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

“We hated the gym. We loved it. We escaped to it. We avoided it. We had complicated relationships with our bodies, while at the same time insisting that we loved them unconditionally. We were sure we had better, more important things to do than worry about them, but the slender yoga bodies of moms in Lululemon at school pickup taunted us. Their figures hinted at wheatgrass shots, tennis clubs, and vagina steaming treatments. We found them aspirational.
So we sweated on the elliptical and lifted ten-pound weights, inching closer to the bodies we told ourselves we were too evolved to want.”
― Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

“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

“The biology of emotional freedom depends on getting your endorphins flowing and turning off your stress hormones. How you achieve this? Laughter, exercise, meditation and doing anything that makes you loved.”
― judith orloff, Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

“Gold had discovered, since starting to exercise strenuously several years before, that he was able to make love with greater vitality, stamina, and self-control than formerly, and with much less pleasure.”
― Joseph Heller, Good As Gold

“Form and technique first, reps and weight second.”
― Taco Fleur, Kettlebell Training Fundamentals: Achieve Pain-Free Kettlebell Training and Lay a Strong Solid Foundation to Become PRO

“The secret to youthful looks: Water, exercise & sleep, don't let stress consume you, inner peace, fuck the person you love a lot.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Always warm up to exercising. You can't suddenly jolt a stiff body into a rigorous workout. My doctor has told me that the best time to exercise is at the end of the day, before dinner, when the body is limber and a little fatigued. Begin slowly by swinging arms around in a circle. Do a little jogging in place. Get your circulation going to fuel your muscles. Do your exercises to music. […] As your body gets used to all this unexpected activity you can do each exercise just about as often and as long as you like. But start gently.”
― Joan Crawford, My Way of Life

“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

“When I started displaying a dementia like illness, I began developing quotes to exercise my damaged brain.”
― Steven Magee

“Writing quotes is physiotherapy for the brain.”
― Steven Magee

“Create strength so you don't need support. Don't use support so you can become strong.”
― Taco Fleur, Kettlebell Workouts and Challenges 1 (updated 2022): The best kettlebell workouts for beginners to advanced

“think it's doing yourself a lot of good to go out and exercise on these hazy days? think again. you might as well sit down... and smoke a pack of Marlboro cigarettes.”
― Dane Wigington

“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

“The process of mindfully shifting your attention among inputs may offer you mood benefits, in addition to the mood lift that exercise itself will bring you. Shifting attention in this way may well strengthen the part of your brain that acts to dampen down the ruminations that occur during depression. Shifting attention also makes you able to enjoy richer experiences. You can't lose—whether it is a useful brain exercise for fighting the ruminations of depression or simply a way to drink in joy while exerting yourself, guiding your attention mindfully has its benefits.”
― Michael W. Otto, Exercise for Mood and Anxiety: Proven Strategies for Overcoming Depression and Enhancing Well-Being

“Fast is necessary when you wish to shed fat.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Many scholars say that 'enlightenment' does not exist and it can never be achieved by meditation. In my eyes, meditation is the key to 'feel' or, as they popularly say, 'achieve' enlightenment. Since physical exercise helps to maintain a healthy body, similarly meditation helps to maintain a healthy mind. So, if the mind is healthy or sound, then it can surely do wonders!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“অনেক পণ্ডিতগণ বলেন যে ‘বোধোদয়��-এর অস্তিত্ব নে�� এব�� এট�� কখনো�� ধ্যা��-এর মাধ্যম�� অর্জ�� কর�� যাবে না�� আমার দৃষ্টিতে ধ্যা�� হচ্ছ�� বোধোদয় ‘অনুভব�� করার বা, জনপ্রিয়ভাব�� যেটা বল�� হয়, ‘অর্জন�� করার চাবিকাঠি�� যেহেতু শারীরি�� ব্যায়া�� সুস্�� দে�� বজায় রাখত�� সাহায্�� কর��, একইভাব�� ধ্যা�� একটি সুস্�� মন বজায় রাখত�� সাহায্�� করে। তা��, মন যদ�� সুস্�� হয়, তাহল�� অবশ্যই এট�� আশ্চর্যজনক কা�� করবে!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Changing your mind is a prerogative that is legitimate to exercise.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is a Dance

“It might sound strange but walking back and forth to the toilet is more difficult than running a marathon. However if you see my lactate levels of 8.0 mmol/l around the 5 minute mark, and 11.8 mmol/l around the 30 minutes mark, both produced by the same exercise, it means that the actual lactate production for this very trivial exercise is 19.8 mmol/l. That is a level that many professional athletes will never / not often reach and that sort of level of lactate makes it easy to understand why this trivial walk is so strenuous an exercise for me and more difficult than running a marathon. And it is therefore no wonder that I have severe loss of muscle power combined with severe muscle pain from this trivial walk to the toilet and back.”
― Mark Vink

“Right Practice Makes Man Perfect”
― StudioGym

“Whenever I have to pick something off the floor I bend down, keeping my legs straight. Dutifully touching your toes fifty times every day is a crashing bore. But there are almost as many times when something has to be picked up anyhow �� or a lower drawer has to be opened �� so I automatically do it in a manner that keeps me fit. I try to make a graceful gesture out of reaching for things on high shelves, too. I don’t make it easier by dragging out a little step stool.”
― Joan Crawford, My Way of Life

“Whenever I have to pick something off the floor I bend down, keeping my legs straight. Dutifully touching your toes fifty times every day is a crashing bore. But there are almost as many times when something has to be picked up anyhow �� or a lower drawer has to be opened �� so I automatically do it in a manner that keeps me fit. I try to make a graceful gesture out of reaching for things on high shelves, too. I don’t make it easier by dragging out a little step stool.

While I’m on the phone I take a small bottle �� a Pepsi bottle, of course �� and roll it back and forth under my instep. I touch first the heel to the floor, then the toe, ten times for each foot. [...] These exercises strengthen the foot, stretch the calf muscles, and result in lovely feet and legs.

When I’m standing �� scraping carrots, or just waiting somewhere �� I dig my heels into the ground, draw myself up to my best posture, and pull my stomach muscles in hard.
[...]
When I’m dictating to my secretary I may raise my elbows level with my shoulders and press the heels of my hands hard against each other. (The whole idea behind isometrics is to make the muscles work against each other.) This exercise, lasting for just six to ten seconds, is wonderful for the inside of the upper arms �� the place that can go flabby almost overnight and make it impossible to wear sleeveless dresses.
For the backs of the upper arms, do the same exercise with the hands raised just above the level of the forehead.”
― Joan Crawford, My Way of Life

“You're on your feet. Maybe you're phoning, or combing your hair, or taking off your makeup. Plant your bare feet about twelve inches apart and grip the floor with them, keeping your knees rigid. Then try to push your feet together - but without letting them budge. Try as hard as you can. This is a wonderful example of getting muscles to work against each other and it's a tremendous thing for the inner thighs - they are another terribly flab-prone area.”
― Joan Crawford, My Way of Life