise for the Non-Athletic: A calorie guide citing a recent medical
association report: "Proper weight control and physical fitness cannot be
attained by dieting alone. Many people who are engaged in sedentary occupations
do not realize that calories can be burned by the hundreds by engaging in
strenuous activities that do not require physical exercise." Here's the
guide to calorie-burning activities and the number of calories per hour they
consume.
Beating
around the bush..................... 75
Jumping to conclusions......................100
Climbing the walls..........................150
Swallowing your pride....................... 50
Passing the buck............................ 25
Throwing your weight around
(depending on your weight)..........50-300
Dragging your heels.........................100
Pushing your luck...........................250
Making mountains out of molehills...........500
Hitting the nail on the head................ 50
Wading through paperwork....................300
Bending over backwards...................... 75
Jumping on the bandwagon....................200
Running around in circles...................350
Eating crow.................................225
Tooting your own horn....................... 25
Adding fuel to the fire.....................150
Opening a can of worms...................... 50
Source
Unknown.