Don’t be Fooled - Friday, December 29th, 2023
Don’t be Fooled
January 2019 I was when I first wrote and shared a blog titled ‘Your Body’, and have shared it again the past couple of years.
While watching the ball drop a couple years ago I noticed that many of the commercials in between segments were geared towards fitness, and couldn’t help but feel bad. Even owning a fitness facility, I don’t understand or agree with the pressure that’s put on the ‘New Year, New You!’ With that said, we absolutely want to help you reach goals, and be the best version of yourself, whatever that may be. But that doesn’t mean pressuring you to feel like you need to look a certain way to feel healthy and fit! With that being said, here’s the post ‘Your body’ from January, 2nd, 2019...
They say a picture is worth a 1000 words, but that doesn’t mean the pictures are real. Say what???? All three of these photos above are me (Jen). Yet NOT ONE of them is the original photo. I spent about an hour on photoshop one morning a couple to prove a point. (And this photoshop was done in 2019, before AI became all the rage, so imagine what they could do now.)
We are in the fitness industry so our lively hood is based on people wanting to get and be healthy and fit. But we find it beyond frustrating to see countless promotions that have the underlining message of making you think you’re body isn’t good enough. At this time of the year especially you will see so many posts about transforming your body, or getting your body back, or even future planning for the summer beach body. These posts tell you to do this, and don’t do that, eat this and not that, take this, or to buy this program and in just 6 or 8 weeks you can look like this. They use photos to promote, because photos are powerful. With a photograph you don’t have to be told anything, you can see it with your own eyes right? WRONG! Photoshop or even some of the new camera apps are magical tools. You can take someone who is fit and make them look unfit, or just a little fitter, or even jacked. Example A, the photos about. I simply added size to myself, then I shaved and smoothed, then I added Brooke Ence’s abs to my body, and I did it all quickly just to prove a point, imagine if I was trying to sell you something, I would actually take time to make it better.
So when you feel like you might have eaten one Christmas cookie too many after the holidays and you see that post enticing you to start the New Year off right. Please think twice before jumping on it, or even feeling badly about yourself. Ask questions to the company about the product or program first, and please please understand the motives of those posts are to entice you. They’re trying to make money. Now that’s not to say all images are fake, they’re not. Or that every company or person promoting health and fitness doesn’t have the right motives, that’s just not true either. But the honest truth is, there are no quick fixes. To get fit, you have to work hard, really hard, in the gym and in the kitchen and just because you might not be seeing the results in a timely fashion doesn’t mean you won’t or that your not getting fitter.
Remember that what might look healthy and fit to you, doesn’t mean it truly is. So please don’t be so hard on yourself.
Friday, December 29th, 2023
Focus:
Deadlift
7 - 7 - 5 - 5 - 3
HSPU Progressions
WOD:
For Time:
Diane
21 - 15 -9
Deadlift 225/155
HSPU
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