Showing posts with label Body Image. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Body Image. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Do something today that your future self will thank you for.


What is the single best thing we can do for our health?

Well, can you limit your sitting and sleeping to 23.5 hours per day? (as in do 30 minutes exercise at some stage during the day???).

A half hour workout equates to roughly 2% of your day.

2%!

You can feel sore tomorrow or sorry tomorrow. You choose.

Saturday, October 01, 2016

What are you really working on at the gym?

Is atelophobia rife among the 'gymfam'?
 
Adopting a psychoanalytic stance to bodybuilding, Melanie Klein states that 'bodybuilding is, at the very least, a subculture whose [male and female] practitioners suffer from large doses of insecurity; hence, compensation through self-presentation of power to the outside world' (1993: 174).
 
Allegedly caused by antecedent personal and/or gender inadequacy and a masculinity-in-crisis within the larger society, bodybuilding...represent(s) an 'atavistic' strategy for concealing self-perceived flaws (Klein, 1993).
 
~ Bodybuilding, drugs and risk (Monaghan, L.)