Motivational Quotes For Exercise
Want to make a positive change in your health? You need motivational quotes for exercise!
Regular exercise is great for so many reasons. Besides the obvious fact that exercise will improve your body, did you know that it is clinically proven to be a better anti-depressant than any drug on the market?
I know it can be hard to get started with exercise, so I will share with you an excerpt from my book The Ten Commandments For Natural Weight Loss...
Life is motion, motion is life
That’s right; the entire universe is in constant motion. Every atom and every subatomic particle that makes up your body, the air you breathe, even the floor underneath you is in a state of constant motion. Even the atoms that make up rocks or pieces of metal vibrate on the atomic level. So it makes sense that we are made to move. My motivational quotes for exercise should help get you going!
I see patients every day that I plead with to start an exercise program. They give me plenty of bad excuses in the beginning; no energy to exercise, no time to exercise, they have no gym membership, and spouses do not or will not exercise with them and so on. The truth is you can really apply physics to beginning an exercise routine. The Law of Inertia states that an object at rest tends to remain at rest and an object in motion tends to remain in motion unless it is acted on by another force. Or in the case of humans; an object on the couch tends to stay on the couch with a remote control in hand and an object that gets up and starts moving tends to stay moving because it feels good!
Motivational Quotes For Exercise can help you to begin an exercise program. Once you begin an exercise routine you shatter the laws of physics. You begin to actually create more energy. You feel vibrant and more alive the more you do it. Even in my own life sometimes I don’t feel like going to the gym on a certain day. I say to myself that I am too tired or too sore, but after my workout I feel 100 times better than when I walked in the door!
There are a few reasons that this magical process occurs. One is that when you exercise it moves waste products out of the body by means of stimulating the movement of lymphatic fluid (a waste removing system in the body that is stimulated by muscular contraction) and sweating out waste products through the skin. It also causes release of endorphins, the natural pain killers of the body. Another benefit is it raises metabolism or turns up that furnace of activity inside the body. These things together give a feeling of euphoria after exercise that sure feels better than before you started. Exercise also promotes better sleep and sleep is when your body recovery really kicks into overdrive. You will move towards having more energy all of the time. Then you will need to review the motivational quotes for exercise on a more limited basis!
I will admit that the hardest part of any exercise program is getting started.That is why I offer motivational quotes for exercise. Before you begin you are an object at rest. There are many reasons why your body tells you not to exercise, to remain an object at rest. When you are a couch spud, your body’s metabolism begins a process of slowing down. It burns less and less calories. The body moves into a state of virtual hibernation that is not much different than any other animal that does so. You sleep more, store more calories as fat for energy, and have a tendency to remain on the couch more and more.
I don’t have a problem with someone vegetating on the couch once in a while, but some people actually get so far along into this state of hibernation that their lives revolve around it. I have known people who would be on the couch nearly 100% of the time that they were home! Even a bear does not hibernate for their whole life!
Another reason it is hard to get off the couch is the foods you consume while you are there. Does anyone in America become a couch potato eating fresh fruits and vegetables? This problem goes back to the issue of blood sugar. When you eat the traditional couch potato foods such as pop and potato chips, your blood sugar rises very quickly then you crash into a state of hypoglycemia. Then to feel better you eat more and the calories store as fat and so on.
The last reason people stay on the couch is because their rituals of eating and not exercising has led them to being overweight to the point where exercise is uncomfortable. This is awful because it gives them a real reason not to exercise. Pain is a BIG deterrent for anything in life. From the first time you touched a hot stove you learn to avoid pain like the plague. As you can see the problems facing the couch potato build on each other. This case however is not hopeless. We must create a level of pain in our minds associated with not exercising that surpasses the level of pain associated with getting off the couch. The best way to do this is what I call the ten year test.
Take a moment and visualize yourself ten years from now. If you are not happy with your current level of health and you continue doing what you are doing now, picture yourself more overweight and less energetic. With the slowing of the metabolism and hormone production associated with aging, lack of activity and a poor diet, this is what you will get. Now picture all of time you wasted, all of the things you wanted to do with your life that you did not do because you were on the couch or in front of the computer. Plus the possibility of the pain of arthritis, diabetes, and your risk of dying from a heart attack is severely escalated. This condition also produces a large amount of stress as your poor physical health makes you less capable of dealing with the mental stress of everyday life. This picture is realized by most Americans as they get older. It is not a fairy tale gone wrong. This is how most people in this country decline. Arthritis, cancer, heart disease and diabetes don’t just strike all at once. They are due to a lifetime of bad health choices. My prescription is to read some good motivational quotes for exercise and get moving!
I will now take you through my sure fire technique to awaken this hibernating beast and reintroduce him or her to the outside world. First of all, this beast is usually cranky and even downright mean when disturbed. It is better to make this a gradual process rather than just forcing the bear out of the cave one day kicking and growling. The first serious change that needs to be made is the diet. Motivational quotes for exercise are good but you might want to focus on diet as well. Only feed the bear good food that builds energy. Fresh fruits and vegetables are a good choice. Avoid starchy foods at all costs, pasta, bread, and rice, and throw all of the pop away. A healthy bear does not drink pop of any kind. He or she can drink anything else that they want as long as it is water. They must eat frequent, small meals to fire up there metabolic furnace after a long period of sleep. You can liken this to throwing small pieces of wood into a fire. It might not burn as long as a large log, but it will burn hotter. The next step, and mind you this is only performed after the bear is alert and aware, is to get them off the couch.
This does not mean that they are ready to chase down a small animal for a meal, but just walk them around. Walking is a great form of exercise for anyone, from the bear who just left the cave to the alpha male, or female, in the prime of their life. Walking burns fat calories very efficiently, even better than jogging because it goes straight to the fat stores for energy. High intensity exercise such as jogging or running must first tap the glycogen stores of the body before they will burn fat. Walking with little weights in the hands is a good beginning resistance exercise that will also stimulate the metabolism of the body to increase for days after it is completed, which burns even more calories in the long run. Walking is also is easy on the joints, reducing the risk of pain afterwards. Swimming is also a great exercise for the beginning exerciser because it gets all of the muscles moving with less impact to the joints.
Once this process is begun, make sure it continues for at least 30 days as it will become a habit. We all know that bears are creatures of habit. Studies show that if we do something every day for 30 days it is then installed and hard to remove from the daily routine. Remember that diet is of great importance in this process as foods that are dense in nutrients and less processed help to keep the body energized will help the animal stay on their routine. Thirty days is all it takes to start your way to a better lifestyle. I hope this provides good motivation for exercise!
Motivational Quotes For Exercise
"It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor." -Marcus Tullius Cicero
"A person's health can be judged by which they takes two at a time - pills or stairs." -Joan Welsh
"Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends." –Thomas Jefferson
"Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness." -Edward Stanley
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." –Paul Dudley White
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." -Beverly Sills
"You can never grow inside your comfort zone." Dr. Bryan Schuetz
"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat." -Herschel Walker
"Only those who risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T.S. Eliot
"Nothing will work unless you do." -John Wooden
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