Love Your Curves or Tone Your Tummy?

Once again the media is sensationalizing the debate between loving your body as it is or exercising to beautify your body. 

My stance on this as a fitness professional is that both sides of the debate need to wake up, open their eyes, and close their mouths. 

The love your body side says that being focused on changing your body comes from a place of self loathing, and the make your body beautiful side says that accepting yourself as you are is an excuse to not get fit. 

Why do they focus on external beauty and ego? There is an easy answer, those make it easier for them to sell you something. 

I say let's all forget about how beautiful we think we are and how beautiful we think others are. That is not what fitness is about. Fitness is about loving yourself enough to take care of your health. Fitness is about giving ourself the strength and energy to get through your daily activities. 

Lack of fitness leads to aches and pains. It leads to disease and injury. It leads to early death. 

Looking good is so irrelevant when you look at the big picture. 

Love your body because of the work it can do. Love your body because it allows you to do good in the world. Strengthen you heart, lungs, arms and legs not to get that bikini body, but so you can live life more fully, so you can give more to others and so you can be around longer for your loved ones. 

If you need help getting started contact me, it's what I do.