Pete Magill > Quotes

“It’s more efficient to run with smaller muscles. Your body is no dummy. It goes with what works.”
― Pete Magill, Build Your Running Body: A Total-Body Fitness Plan for All Distance Runners, from Milers to Ultramarathoners - Run Farther, Faster, and Injury-Free: A ... Farther, Faster, and Injury-Free

“So pick your program the way you pick your friends, as an element of your life that you’ll be happy to greet every day.”
― Pete Magill, Build Your Running Body: A Total-Body Fitness Plan for All Distance Runners, from Milers to Ultramarathoners - Run Farther, Faster, and Injury-Free: A ... Farther, Faster, and Injury-Free

“In this battle between fast-twitch atrophy (shrinkage) and slow-twitch hypertrophy (growth), atrophy wins, resulting in smaller, more physiologically efficient muscles.”
― Pete Magill, Build Your Running Body: A Total-Body Fitness Plan for All Distance Runners, from Milers to Ultramarathoners - Run Farther, Faster, and Injury-Free: A ... Farther, Faster, and Injury-Free

“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” —NAVAJO PROVERB”
― Pete Magill, The Born Again Runner: A Guide to Overcoming Excuses, Injuries, and Other Obstacles—for New and Returning Runners

“Figs: Bananas and apples may win the popularity contest, but figs are like the quiet girl next door who turns out to be a salsa-dancing neurosurgeon. And dried figs are even more remarkable. Figs have a tremendous amount of fiber, a thousand times more calcium than other common fruits (by weight), 80 percent more potassium than bananas, more iron than most other fruits, and a potent blast of magnesium—all for around 30 calories a fig.”
― Pete Magill, Build Your Running Body: A Total-Body Fitness Plan for All Distance Runners, from Milers to Ultramarathoners - Run Farther, Faster, and Injury-Free: A ... Farther, Faster, and Injury-Free