FITNESS & VANITY
I use a lot Instagram, it's my favorite social network. I am also not bad accounts "fitspo" (+ fitness inspiration) held by super athletes for many years.
Yet I am really beginning to question my use of the platform. To be honest, I'm not super comfortable with the hyper sport which leads many people to post pictures of their abs / biceps / day long ass.
I love the shapely body, I have nothing against sex or nudity, but this trend bothers me more and more, because it is complex a lot of girls & boys who wish to bring to the sport but n 'not dare.
Has been criticized for a long time the dictates magazines because they put in front of the body too far removed from those of the majority of the population, and yet, now that we're actors (social) media, we enter into a logic pernicious for sports where you have to be designed as a beginner bodybuilder. It maintains the insecurity facing the body very many people.
Yet sport is not that: it's developing physical & mental abilities for performance, it's fun, is not to look in the mirror and be in the present moment. This is a time where vanity must not come into consideration, where one must be humble to be the best version of yourself.
Sport is to excel, leave everything on the tartan or the ring. Many top-level athletes do not necessarily have a perfect body, besides the physical of a marathon runner and a rugby player are radically opposed: there are so many beauties in the body in nature.
Many people will never have genetically 6-pack or ball Jen Selter yet they will be just as exceptional in a gym or on a running track.
All that to say, your physical is not a reflection of your athletic ability. You do not need to starve yourself or spend your life doing squats and strengthening exercises to be a super athlete.
Play sports because it's fun and you like it, because you want to be faster, stronger and more agile. Ride a bike in the countryside with your family, walk on your hands, go to the pool, make the climbing ... There is a world outside the gymrats who spend their time navel gazing (and post it on instagram).
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