Exercise Quotes

“Take care of your mind and your body. Even if you do not care about yourself, do it at least for the ones you care about: If it is indeed true that in a marital union you become as one flesh, then disrespecting yourself is disrespecting your spouse.”
― Criss Jami

“Let age be your motivator, not your excuse.”
― Nate Hamon

“I think healthy user bias is also the single biggest confounder in the exercise epideminology literature.
Healthy people tend to do more exercise in part because they are healthy.”
― Peter Attia MD

“One of the most remarkable aspects of awe is its ability to help us feel more connected to others.
Find a place where you can be alone and then use the A.W.E. Method while thinking of a person who has been most dear to you in your life. They may be living or passed away.
Take time to create a clear picture of that person, maybe a particular memory or scene that captures their essence.
Hold the image in your mind, give it your full attention.
Wait the length of a full inhalation or maybe more than one, while you take time to appreciate this person. Imagine looking into their eyes.
Consider what they mean to you, what you learned from them or how you grew as a result of knowing them.
We can be in the moment while remembering. While you remember and feel, just remember and feel.
Then, when you're ready, exhale fully and allow yourself a moment of awe.”
― Jake Eagle LPC, The Power of Awe: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose―In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day

“We go after what we need to feel safe and secure, stimulated, alive, and at peace. That’s just being human. Sometimes we use methods that aren’t so healthy—and then those methods become habits. But if we tune in to what we’re aching for, we can find ways to fill those gaps in healthier, more productive ways.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer

“The linchpin for successful change is in the reward. The reward for a new routine has to be pleasurable, and it has to be quick. If the payoff takes too long to arrive or doesn’t feel good, odds are you won’t stick with it.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer

“The concept of a best self is dubious. Best implies a definitive conclusion, but we are not static creatures. We can’t achieve a state of perfection, nor should we strive to. We are spectacularly volatile, adaptable, highly attuned organisms—and what we need and want changes over time.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Physical disobedience is about defying not only external forces but our own physical and emotional pain by meeting them with repetitive acts of healing.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist

“We can't be grounded in the world if we aren't grounded in our bodies.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist

“By moving, we are waking our bodies up, not making them surrender.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist

“Skinny doesn’t make for happy, folks. The big, elusive promise of achieving some kind of skin-and-bones victory over ourselves is a lie.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist

“Truth on social media can offer hope in tragedy. It can also offer solace for a plethora of quiet insecurities that plague our daily lives, the ones that hover in our minds but go unspoken,”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist

“A lifetime spent merely enduring your body squanders your power and forfeits your capacity for contentment. ”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist

“The term -stress- is almost always used to refer to a negative stimulus but increases in cortisol also occur during positive and beneficial experiences, such as mating and exercise. Cortisol serves other functions across the soma, including in energy metabolism. Therefore, accurately interpreting changes in cortisol levels requiere knowledge of context, perception and activity levels.”
― Kimberly A. Plomp, Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

“Good for the mind, but bad for the posture.'

'Good thing you have Varian to exercise with.'

Amren laughed, the sound like a crow's caw. 'Good thing indeed.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight

“According to the study, “Better Together: The Impact of Exercising with a Romantic Partner,” exercising with a romantic partner makes you more successful at the activity.
If you struggle to stick to a workout routine or get in shape, exercising with a loved one can help.”
― Jaslin & Yusuf Varzideh, Learn to Love: A Couple's Guide to a Healthy Relationship: How to Cultivate Intimacy, Enhance Passion, Strengthen Commitment, and Improve Communication While Resolving Conflict With Your Partner

“Most people are eating too much and exercising too little. If you cannot get the food down, then the exercise must go up.”
― Steven Magee

“I am not happy with a workout unless is drenches me in sweat. Sweat detoxes the body.”
― Steven Magee

“We need broader mood literacy and an awareness of tools that interrupt low mood states before they morph into longer and more severe ones. These tools include altering how we think, the events around us, our relationships, and conditions in our bodies (by exercise, medication, or diet).”
― Jonathan Rottenberg, The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

“There is also clear evidence that the most protective weight for health purposes is a BMI of 27.5 (if one accepts the BMI at all) - a figure that is presently in the recently designated overweight category. Interestingly, overweight people who exercise have a lower mortality rate that thin people who do not. So one is led to wonder why thin has erroneously become the gold standard for health.”
― Susie Orbach, Bodies

“Just like how we choose our thoughts, how we choose to move our bodies matters.”
― Lizzy Cangro, Reclaim the Rebel: 12 Rebellious Acts to Achieve Unconditional Love for Your Body

“Yoga: once an exotic rite for mystics, now a suburban hobby in church halls and gymnasiums. Stretches, belly breaths and chants. Ancient (and awkward) poses with odd animal names, enjoyed by Lycra-clad mothers and post-matcha tea hipsters alike.”
― Damon Young, How to Think More About Exercise

“Not the excuses but exercises build the body.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Rep By Rep

“In exercise, to grow better, focus on one set of muscles.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Rep By Rep

“Okay, three lessons for all of us: One, if you're an old girl, don't go into a new sport or training activity at full bore. Let your muscles get used to it, even if you're in decent shape. Two, do some cross-training as a regular part of your routine, so you'll have some range and flexibility. Three, when you pop that kedging anchor into the ocean, let go before it hits the water or it will pull you to the bottom.”
― Chris Cowley & Henry S. Lodge, MD

“Dull repetition is the rust of sacred verses; lack of repair is the rust of houses; want of healthy exercise is the rust of beauty; unwatchfulness is the rust of the watcher.”
― The Buddha, The Dhammapada

“Show business and politics, being run by practical, cigar-smoking businessmen, manufacture personalities on an assembly line. Baseball, fighting for its life, has been stifling them as fast as they appear.
What makes it so sad is that the athlete has a role in our society that reaches even beyond showmanship. The athlete is one of the last symbols of that superfluity of our society, the physical man. The average man finds that although the instincts of his primitive forebears may beat a tomtom in his blood, his own daily conflict has been reduced to the drive downtown, the paper work in the office, the return trip. The conflict is undefined, the enemy is indistinct, the battle remains permanently unsettled. He doesn't really know whether he has won or lost; there is only the vague feeling that he is somehow losing.”
― Bill Veeck, The Hustler's Handbook

“If you don't make time for exercise, you will probably have to make time for illness.”
― Robin S. Sharma

“The exercise of faith is to risk moving beyond the logic of men and in doing so realizing that the real risk would have been not to move.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Nobody received creatine through the placenta; nobody was breastfed whey protein; you can always work out and become stronger than you currently are.”
― Paul Uponi, Muscular Christianity: A Case for Spiritual and Physical Fitness