# fitnessy
## English
### Etymology

From fitness +‎ -y.

### Adjective

fitnessy (comparative more fitnessy, superlative most fitnessy)
* Related to fitness.
** 2013, John Edmonds, Beyond the Horizon: Into the Light, Returned From ‘Death’, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 3:I always had a passion and fascination for biology and how the mind works in conjunction with achieving and maintaining a high level of health and fitness. A ‘fitnessy’ kind of geek perhaps, but nevertheless, how a once previously sedentary, unhealthy and often obese person can refocus their mental attitude of committing to changing their less than ideal lifestyle habits into a new regime of lean endowed vitality and keeping them for the rest of their life.
** 2014, Ken Baumann, EarthBound, Boss Fight Books, published 2016, →ISBN:For all the shit talk I spew about being the guy to stick with when the zombie apocalypse occurs, if I’m being honest, you might want to find someone who’s at least an Eagle Scout. Preferably some large, muscled guy (maybe a Brad) who has drunk his own pee while free climbing a local mountain. A guy who owns multiple pairs of variously cleated shoes. A woman who has served in the military, given birth, or who uses her body in a fitnessy way.
** 2017 April 26, Sarah Jacoby, “How 11 Women Changed Their Workout Routines While Pregnant”, in Refinery29‎, archived from the original on 25 February 2023:If you check the fitnessy corners of Instagram, prenatal workouts are intense and impressive AF.
** 2017 July 4, Lucy Woodham, quoting Gigi, “How to use Tinder to find a relationship, by people who have done it”, in The Tab‎, archived from the original on 8 February 2019:My pics are just of me, I have a selfie, a pic of me eating pizza, a fitnessy picture, and a picture of me as a sexy Darth Vader on Halloween.
** 2017 November 4, Megan Bruneau, “I’m A Therapist, And Sometimes I Get Deeply Lonely – Here’s How I Deal”, in HuffPost‎, archived from the original on 14 October 2018:My go-to’s with any difficult feeling are generally: […] Yoga, preferably not the “fitnessy” kind.
** 2018, CSB (in)courage Devotional Bible, Holman Bible Publishers, →ISBN:I’m not fitnessy. Fitnessy people don’t sweat, they glow. They look forward to exercise and they naturally gravitate every morning toward egg whites instead of Cadbury creme eggs. Fitnessy people don’t wear the free blood donor t-shirt they got to the gym, they wear workout gear, the real stuff that includes spandex and moisture-wicking fabrics.
** 2020 December 14, Maggie Lange, “Do You Miss the Feeling of Team Sports?”, in The Cut‎, archived from the original on 14 December 2020:Apple Fitness+ has been as anticipated as anything in the digital fitness realm could be. Their platform seemed ambitious, expensive, and try as I might to imagine fitnessy innovations, I kept skeptically asking: How much room is there to actually improve a streaming HIIT or spin class in a new way?
** 2021, P.R. Black, The Runner, Aries, →ISBN:‘Not going on an Arctic expedition, are we?’ ‘No, but we might get soggy. You’re a fitnessy person – you’ll have the stuff.’
** 2022 August 7, Matt Boyles, “As a gay man, I thought sport wasn’t for me – now I’m a PT for the LGBT+ community”, in Metro‎, archived from the original on 7 August 2022:There are still fitness companies out there pushing the ‘beach body ready’ narrative, and if that’s what motivates you to start something fitnessy, then wonderful, but then take a second to appreciate all the many wonderful ways in which you’re benefiting.