Fitness Quotes

Positive energy is your priceless life force. Protect it. Don't allow people to draw from your reserves; select friends who recharge your energies . . . I'm not asking you to cut people out of your life, but I am asking you to invest your time with people who will push you to be your best. Winners love to see other people win.

~ Chalene Johnson

Treat yourself like a fat person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck--you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.

~ Chalene Johnson

Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be *more* successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

~ Chalene Johnson

After a few months of talking with people and observing them, I realized that the traits of the successful fitness enthusiasts had everything in common with those of the high achievers I had spent years studying in business.

~ Chalene Johnson

Treat yourself like a fast person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck--you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one. --Push: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, p. 214

~ Chalene Johnson

I’m creating a self help show called Self Talk. I’ll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law.

~ Ryan Lilly

Choose the body to live in.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can do this (this thing, where your body will cease to produce hormones and your skin, hair, muscles and bones... basically every part of you will notice, go into withdrawals, and stage a coup). Be prepared for this mentally, and you'll own this thing.

~ Lisa Jey Davis

If you knew what lies ahead on the path, it would not be an adventure, now would it?

~ Toni Sorenson

The grass is not 'greener' on the other side – it is just another shade of green.

~ Annika Sorensen

Feeling good about yourself is the best sleeping pill of all.

~ Annika Sorensen

We must dare to be true to ourselves – to see ourselves as we really are.

~ Annika Sorensen

It is fine to be committed to work, but our minds need time to recover and our bodies need to move.

~ Annika Sorensen

By simply braking down the task into more manageable pieces much can be accomplished in a year.

~ Annika Sorensen

You can live in the body you wish, exercise daily.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sports teach us the value of facing yourself and others honestly. You can only grow if you let go of denial and embrace what is real and true.

~ Corey Irwin

You see, most people gain weight because they give into cravings. But when you easily (and without feeling like you're depriving yourself) gain control, the extra weight comes off.

~ Josh Bezoni

Variety in your diet is health in your life.

~ Toni Sorenson

The Warrior's Diet Three Rules of Eating:Rule #1: Always start with subtle-tasting foods and move to the moreaggressive foods.Rule #2: Include as many tastes, textures, colors, and aromas as possible in your main meal.Rule #3: Stop eating when you feel much more thirsty than hungry.

~ Ori Hofmekler

I’m a big believer in cooking your own meals. It makes it much easier not only to ensure that you eat fresh foods but also to follow the second rule of eating (see previous chapter), which advises incorporating as many colors, tastes, textures, and aromas as possible into one’s meal. Beyond those benefits, I feel that cooking celebrates self-respect, and it’s especially important on the Warrior Diet. Through cooking, you can control exactly what you put inside your body. It’s a creative process, where you use trial and error to determine what you like.You can use different herbs and spices to increase or balance flavors, aromas, and textures.You’re not a scavenger on the Warrior Diet.

~ Ori Hofmekler

I strongly believe that a very good way to start on the Warrior Diet is by following the diet elements first. This alone will probably do the job. Moreover, it may stimulate even sedentary people to begin some kind of physical activity, due to all the extra energy people generally feel when they become warriors.

~ Ori Hofmekler

Well, Kessa, I am glad to see that you're taking your body seriously. I shudder when I see the girls leaving class and heading for the nearest hamburger, coke, and French fry station.The thought of them pouring all those dead calories into themselves makes me want to cry. You'd think after a rigorous dance class they'd have more respect for their bodies.

~ Steven Levenkron

Getting fit is all about mind over matter. I don't mind, so it doesn't matter.

~ Adam Hargreaves

We are going to change the way young people think about fitness.

~ Gheorghe Muresan

Don't look around for the path you are meant to follow, forge it yourself.

~ Toni Sorenson

There’s almost no evidence in literature to suggest that resistance training alters energy expenditure outside of the exercise session, significant enough to induce weight / fat /inches loss. This is especially true in younger men, or in women across all age groups. And as such, the notion that resistance training causes weight / fat / inches loss appears to be a myth and is perhaps the best kept secret in the fitness industrial complex!

~ Dr Deepak Hiwale

Somehow I find the energy to continue the run. Part of the high that comes after finishing a long run is overcoming the wall, that point when your body crashes but your mind keeps moving you forward.

~ Shannon Mullen

McKusick's belief in this paradigm-the focus on disability rather than abnormalcy-was actualized in the treatment of patients in his clinic. Patients with dwarfism, for instance, were treated by an interdisciplinary team of genetic counselors, neurologists, orthopedic surgeons, nurses, and psychiatrists trained to focus on specific disabilities of persons with short stature. Surgical interventions were reserved to correct specific deformities as they arose. The goal was not to restore normalcy-but vitality, joy, and function. McKusic had rediscovered the founding principles of modern genetics in the realm of human pathology. In humans as in wild flies, genetic variations abounded. Here too genetic variants, environments, and gene-environment interactions ultimately collaborated to cause phenotypes-except in this case, the phenotype in question was disease. Here too some genes had partial penetrance and widely variable expressivity. One gene could cause many diseases, and one disease could be caused by many genes. And here too fitness could not be judged in absolutes. Rather the lack of fitness-illness [italicized, sic] in colloquial terms- was defined by the relative mismatch between an organism and environment.

~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Fitness is never really about what you lose, it's about all that you gain.

~ Toni Sorenson

We don’t have to be fast, we simply have to be steady and move in the right direction. Direction is always going to trump speed.

~ Toni Sorenson

Genes are overrated...Genes never helped anybody pick the right foods or hit the gym floor at 6 am. Its you as a person, its always been YOU!

~ Dr Deepak Hiwale

We are the custodians of our bodies. We must take action to employ healthy lifestyle habits to prevent, reduce, and/or manage disease and illness.

~ Bridgette L. Collins

People who work out are so gullible. They think they'll live longer. Well, good luck to them. It's a shame most of them aren't bright enough to realise that the extra time added to their life when they're eighty and too old to do anything productive with it is roughly equal to all the time wasted in the gym when they're young and capable of having fun.

~ Toni Jordan

The aim of the taper is to minimise accumulated fatigue and fill up the fuel stores to arrive at the start line fresh.

~ Dan Golding

As your training moves from base training to more intense work, to tapering, your nutrition needs to change.

~ Charlotte Campbell

Set your mind first and your body will follow.

~ Toni Sorenson

Don't get hooked on taking identity in illness and diagnosis, there is only a body in balance or a body out of balance. Get your body balanced.

~ Nina Leavins

We are all bodybuilders, so build the house you want to live in.

~ Rodney Page

A healthy body is a platform for flourishing a healthy mind.

~ Pawan Mishra

The Self Care Formula is simple-NITO(5R). Nutrients In & Toxins Out in the 5 Realms (Mental, Emotional, Physical, Environmental, Spiritual).

~ Nina Leavins