Fitness Quotes

When the body is in trouble, we must find and eliminate the cause, not medicate the symptom

~ Nina Leavins

Optimal nutrition is eating the right things, in the right amounts, at the right time.

~ Siim Land

Motivation may be what starts you off, but it's habit that keeps you going back for more.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Focus on progress, not perfection.

~ Josh Bezoni

Yoga is a lifestyle and not just a mere kind of exercise to stay fit and health. It is a science which unfolds the endless potentials of our mind and soul.

~ Anamika Mishra

You must transform your confidence in order to transform your body.

~ Josh Bezoni

Getting more exercise isn’t only good for your waistline. It's a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood.

~ Auliq Ice

FIT: Overall lean frame gained due to regular planned exercising and balanced diet...having the right metabolism.

~ Deshwal Sachin

Only bacteria thrive and live well in a poorly cared for body.

~ Nina Leavins

If we all started using the Self Care System, there would hardly be need for the Medical System

~ Nina Leavins

The medical system serves a very important purpose for many, but our most common lifestyle diseases are better served with use of the Self Care System.

~ Nina Leavins

The essence of physical education in Naperville 203 is teaching fitness instead of sports. The underlying philosophy is that if physical education class can be used to instruct kids how to monitor and maintain their own health and fitness, then the lessons they learn will serve them for life. And probably a longer and happier life at that. What's being taught, really is a lifestyle. The students are developing healthy habits, skills, and a sense of fun, along with a knowledge of how their bodies work. Naperville's gym teachers are opening up new vistas for their students by exposing them to such a wide range of activities that they can't help but find something they enjoy. They're getting kids hooked on moving instead of sitting in front of the television.

~ John J. Ratey

A sweet life is a sweaty life.

~ Toni Sorenson

Change doesn’t come in nickels and dimes. It comes in dedication and sweat.

~ Toni Sorenson

No one knows your body like you do. Listen to it. It will tell you what to eat, when to drink, how to sleep and which exercises you need to do. Let your own body be your most trusted personal trainer.

~ Toni Sorenson

Training is the word we use now. To train means to teach a particular skill over a period of time. Every time you get up, show up, work out, you are training yourself to be better, to live happier and healthier. Don’t expect results in a snap. Remember, change takes however long it takes.

~ Toni Sorenson

You can’t do it for someone else. No matter how much they motivate or inspire you, you have to do it for yourself. Your health is YOUR responsibility.

~ Toni Sorenson

No matter your reason, if you sacrifice your health, you’re making the wrong choice.

~ Toni Sorenson

When the finish line seems too far away, remember how you felt when you were back at the starting line. Regain that motivation to recharge your momentum.

~ Toni Sorenson

Every time you work out you strengthen your body. Every time you don’t you weaken it.

~ Toni Sorenson

You don’t know all that you can be unless you’ve tried all there is to try. None of us get to do that in this life, so hence the saying, there’s always room for improvement.

~ Toni Sorenson

Sore muscles are nothing compared to the pain of regret.

~ Toni Sorenson

Work out to work up.

~ Toni Sorenson

It’s rare to be depressed and be in prime health. Healthy people tend to be happy people.

~ Toni Sorenson

Not all races are run on a track. And not all finish lines are marked by ticker tape.

~ Toni Sorenson

Exercise feels best after it is finished.

~ Toni Sorenson

The only real insurance you have against disease is a healthy body. Invest wisely, generously and often in that policy.

~ Toni Sorenson

In a group of five workouts, I tend to have one great workout, the kind of workout that makes me think in just a few weeks I could be an Olympic champion, plus maybe Mr. Olympia. Then, I have one workout that’s so awful the mere fact I continue to exist as a somewhat higher form of  life is a miracle. Finally, the other three workouts are the punch-the-clock workouts: I go in, work out, and walk out. Most people experience this.

~ Dan John

If you work and do pure research in this industry as long as I have – and you actually pay attention and do your homework, then this naked and raw truth stands out -> The supplement world of cancer-fighters, CAD-preventers, health-promoters, magic-water – AND/OR - muscle-builders, fat-burners and weight-loss agents – all of them – already have an over-crowded mass grave-yard of previous magic bullets that would supposedly make your life and/or body better – Yes, so promising and heavily promoted “this” era – but so dead and gone the next – leaving in their wake a trail of mass-consumer confusion – but also leaving their actual intention -> a new generation of passive consumers – those who can’t differentiate the sizzle from the steak. Or as W.C. Fields put it so long ago – “There’s a sucker born every minute.” -> There isn’t a supplement on the planet that marks the difference between ‘health or ill-health’ – or between ‘fit or fat.’ - or between ‘results and stagnation.

~ Scott Abel

There is a fairly common pattern in this field where folks go through about three distinct stages. it true of other areas.1. You know that you know nothing: here you pretty much just use someone else's canned workouts since you don't know what you're doing2. You know just enough to be dangerous. This is when everybody starts overcomplicating things. You see these insanely complicated training programs and periodization schemes. Lots of charts, graphs and flowcharts.3. You realize that the above doesn't matter 999 times out of 1000 and you go back to keeping it simple. You realize that hard work on the basics + talent + time > everything else.

~ Lyle Mcdonald

As we’re bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

~ Dan John

Charred, blackened, and cooked, the morsel was brought to the mouth and chewed, contemplated, and swallowed with relish. There was no sauce or seasoning and no consideration for aesthetics or art. Yet the combination of meat and fire yielded something revolutionary. Cooked meat made man happy.

~ Tony Federico

Just as a warrior must anticipate his enemy’s behavior and reactions and understand the dangers, and just as a hunter must know the behavior patterns of animals that he hunts, in order for us to heal, to achieve and maintain a state of mental and physical health,we must be in touch with our body and be aware of the symptoms of illness. Our ability to heal, and the healing process itself, should never be taken for granted. Vanity often keeps us from accepting that we’ll all inevitably face cycles of being weaker and stronger,sicker and healthier.

~ Ori Hofmekler

Rage, recover, repeat.

~ Kyle Barger

With therapeutic Qigong when there is no cure, there is palliation.

~ Chan Siok Fong

I believe that human beings are designed to be physically active and that not doing so creates energy imbalances within the body that ultimately contribute to obesity and other health problems. As evidence, over 500,000 people die each year from diseases linked to physical inactivity and obesity. Furthermore, rates of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, type 2 diabetes, and certain forms of cancer have all tripled over the past 30 years corresponding to decreasing levels of daily physical activity and increasing rates of obesity.

~ Nina Cherie Franklin

You can tell a rider's fitness by the shape of his ass and the veins in his legs.

~ Daniel Coyle Tyler Hamilton

...aim to look good naked...and more often than not, everything will fall in place - fitness, health, you name it!

~ The Fitness Doc

A lot of self-help methods are based on mental discipline or on working through emotional issues. What these approaches lack in an awareness of how the body is an integral part of the equation. The health of your body influences what you experience in your mind. There is no split. If you can engage your whole spirit in the pursuit of fitness--not just your intellect, not just your emotions-- but instead everything inside you that is truly you, you'll discover what it is to be a whole person.

~ David Patchell-Evans

Humans are built to move. We evolved under conditions that required daily intense physical activity, and even among individuals with lower physical potential, that hard-earned genotype is still ours today. The modern sedentary lifestyle leads to the inactivation of the genes related to physical performance, attributes that were once critical for survival and which are still critical for the correct, healthy expression of the genotype. The genes are still there, they just aren't doing anything because the body is not stressed enough to cause a physiological adaptation requiring their activation. The sedentary person's heart, lungs, muscles, bones, nerves and brain all operate far below the level at which they evolved to function, and at which they still function best.

~ Mark Rippetoe