"personal resistance" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, you might say: "The social activist demonstrated her personal resistance to injustice by organizing a protest."
And, as an act of personal resistance, he suggests picking up a book.
The bishop remains opposed to ordaining noncelibate gays, because of both his own personal resistance and that of his diocese.
You sense this two-year project was challenged as much by Blumenthal's personal resistance to dullness as by any agency's red tape.
A refusal to over-consume, choosing the generic over the branded, a rationalisation of expenses: all this is the only practical personal resistance available.
The play has, in its time, come to represent a rather binary interaction: that of state authoritarianism, represented by Creon, versus personal resistance, embodied by Antigone.
With the crashing of the bottle the writer gives in to her husband, for she feels that her personal resistance to the Jewish observances is not that important.
So I can tell Republicans from personal experience, resistance is futile.
Another possibility is that the discrepancies reflect a difference in personal values, resistance to change, and other personal preferences.
Deghayes developed a personal policy of resistance.
Ms. Alsop had a personal brush with resistance to change when her appointment was announced by the Baltimore Symphony two years ago.
The participants are drilled by a personal trainer with resistance exercises like push-ups and squats, and cardio, including on-the-spot jumps, sprints, and step aerobics.
