Exercise for the joy of feeling good and getting better. Eat right with the intention of fueling your body with the things it needs to perform.
Interpretation
Engage in exercise and healthy eating for both enjoyment and improvement in well-being.
This quote emphasizes the importance of exercising not just for aesthetic goals, but for the joy and health benefits it brings. Eating well should also be viewed as a means to nourish the body, enhancing its performance and overall quality of life.
In practice
During a fitness workshop, I shared this quote to inspire attendees to view exercise as a joyful activity rather than a chore.
Bad habits are easy and discipline is hard-and βeasyβ is where people gravitate. A good work ethic requires a painstaking daily effort. Easy typically leads to a life long list of problems but the discipline of having a plan leads to an extraordinary rewarding life. In the long run, the easy way makes life harder and the harder way makes life easier.
Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.
Running is a basic ingredient for your health, just as much as eating and sleeping, but going out for a run by yourself and taking a moment to think also creates a certain peace.
The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It's almost certain that all those years of nicotine inhalation were a major contributor to his clogged arteries.
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
If you take a reasonable amount of vitamin C regularly, the incidence of the common cold goes down. If you get a cold and start immediately, as soon as you start sneezing and sniffling, the cold just doesn't get going.
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