So insightful. I was really negatively influenced by the fitness industry as well back in the day. I'm glad that I've learned to look with a more skeptical eye at these corporate fitness/ "wellness" giants and see what works for me. Blogs like yours help myself and others immensely to come to terms with this!
Totally! I've also been thinking a lot about how easy it is for people to follow trends and to not take the power back on their own health and wellness. It's okay to be skeptical of what you hear—it means you care about yourself!
Great read Kiersten, and totally agree that the fitness industry have a lot to answer for. They’ve brainwashed people to think they need to “push it to the limit” every time they exercise, rather than just do some movement they enjoy to get the endorphins. A cruisey 20 minute jog does it for me, but it took me a while to realise that after retiring from sport.
Honestly, I think this is why I love to exercise in the morning! That boost of endorphins does it for me the rest of the day, and I can't imagine going a day without it. Yet it doesn't have to be a super intense workout, and it never is a result of how I ate. Why turn something good into a punishment? It seems backwards!
So insightful. I was really negatively influenced by the fitness industry as well back in the day. I'm glad that I've learned to look with a more skeptical eye at these corporate fitness/ "wellness" giants and see what works for me. Blogs like yours help myself and others immensely to come to terms with this!
Totally! I've also been thinking a lot about how easy it is for people to follow trends and to not take the power back on their own health and wellness. It's okay to be skeptical of what you hear—it means you care about yourself!
Great read Kiersten, and totally agree that the fitness industry have a lot to answer for. They’ve brainwashed people to think they need to “push it to the limit” every time they exercise, rather than just do some movement they enjoy to get the endorphins. A cruisey 20 minute jog does it for me, but it took me a while to realise that after retiring from sport.
Honestly, I think this is why I love to exercise in the morning! That boost of endorphins does it for me the rest of the day, and I can't imagine going a day without it. Yet it doesn't have to be a super intense workout, and it never is a result of how I ate. Why turn something good into a punishment? It seems backwards!
It is backwards and I think smashing yourself with exercise is a symptom of a bad case of perfectionism.