Exercise Quotes

“Consider meditation, exercise, and forgiveness to bring your impulses, emotions, and movements under your control.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“When we are active, we become stronger and more energetic. This, in turn, makes us more positive and self-confident. It’s a powerful cycle.”
― Ernest Cadorin, The Arrows of Zen

“Life is healthy, but lifestyle makes it unhealthy.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“I started running to escape the memories that drinking couldn't cover up”
― Dean Karnazes

“He has so little energy in his body that he can only walk to the bathroom on the other side of the hallway twice a day.

After a few meters he is worn out, much worse than after the marathons he used to run. He was a triathlete, he earned a brown belt in judo, became Dutch champion in hockey, until he contracted pneumonia in 2005 and never recovered. Ever since, he has a headache, vertigo, and insomnia, but worst of all the fatigue: after minimal effort his muscles would lose all their strength and take days to recover. Only after a few years did he get a diagnosis: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).”
― Ellen de Visser

“On 13th December 1988 Brynmor John MP died from ME/CFS. His experience of the illness was all too familiar:
‘Though there is only a slight gradient from our house to the main road, it could have been the North face of the Eiger. I just could not get up it’.
He found himself unable to dress; the slightest exertion exhausted him and it took days to regain his strength. He was irritated by the profusion of psychiatric comment and was trying to ensure better understanding of ME/CFS (Perspectives, Summer 1991:28‐30).
Brynmor John suddenly collapsed and died as he was leaving the House of Commons gym after having been advised to exercise back to fitness.”
― Malcolm Hopper

“I would rather be unhappy than be the kind of person who keeps an exercise journal.”
― Anelise Chen, So Many Olympic Exertions

“Practice places mind in your muscles.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The claim that patients can recover [from ME/CFS] as a result of CBT and GET is not justified by the data, and is highly misleading to clinicians and patients considering these treatments.”
― Carolyn Wiltshire

“...patient evidence has repeatedly found that cognitive behaviour therapy is ineffective and graded exercise therapy can make the condition worse.”
― Charles Shepherd

“Mark Vink is a physician in the Netherlands who suddenly fell ill with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). He wasn’t just your typical physician; he also happened to have a brown belt in judo, was the former captain of a Dutch national field hockey championship team and was a marathoner and triathlete.
In other words, the guy was a stud who loved to test himself physically – the last person anyone would ever expect to get ME/CFS. Or end up bed bound. Or end up using a six yard tramp from his bed to the bathroom to test his exercise capacity.

But that’s what happened. Mark Vink’s ME/CFS story – like many stories – is so striking in its suddenness and so devastating in its comprehensive that it beggars the mind to think that anyone could believe his downfall could have other than a physiological cause.”
― Cort Johnson

“As a physician bedridden with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) for more than a decade who is totally dependent on others, all thanks to a major relapse caused by GET, I am in a unique position to answer how harmful GET and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) really are. The basis of these therapies is false illness beliefs, meaning that it is all in the mind. These beliefs ignore all of the evidence that ME is a physical disease, such as intracellular immune dysfunctions, which not only restrict exercise capacity but also worsen with exercise (2).”
― Maik Speedy

“The activity which seems unthinkable today can become your warm-up in the future!”
― Francis Shenstone, The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way

“The recommendation of graded exercise has caused untold physical damage to thousands of people. In fact, a 2018 survey found that 89% of ME sufferers experienced worsened symptoms after increasing activity. If graded exercise were a drug, it would have lost its licence.”
― Carol Monaghan

“You don’t recover by stopping the old, but by starting the new. You’ll go back to your old ways unless you create new ways.”
― Toni Sorenson

“Nothing cures depression like a quality jerk-off session in the bathtub, followed by a jog around the block.”
― Trevor Carss

“...exercise has not been shown to produce a long term cure for ME/CFS and studies have not shown that exercise reverses the pathophysiological changes found in this illness...

...for many patients, adding an injudicious exercise program has caused post exertional malaise and deterioration of function”
― Fred Friedberg

“Activities of daily living utilize energy and are in themselves, exercise. These activities may constitute an optimum amount of exercise for some patients or an excessive amount of exercise for others while for some patients, adding a suitable exercise program (exercise therapy) can improve function and quality of life.”
― Fred Friedberg

“Studies are showing that regular aerobic exercise can lift your mood, increase serotonin levels, relieve stress, and help you to sleep better. Swimming, dancing, biking, running, and even walking are excellent examples. Pick something you love and will be excited to do. Pick something you can incorporate into your lifestyle and schedule. Make regular exercise a habit.”
― Akiroq Brost

“Exercise your mind the same as you would exercise your body. Practice healthy mental habits that will help you, empower you, and improve your perspectives. Practice them daily.”
― Akiroq Brost

“The severe exacerbation of symptoms following exercise, as seen in CFS patients, is not present in other disorders where fatigue is a predominant symptom such as depression, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, or multiple sclerosis. 10,11”
― Jo Nijs

“The largest and most recent ME Association survey (ME Association, 2015) of patient evidence on the acceptability, efficacy and safety of CBT, GET and Pacing involved 1428 respondents. In this case, 73 per cent of respondents reported that CBT had no effect on their symptoms and 74 per cent reported that their symptoms were made worse by GET.”
― Charles Shepherd

“Don't fight your biology. Get out of your own way and make all your activity align with the same goal. Once you've achieved that goal - then you can pivot and work toward something else.”
― K Black, Tactical Barbell: Mass Protocol

“After a patient of his with pneumonia coughed in his face, Vink’s energy and endurance quickly tanked. He estimated that from one day to the next he lost 70-80% of the power in his legs. Very quickly this former marathoner was unable to walk 30 yards without having to rest for 15 minutes. He also experienced severe dizziness, headaches (for the first time in his life) and problems sleeping. Graded exercise therapy (GET) caused him to relapse further and he ended up bedridden.”
― Cort Johnson

“My very high lactate levels after this trivial walk also show that this trivial walk is very strenuous exercise for me which I have been doing twice a day for a number of years and if exercise would really be the answer to this disease, on the one hand I would not have fallen ill with this disease and on the other I would have long exercised myself back to full fitness as my very high lactate levels show that I do my upmost.”
― Mark Vink

“The study by Falk Hvidberg et al. [69] confirms the findings from the health status report by Komaroffet al. from 1996 [70]. It also means that nothing has changed in the health situation of ME/CFS patients in the last 20 years and that means that the current 2 available treatments, CBT and GET, which have been heavily promoted for more than 20 years as the treatments for ME/ CFS, which most ME patients have tried, because they desperately want to get better, are not effective at all, or even harmful, as patients have been saying for a long time [32] which was confirmed and objectified by Black et al. [31].”
― Mark Vink

“It is impossible to become the best version of yourself if you do not read, exercise, and meditate.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Left right left right left
Exercise is good I think while
Sitting on the treadmill”
― Richard L. Ratliff

“Many who were able to walk when they embarked on a course of graded exercise dropped out of the treatment in wheelchairs or bedbound.”
― Carol Monaghan

“One little run. One little walk. That's all it takes, and you're right back there. You haven't got lost. It hasn't gone away. It's all there just waiting for you, whenever you're ready to grab it.”
― Anna Kessel, Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives