Fit(ting) to you.

What does fitness mean to you?

Healthy. Holistic. Whole Foods. Diets. Keto. Paleo. Weightlifting. Yoga. Spirituality. Intensity. Crossfit. Competing. Tire flipping. Marathon Running. Big Muscles. Defined abs. Tones legs. Squatting a lot of weight. Deadlifts. Grunting. Restrictive diets. Caloric control. Macro counting. Rice and chicken.

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What does fit mean to you?

The goal of wanting to become healthy, fit and active is an overall amazing goal to have. Of course you can add some Personal Record Goals (like a 200lb squat or a 500m run, for example). However, fitness, overall - is supposed to be fun. Fitness is supposed to boost your endorphins, make you feel good and energized -confident and sexy. Fitness is supposed to be about bettering your overall health; not purely your aesthetics.

For many people, the all-or-nothing mentality has produced quite a negative response in regards to their fitness regime and beliefs. They are either balls to the walls "on point", or eating donuts for breakfast, falling asleep to Netflix in the evening. Fitness and being fit/healthy are not supposed to be extremely overwhelming, time consuming, limited or negative. Health and Fitness are not supposed to take over your life, postpone you from your obligations or hinder your relationships. It is not supposed to be detrimental to your health and livelihood. Fitness is supposed to be fun, and exciting. It is supposed to give you more out of life. More years with your kids, more memories at the park, more enjoyment when hiking and an overall better quality of life.

So why the fuck are we making it about:

a) "who can restrict the most" b )"who can train harder?"

c) "who is the most disciplined?"

etc.etc.etc

The all-or-nothing mentality will kill you when it comes to fitness. If not at first, eventually in due time.

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With ongoing Social Media posts and promotional advertising, we fall victim to the belief that we are doing essentially everything, wrong. We start restricting, eating less, training more, and being extremists; believing that it is the only way. We follow shitty people with shitty diets and shitty workouts, thinking they are experts; when in reality, they're not. We allow ourselves to start being consumed by thoughts of food, workouts, calories burned and steps taken. We get obsessed. We get tunnel visioned. We get lost in the actual process or being "the best", that we don't realize that we are actually our worst.

What does being fit mean to you?

What does health look like to you?

What do you want to achieve?

If you think being fit is all about restrictions, training and having a 6 pack. You need ta serious reality check.

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fit

/fit/

adjective

1. of a suitable quality, standard, or type to meet the required purpose:

2. in good health, especially because of regular physical exercise:

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Fit is about being in good health. That means emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual. Yes, being fit involves physical activity. However, that is not all it involves, nor is there one way of being active. Fit can come from yoga, pilates, barre fitness, sports, weightlifting, running, swimming and so many other activities. Fit involves eating healthy, but not regimented or extreme.

Ultimately:

Fit is about creating a lifestyle that is attainable to you.

Fit is about your enjoyment.

Fit is about doing things that bring you joy, happiness, peace and confidence.

Fit is not about restrictions or extremes.

Would you rather...

a) do things you enjoy, at a slower speed with longer lasting results.

OR

b) go balls-to-the-wall, crushing yourself, at a faster speed, with quick - short

lived results.

Give that one a thought, next time you start comparing your "fit"

xo

dee