Suzanne Brue


Suzanne Brue is a researcher, writer, and consultant on the connection between personality and physical exercise.

Her career began as a college counselor and faculty member at Trinity College and The University of Vermont. Inspired by her students, she developed an interest in the study of personality and individual differences and became a student of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) and then a Master Practitioner®.

Suzanne, an avid swimmer with an interest in fitness noticed that people are far more likely to succeed with exercise when the activity and environment matched their innate personality tendencies inspiring her to launch a six-year research project, interviewing hundreds of fit and physically active individuals from the full range of MBTI® personality types. From this research, she developed a revolutionary fitness personality system: The 8 Colors of Fitness. In 2008 she wrote, The 8 Colors of Fitness: Discover Your Color-Coded Fitness Personality and Create an Exercise Program You’ll Never Quit, followed by the 2015 publication of The 8 Colors of Fitness: Your Workbook, and in 2018, The 8 Colors of Fitness, Your Guidebook.

Suzanne is a frequent speaker at psychological and fitness conferences. Most recently, she partnered with several YMCAs and developed a statewide physical activity program for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida. Wellness professionals around the globe use her program to coach their clients/patients to become more fit.

Suzanne, a Purple, enjoys swimming, biking, yoga, and strength training among other things. She and her Silver husband divide their time between Delray Beach, Florida, and Healdsburg, California.

MBTI® Early Research Articles

Type and Physical Exercise: Which Holds Sway… Job or Play?

Type plays a fascinating and pivotal role in how and why these people exercise. It is a connection I have been studying for six years, as I have interviewed hundreds of…

The Feeling Function and Physical Exercise

The feeling function is a rational judging process driven by values that are assigned to all things. The focus is on these subjective values and decisions are made in…

The Thinking Function and Physical Exercise

The thinking function is a rational judging function driven by principles of cause and effect. It links ideas through logical connections and is impersonal in its…

The Intuitive Function and Physical Exercise

To gather information about the connection between type and physical exercise, I have been interviewing individuals of the 16 types who exercise regularly, asking the…

The Sensing Function and Physical Activity

As I suggested in my last article, the difficulty for many people in maintaining an exercise program frequently results from choosing an exercise program that is…

Tales about Type and Physical Exercise

I have been studying type for over ten years, but I did not make the connection between type and physical exercise until a conversation with my mother (ESFJ) a year ago.…