Lift Quotes

“When your gaze slips off the mirror and onto how well you function in the world instead, you inevitably shift emphasis away from working out to change how you look and toward physical performance.”
― Daniel Kunitz, Lift: Fitness Culture, from Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors

“Sometimes we need a place to first picture and then practice being the person we want to become.”
― Daniel Kunitz, Lift: Fitness Culture, from Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors

“Sealfit and other NFF phenomena like obstacle races and CrossFit ask us to accept, even embrace, difficulty; to overcome the seemingly impossible and in so doing overcome the selves that we are today.”
― Daniel Kunitz, Lift: Fitness Culture, from Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors

“In the gymnasion one comes to know oneself through oneself. What is training in the gym, if not a daily inquiry into what and who we are? It is there that we learn how much pain we can endure, what our weaknesses are, what our strengths are, where our fears lie, and how we might face them; we learn the meaning of discipline, of measure, of perseverance, of change, of balance. This is the romance of a life of athletic practice: that the body becomes a medium of knowledge through which we might understand ourselves and the world.”
― Daniel Kunitz, Lift: Fitness Culture, from Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors