Andrew Weil Quotes

I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.

I started running, and I hated it. Of course, everyone hates running for the first mile. If you're running two miles or twenty miles, it always hurts. Now I live it. I look forward to it. It's really good. It clears my head.

Get a gym membership! If you have a membership, you're bound to go. If you say, like, 'Oh, I'll get it one day,' you're never going to do it.

I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.

The treadmill won't run on its own; you have to put some work into this. If you're going to lose weight, you have to apply yourself.

If you don't want to sweat, stay on the couch.

Few things feel as unbelievably great as working out hard.

The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.

Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.

What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!

Exercise is like meditation for me, and I'm giving myself that time... I can't live without it now.

Exercise can't counteract the damage being done to your body while you continue to smoke. What exercise can do is help you kick the habit.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running.

Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.

Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.

My dance move has seemingly turned into push-ups. Sometimes, especially if I've indulged a little bit in an evening, it's not out of the ordinary to find me, for some reason, doing push-ups. That seems to be my go-to dance move.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.

Running is not just exercise; it is a lifestyle.

For me, exercise is more mental than physical. I crave it for my sanity. Not just the endorphins, but my energy, confidence, and relaxation are all motivated by it.

Every day you've got running shoes on, it's a good day.

A good run adds a little bounce to my step. I get a certain amount of self-esteem from it.

Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.

When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish-as long as your feet keep on moving.