When you start exercising, it can sometimes be difficult to stay consistent because it’s hard to get fit, and not everyone enjoys going to the gym. Some people struggle to motivate themselves to exercise and use fitness quotes to help them stay motivated and consistent. I have nothing against fitness quotes, and if they help you stay motivated, then you should use them, but I have never been a fan of them. I don’t like most fitness quotes because they either scream vanity or are cheesy and will not give me more motivation to do my workout. Some fitness quotes can be harmful because they are all about vanity and do nothing other than feed into someone’s body dysmorphia. Fitness quotes sometimes promote harmful messages and make people think that exercise is all about the way your body looks, when in reality, it’s so much more than that. What fitness phrases can I not stand? In this post, I am going to talk about a few fitness phrases that we need to stop using because they are harmful.
No pain no gain- Exercise should give you some level of discomfort because if you are pushing yourself, it’s not going to be easy, and sometimes people will say “no pain, no gain.” It is true that exercise should be hard because change doesn’t happen if you don’t push yourself, but having a no pain, no gain mindset can be dangerous. I don’t like the no pain, no gain mindset to fitness because it encourages people to not listen to their bodies and to push through pain. You don’t have to be experiencing an incredible amount of pain for your workout to be effective, and it’s important to know your limits. There are two types of pain when it comes to exercise: pain that it is working and pain that you aren’t doing something correctly and should stop. You should always listen to your body when you are exercising to avoid injury, but you won’t be if you have a no pain, no gain mindset to fitness.
Train insane or remain the same- Exercise should be hard, but you don’t have to be doing high-intensity workouts six days a week to see fitness results, and some people may not be able to do that. I hate the quote “train insane or remain the same” because it goes with the belief that you have to be pushing yourself hard to see results. You should be pushing yourself during exercise, but you don’t need to push yourself so hard that you can’t move the next day to see results. High-intensity workouts burn more calories, but low-impact ones are also very effective because you can change your body without training like an athlete. I think that the “train insane or remain the same” mindset can be harmful for someone who is new to fitness, who may not like to exercise, because it makes people believe that you are not going to see results unless you are training like a beast. Intensity matters when it comes to exercise, but you don’t need to be doing ridiculously hard workouts to see results, and for some people, that might not be very smart.
There are no excuses to skip the gym- Fitness enthusiasts sometimes make people feel bad about skipping the gym by telling them that there are no excuses not to exercise. There are a lot of reasons why someone may not be able to exercise, such as pain, illness, and some careers may require you to work more, so you don’t have as much time to go to the gym. I personally would rather my surgeon prioritize sleep before doing a surgery of mine than wake up an hour to two earlier to get their workout in. If you have the flu and are running a high fever, it might not be a good idea to sweat at the gym, and it could make you sicker by doing so. There are a lot of legitimate excuses for skipping the gym, and we need to stop making people feel bad for not being able to exercise today, because not everyone skips the gym out of laziness. There are a lot of days when I can’t exercise because of increased pain, and if I were to force myself to exercise, I would make my pain worse. You should not make people feel guilty for needing a rest day because they are important for your fitness progress.
Train like a beast, look like a beauty– When I was struggling with having a healthy relationship with exercise, I used to like the quote ” train like a beast, look like a beauty” because I was using exercise as a form of body control and thought doing more exercise made you more beautiful. Now that I have a healthy relationship with exercise, I don’t like this quote because it implies that you aren’t beautiful unless you are going super hard at the gym. You are beautiful regardless of whether you exercised or not and training harder does not make you more beautiful.
When it comes to fitness, there are a lot of quotes that can help some people stay motivated, and there is nothing wrong with using them if you need a little extra motivation. Fitness quotes have never been for me personally, because they are either cheesy or promote messages that I don’t want to advertise. Exercise should be about improving your health, but it’s not about that when we are promoting quotes that are strictly out of vanity. Exercise should be a form of self-care, and you should exercise because you love your body, not because you hate it. These are fitness phrases that I personally do not like, but it is okay if you disagree with me, and I am only sharing my personal opinion. The most important thing is that you do whatever it takes to be consistent with your fitness, and it’s okay if you need fitness quotes to do that. What fitness phrases do you not like? If you liked this post, please leave a comment below and share your least favorite fitness quotes.
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