“I stayed really physical during my pregnancy. I stuck to my normal pre-pregnancy workout, minus the stomach exercises and twisting. I really felt it helped my whole well-being.” WellsWholeFeltExerciseNormalStuckWell BeingPregnancyStomachWorkoutMinus Author:Keri Russell
“I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life at 45 ... I didn't know this exercise thing felt so good.” KnowsFeelsFeltExerciseShapes Author:Pamela Anderson
“It was part of the reason I almost didn't go public with my diagnosis - I was embarrassed. I felt, 'Oh, I've always talked about exercising. And I got cancer.' And then I realized it's a great example of showing that cancer can hit anyone at any time.” ReasonFeltExampleExerciseCancerI RealizedEmbarrassedDiagnosis Author:Robin Roberts
“Happiness can seem like an abstract, transcendent notion, but in fact, I found that getting enough sleep (very important!!), getting exercise, not letting myself get too hungry, not letting myself get too cold (I'm a person who is always cold), made a big difference. Partly because I felt happier, partly because feeling physically comfortable makes it easier to keep other difficult happiness-boosting resolutions like biting my tongue.” PersonsMadeImportantEnoughFactsFeelingsBigsSeemsFoundFeltDifficultDifferencesSleepColdEasierExerciseComfortableNotionTongueHungryAbstractResolutionTranscendentBitingEnough Sleep Author:Gretchen Rubin
“I was interested in the kicks and the punches. I felt like I could utilize that in my real life, and not just in fake land. I've always done yoga for my breathing, and hiking for my mind, but I was also exercising, at the same time.” MindRealDoneFeltLandExerciseYogaReal LifeBreathingFakeKicksHiking Author:Zoey Deutch
“I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.” WayFeltRecordsExerciseTraditionalLoadPointless Author:Boy George
“I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the earlier works] were still lingering in my head. I realized there were some pieces where I felt that I had to respond to the criticism.” WorldTryingArtStillsSchoolFeltEmotionPiecesExerciseCriticismI RealizedReleaseArt WorldLingeringGradGrad School Author:Kalup Linzy
“I felt ugly, chubby, and stupid until I talked to my mom about it and she had me do a very good exercise that I recommend to every girl. She had me take a piece of paper and write down everything I liked and everything that I didn't like about my body and my life. By the end of the exercise, I realized that I had so many more things in my likes column. It showed me that while there are a few things in my dislikes column, I was giving ALL my attention to those few things!” GivingWritingEndsBodyGirlFeltAttentionPiecesStupidMomExercisePaperVery GoodUglyMy MomI RealizedLikesDislikeColumnsEvery GirlGood Exercise Author:Coco Rocha
“I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I'm eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.” ThinkingWantYearsPainFeltMy OwnClearExerciseEatingWho I AmAcheConstantly ThinkingAches And PainsEating Right Author:Michelle Obama
“For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.” YearsEnoughFeltFourAirExerciseYears AgoMedicineFour YearsStaminaAsthma Author:Venus Williams
“And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.” LongMadeMightWantedMotherOrderFeltPleasureCreationExerciseSnowSupposed To BePurityGrandmotherConspiracyOppressedAuntSmashing Book:Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.” FeltExerciseIllusionMereDrivenMasteryTidesTrappedLiving ThingsFootprint Book:Lord of the Flies Source: Lord of the Flies