Top 150 Cardio Quotes

I work out six days a week. I do pilates, Bikram yoga and spinning. Every once in awhile, I’ll throw weights in. I like to get some kind of cardio in every day, even if it’s just hiking.

I try to work out about four or five times a week. I’ll do a little bit of cardio, half hour on the punchbag, or just go for a jog.

Gym sessions will always consist of 40 minutes to one-hour cardio. I try to stay off the treadmill because of the pounding, so it’s the rower or the cross-trainer.

All the circuit training, it’s cardio circuit training, so everything you‘re doing, you’re still running up your heart rate. You’re burning, I think, triple the amount of calories than if you were just weight lifting.

Cardio’s not really my deal.

If your goal is to look different, you’ll see results faster with strength training than with cardio alone.

For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o’clock, and I’ll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I’ll go train.

My workouts always start with doing some cardio.

At Grudge, we just push each other. Whether it’s sparring five rounds or rolling and doing drills, I do most of my cardio at practice. As far as running outside or riding a bike? That’s not fighting, so I only do things that are going to help me in the Octagon.

I do yoga and a little bit of cardio to keep myself fit because it’s very important for me to feel healthy from the inside.

Besides controlling my diet, I did functional training, weights, pilates and cardio everyday.

My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

Well you always have your favourites, and least favourites, I’m generally a cardio person, I love running that’s what I enjoy the most from everything that I do, and swimming is the least favourite and the toughest for me because I’m not so good at it!

I do cardio everyday, which involves a 25-minute run or jog besides 45-minute-long weight training. I don’t lift heavy weights. As far as my diet is concerned, I have seven small meals a day.

I like doing weights and cardio and some jump rope.

Before I got pregnant, I was doing Pilates a couple times a week, and I actually loved Pilates. I noticed a difference with my core, which is my problem area, so that was nice. For me, I don’t do a lot of cardio. I lift more weights.

Most gyms now have TVs. You can prop up reading material on the cardio equipment.

I try and keep busy and lift some weights and do cardio as much as I can.

Who’s held down Gaethje and beat him up? Nobody. He’s so powerful, cardio never seems to be a problem.

Some weeks, I’m super-duper busy, so I can only fit cardio in here and there, a lot of stuff happens in the afternoon, so I can get up and have a workout, which makes me feel awesome for the rest of my day. There’s just something sexy about feeling strong. And every night I’m onstage, I get another workout.

I go to the gym rather early with a workout pal. I get there at 7, or a little before, and do weights and a little cardio for an hour, five days a week.

I mix up my workouts to make sure I get cardio, toning, and strengthening covered.

We do cardio, core strength, lifting – and we train in the mornings, which I hate.

I try to work out six days a week, you know, weights two days a week, and I try to run those six days, so I get good cardio.

I like to do at least 15 minutes of cardio every day if I can fit it in.

The first thing I do when I wake up is cardio on an empty stomach. I’ll just drink water, or maybe I’ll have a black coffee with no sugar, and I’ll do about 25 minutes of cardio, six days a week.

A combination of cardio exercises on the rowing machine, treadmill, elliptical, or The Gauntlet will help blast fat in the lower half of the body.

I’ve got to get my cardio up. I’m usually known as the fitness guy on the Stanford team, but not 70 to 80 plays a game, so I’ve definitely got to step that up. But I’m all about it.

My fitness regimen primarily consists of power yoga, cardio and light weight training.

If I eat something a little crazy or if I feel sluggish, I know I have to eat better the next day and work out. I work out, I do circuit training so I try to keep my heart rate up whether I’m doing cardio, lifting weights or jumping rope. I like to mix it up. I also take Zumba classes – I love those, those are a blast.

No matter how much cardio you do – running or biking or whatever – it’s never the same as being in the ring.

My main exercise is cardio. The treadmill is fine, but running outdoors gives me the best results. I try to log 6 to 8 miles a week. I could be in the worst mood, but when I do my cardio, I feel much, much better.

Cardio is the devil.

I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I’m prepping for something or I’ve been eating a lot of pie, I do two hours a day, six days a week for two weeks.

I get a little bit of cardio.

For weight gain, one must do cardio in the evening and for weight loss, in the morning. So, while gaining weight, I did weight training in the mornings and light cardio in the evenings.

When I’m not working I do go to the gym and do my cardio but nothing beats the high-heel workout!

Lyoto is never going to lose his skills. He might lose his timing, speed, cardio, but he’ll never lose his skills.

Hip hop classes and ballet are what I’ve been keeping up with, and of course my usual abdominal workout, which consists of 500 sit-ups a session. Or I take a 30-minute abs class at my gym. But dance classes are a full-body cardio workout, which always brings me success and keeps me feeling great.

I just hate going to the gym, unless I need to do cardio once in a while. I think gymming makes you stiff and takes your aura away.

I try to do something every day. I lift weights at least three to four days per week, and I’ll intersperse that with cardio. For example, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I’ll run and do heavy lifting, and on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I’ll spend two hours lifting weights, as well as something like swimming.

Ideally, it would be five days a week, spending at least an hour at the gym doing cardio three of those days and resistance training all of those days. My cardio is typically interval training.

I work out with Pilates – it’s a great workout for body alignment. I work out every day with once a week break. I mix it with weight training and cardio.

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer‘s body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it’s a good way to decompress.

We run on the beach some days, and others, we run hills behind the gym. We also do several hours of grappling each week as mixed with some intense cardio in the ring.

I really like to bike outdoors and love the weight-based workouts that I do. I am not the biggest fan of other cardio-based workouts. Off-season cardio sessions are pretty grueling.

I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.

I’ve recently discovered Cardiobar. It’s in L.A. and it has Cardio Aerobics. It’s all women with no shoes on, dancing to upbeat music. I’m just dripping sweat at the end of the class. It’s very fun for me, and it makes me want to work out.

I love to do cardio. I like to run and sweat a lot, and I think that’s quite helpful.

I love doing a lot of cardio. It’s not so much for the way I look. It’s for how I perform. If I get in the ring with a 215-pounder, I wanna be able to keep up with him agility-wise. I take that back to my football days of being a large athlete that could move.

I do a lot of cardio. I think it’s super important, especially for women. I don’t have a tremendous amount of time to work out, so I find myself cramming in a cardio because that’s all I can fit in. I think that if you don’t have a lot of time, that it’s the cleanest way to burn a few calories.

A cardio workout increases blood flow and acts as a filter system. It brings nutrients like oxygen, protein, and iron to the muscles that you’ve been training and helps them recover faster.

Cardio should be added to a weightlifting programme to A, keep you fit and healthy and B, keep you somewhat lean.

Every fighter has their own type of cardio workout they like to do.

I like weightlifting and cardio workouts, and I’ll do a lot of circuit workouts and plyometric as well.

I do breakfast first, which is a small bowl of oatmeal and some sort of protein, like hard-boiled eggs. And then I work out – 40 minutes of cardio and maybe some strength training.

I do close to 30 minutes in cardio at a very high rate. I raise the level of intensity. I do a level 18 on the elliptical at four miles an hour for 20 minutes. That’s 360 calories. I want to see someone else try that. The resistance factor at 18 is brutal. No one goes to 20.

Around the holidays, or anytime I’m going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving.

I work out at home. I don’t have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.

I lift weights. I’ll do a lot of running, a lot of cardio and strengthening. I use my body weight, a TRX sometimes. A lot of it is endurance.

It’s not like I wake up and think, ‘Oh God, I have to go to the gym.’ It’s just pretty much a given. I do cardio, light weights, and a good stretch, and I always try to get to the pool for at least a 15-minute swim.

There was one day when I just didn’t feel like I could do weight training after my cardio, so I didn’t. You do have to know when to stop, or you can hurt yourself.

Cardio is boring for me, so running outside helps to keep me going.

I don’t like cardio since I get bored but dancing is another form of cardio that works well for me.

I have a gym at home where I do weight training as well as cardio. I love doing bench press but cannot share information on how much weight I lift. I also practise Yoga. My guru Sadhguru taught me different kriyas like Surya Namaskar, which I do for my personal well being.

I like lifting weights. And there is a cardio element to lifting if you’re doing it the way I do it.

I focus on my shape, about my cardio, about my strengths.

I do martial arts mostly. But if I am bored, or my body is aching, I swim or go the gym. I can sometimes be doing cardio on the treadmill, kick boxing, stretching, dance, whatever I feel like. I just make sure I have something to do every day but no particular set routine.

A lot of the off-ice is actually spent sort of as a recovery process. Because the closer we get to a competition, the more and more you do on-ice. So if you’re already on the ice three to four hours, you get enough cardio doing your run-throughs. But I sometimes do the elliptical or bike.

I concentrate on making everything strong, and you can’t do that with just cardio. I strength-train one day – and I’m not talking heavy weights, just a little. I see my trainer one day, next day I take a yoga class or cook. I’m not someone who just opens a pantry and rustles something up.

I have great cardio.

I’ve always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn’t just about doing cardio, it’s also when I can get my ‘me time’ to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.

I do things that are very uncharacteristic of a normal workout routine. I hate cardio. Absolutely hate it. I grew up as a wrestler, so it was constant cardio, cardio, cardio.

I eat a huge breakfast every morning. I do a lot of work at the gym, a lot of power-lifting, a lot of cardio, and I study wrestling tapes.

I love a mix of kickboxing, gym, yoga, Pilates, horse riding, and dancing. I also do skinny rappelling, which is a quick cardio workout with music and lighting, so it’s fun.

I try to be as fit as possible, so I do a lot of exercise every day. Cardio, weights, uphill walking.

I love doing Jazzercise! It’s totally reinvented itself. It’s upbeat, it’s a great cardio class for an hour, and you burn lots of calories.

Dance is a great way to stay fit; it improves postures and tones the body. It’s also a good cardio workout.

Cardio is king. This is how you make sure you don’t wear out in the fight.

When I go to the gym I never do cardio, it doesn’t really work for me. It makes you fitter and it makes your stamina better, so it’s better for your heart, but for me weights and resistance training is what sculpts your body so I do that.

If I could only do one exercise, it would be dead lifting. For cardio, I dance, I ride my bike, I run and I have kids. There is a… lot of cardio just from being a parent.

I do cardio, but I don’t like it as much. I’d rather do weights.

The difference between me and Tyron Woodley is that Tyron Woodley fights nervous; he fights scared. He doesn’t wanna get tired, so the thing with Tyron Woodley is that he doesn’t know how to push the pace. He doesn’t have cardio. He doesn’t have heart. He has a heart, but he doesn’t have heart. There’s a difference.

I work out for an hour and a half every day, alternating between cardio and weights. I also do yoga for an hour every alternate day and swim every other day.

I’m very strong and I have enough cardio for three or five rounds if I have to.

I run in a local park two or three times a week. I probably should do more than I do, but I also do weight-lifting along with that cardio.

When I am doing cardio I lose my muscle really fast because it just kills it. That’s why I have to do weights in the gym: to ensure I don’t lose my shape and can lift my dance partners above my head.

I don’t care how much weight’s on there. If you’re doing 40 reps, that’s cardio!

The first practice is two-and-a-half, three hours, and it’s really physical. The second practice starts after lunch at 1 p.m. We work on specific stuff, like coming to the net. After that, I play sets. Then I’m in the gym for an hour-and-a-half doing legs, upper body, and cardio.

Everybody wants to come out here and test my cardio but I’m one of the hardest working guys in the division.

My body shape has transformed as sports science research has developed. It used to be thought that footballers needed to be big and do lots of weights and little cardio.

What I’ve done is back off weight training and do more wrestling, cardio – where you’re building muscle but not building weightlifting muscle.

Cardio should remain low-impact at first. You can gradually kick up the intensity. Interval training is a great way to incorporate short bouts of strength and cardio efficiently, too.

I’ll do some running with the dogs, ride a bike; if I go to gym it’s usually for cardio. I don’t do weights as much; every once in while, I throw in some pushups and do leg exercises to strengthen my legs.

I try my best to stay healthy by paying attention to the ingredients in foods and trying to make sure my food is organic and not full of sugar or preservatives. I also try to do at least 30 minutes of cardio every day in the gym.

Salsa is a Latin dance and it’s great for stamina and cardio. There’s a lot of movement in the core area and so I feel like it’s awesome for sculpting your obliques and your back and just getting that area moving in general.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For ‘Immortals,’ it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.

To me, I’m going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like that.

A lot of people misunderstand what it means to have good cardio. Good cardio is when you are able to push the fight, and I’ve shown that in all of my fights.

I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I’ll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That’s the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I’ll hit the gym.

I’ve been working hard. I’m working on my wrestling, grappling more and I’m always working on my cardio.

I find cardio hard.

I work out every day, but my idea is to make something short. I work out a maximum half hour. I only do like 20 minutes of cardio, and I do some stretching and some light weights, and I’m out of there.

Dancing is the best exercise. Not only is it great cardio, but it works everything, strengthening your whole body.

I graduated from high school at 165 pounds, so twice a year, I get back to that number – I never let it get to 172-73. Then I go back to doubling the cardio. This week, I’m on a complete liquid diet, a juice fast. It keeps me lean and hungry.

‘Ghazi’ has underwater stunts and was physically taxing. That added to my cardio routine.

If I’m number one in the world, it’s for a reason. People can talk about the cardio all they want, but the results show it. So people behind me, they have to have really, really bad cardio also.

Both cardio and resistance training are essential for looking and feeling great.

I do cardio for 35 to 45 minutes, whether that’s on the elliptical or walking or running on the treadmill – I switch back and forth because I can get bored at times. Then, I’ll go do some weights – I’ll do some bicep curls, push-ups, sit-ups.

If, for example, I have a photoshoot that I need to look and feel my best for, then I give myself two weeks and that’s it. And I know if I just tighten my diet and up my cardio for those two weeks, I’ll be where I need to be and that’s because for the rest of the year I stick to the principles of my book.

I like to lift and do cardio to stay in shape, so I can walk the dog on somebody, and I like to be strong, but running 10 miles or a decathlon? That don’t support my interests.

I do doubles on Monday and Thursday, take Wednesday off or do easy cardio, do doubles on Thursday and Friday, and the weekend I just get outside and get active – jog or bike ride, or play tennis with my mom.

I do as many fun activities as possible. A lot of hiking, beach bike riding and walking. And cardio barre, which is a dance-based workout at a ballet barre. It’s a full-body workout for one hour on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in a studio.

Joanna is a great athlete, has good grappling, good striking, a lot of cardio, but her punching power is weak.

If you do cardio one day and the next day you can do weights, do it that way. If you need to do it at night or in the morning, do it that way. Whatever you need to get it done, just get it done.

People tend to lean on cardio machine handles, and their posture begins to suffer.

I love my body. And, I’m always working out. I’m an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t’ai chi or yoga.

I never run hills. My quads are already big enough. I don’t run to build muscle; I do it for cardio.

I am first one in the gym, I do cardio before I have breakfast, and I am training hard every day.

Don’t tie yourself down to one workout, as your muscles quickly adapt to a certain style of training, so you’ll see less results over time. The same can be said about cardio and your diet.

I lift weights and do as much cardio as I can make myself. I’m not a big cardio fan, and I hate doing legs.

For me, boxing’s like checkers, and MMA’s like chess – there are so many ways to win the match. It’s not barbaric; it’s boxing, kickboxing, Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling, cardio and it’s all reached such an amazing level. As fans learn more about the sport, they just fall in love with it.

My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.

People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you’re done. I’d say 95 percent of the time you don’t even know you just did it.

I find that the thing that makes every body look the best is great toning, and really, really targeting the muscles, and low cardio, where you’re sculpting and getting your heart rate up but not beating yourself up.

I normally hit the gym five times a week. I tend to do half an hour of cardio – on the treadmill or a spin class – then head for the weights. I do a lot of core work, obviously!

I still have to work on my cardio because I get tired very quickly. At Barcelona, I have a better lifestyle. At Dortmund, I didn’t have a great lifestyle, and I didn’t get injured, so it’s not that.

At the gym, I do full-body circuits with low weights and high repetitions, as well as four or five cardio intervals thrown into the mix. I put a lot of emphasis on core strength and flexibility training. I also do a lot of running in my free time. Anytime I can move my cardio outside in the sunshine, I do.

I won‘t tow the party line of doing ‘girlie’ yoga and cardio for physical transformations.

I’ve really stayed up with the cardio, because I know the Heat are going to make sure they want us in shape, the best shape, our body fat and stuff like that. So I’ve been really keeping up with my cardio.

I think most people don’t need as much cardio as they think they do.

I like to mix cardio with bodyweight exercises.

Fight prep, boxing, cardio, stretching. It’s almost like dancing, you have to learn to dance and keep practicing it.

My cardio, my conditioning, is a weapon.

I stick to a mix of cardio and yoga and go for healthy food. I don’t believe in starving to get into shape.

I’ve obviously got the brains. I’ve got the cardio.

I think it’s really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up.

Instead of doing cardio before I lift, as I usually do, I might do it first, doing 35 to 45 minutes of lifting before I get on the elliptical. Suddenly, it feels fresh and new and different, and that can be enough to give me a new outlook and improved mindset.

I do cardio once in the morning or evening.

Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill.

I do yoga, lunges, crunches, things like that for 40 minutes twice a week. For cardio I usually do the elliptical, treadmill or walking.

I love ‘Yoga With Adriene’ videos on YouTube, cardio hip-hop, and kickboxing.

I’ve got a yoga instructor and a trainer. I just started a heavy-bag class, which is like boxing and cardio, and I salsa dance with my girlfriends. I try to do something every day. Continually exercising is natural for us.

I can’t tell you how many guys have approached me when I’m doing cardio. Like, I have my headphones on; I’m in the zone, so don’t bother me.

I never really enjoyed cardio.

Sparring is probably the best cardio, but strength training is the best way to prevent the kind of injuries that come from roadwork and sparring.

Boxing, Jiu Jitsu, some good old-fashioned wrestling and plenty of cardio. You name it, it’s part of my routine.

My brain puts baths in the same category as yoga: it’d be ‘nice’ to relax for an hour, but I just want a 10-minute, high-impact workout; get in, get out. Showers are my cardio.

I do cardio. I run. I strength-train using my own body weight. I don’t like free weights, because I build muscle easily.

In the ’80s, I did two hours of cardio every day, split between running and the stationary bike. It was a trap – afterward I’d feel starving but also bulletproof, so I’d pig out. I slid into what I call exercise bulimia, when you’re running more and more miles so you can eat worse and worse food.