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—————- The next find out more meeting for our March programme is on Tuesday 23rd February which is in [cntdwn todate=”30 July 2019 23:59″ timeoff=”0″ showhours=”0″ showmins=”0″ pretext=””] Check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting to find out more, see what the meeting involves and, potentially, take that next step to transforming your life and body
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At some point in the last 10 years, our definition of fitness seems to have changed.
30 years ago, athletes were considered fit.
And whilst they were relatively lean, I don’t remember Messrs Linekar, Carling, Botham, Coe and Redgrave sporting six packs.
Or Mses Gunnell, Torvill, Davies, Whitbread or Barker.
Full on six packs were reserved more for your body-builders and fitness model types.
And whilst you might think they looked ‘good’ or maybe ‘strong’, I don’t recall anyone ever saying “That Arnie looks fit”.
But nowadays if someone posts a picture in which they have visible abdominal muscles, people comment that they look “fit” (and not just in the other meaning of the word).
Or people justify their desire to look good by saying they want to “be fit”.
Because there’s no come back on that.
No accusations of vanity.
The irony though is, that in many of the pictures we are bombarded with now, the person is probably a little less ‘fit’ then they were the week before.
Fitness is defined, generally, in the dictionary as “of a suitable quality, standard, or type to meet the required purpose”.
More specifically to what we’re talking about as “in good health, especially because of regular physical exercise”.
But, when you go as lean as people do for the photo shoots they’re generally less able to meet their required purposes in life or being a good and effective partner / parent / friend / employee / boss.
Sleep and energy levels are often shot at that point.
Mood is usually down.
And the research shows that being mega lean is less good for your health than carrying a little ‘essential’ fat.
Getting down to those levels will improve health and, all else being equal, fitness, of course.
But going super lean makes you less fit, if anything.
Ultimately, people can do whatever they like with their bodies.
Want to have your body fat at any level you want, then go for it.
But don’t let anyone else tell you you have to be that lean to be fit (check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting if it’s not where you’d like it to be though and you’d like a bit of support getting it there).
Much love,
Jon ‘Beefy’ Hall and Matt ‘The Fun Bus’ Nicholson
