Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom.
Interpretation
Exercise and nutrition are both essential for a healthy lifestyle, working best in combination.
This quote emphasizes the importance of both exercise and nutrition in achieving overall health and fitness. By referring to exercise as 'king' and nutrition as 'queen', it highlights their equal importance and suggests that one cannot reign supreme without the other, ultimately leading to a 'kingdom' of health when both are prioritized together.
In practice
During a health seminar, one might say, 'As Jack Lalanne said, exercise is king and nutrition is queen - we must balance both for optimal health.'
How do you build up your bank account? By putting something in it everyday.Your health account is no different. What I do today, I am wearing tomorrow. If I put inferior foods in my body today, I'm going to be inferior tomorrow, it's that simple.
Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield... . Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.
Don't talk age! Age has nothing to do with it. One of my guys who started out at my gym is 87 now, and he still does ten bench-press reps with a hundred-pound dumbbell in each hand. He's training to set a leg-pressing record. I put things in the guy's brain way back when, and now he'll never get away from it.
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.
You should not actually stay in bed for very long awake, because your brain is this remarkably associative device, and it quickly learns that the bed is about being awake. So you should go to another room - a room that's dim. Just read a book - no screens, no phones - and, only when you're sleepy, return to the bed.
Health is the greatest possession.
It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.
My research has shown me that when emotions are expressed-which is to say that the biochemicals that are the substrate of emotion are flowing freely-all systems are united and made whole. When emotions are repressed, denied, not allowed to be whatever they may be, our network pathways get blocked, stopping the flow of the vital feel-good, unifying chemicals that run both our biology and our behavior.
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.
As we get better at reversing aging it will be possible to take one medicine and within weeks feel and even look younger. Imagine going to a doctor to get a pill for diabetes, and this same medicine will prevent heart disease, Alzheimer's, cancer, and will give you more vitality too.
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