Opinionated Girl: Workin' on mah fit-ness!

?"Somebody who's got what you've got is out doing what you're not."?

That's just one of the quotes featured on our new homemade fitness inspiration posters for our home gym/office. I have a gym membership to Ladies Health and Fitness, the best gym in town for women that I've been to, and John and I also work out at home. Our home gym consists just of yoga mats and our bodies because body weight exercises are amazing to train your entire body instead of machines that train one section at a time. I weight lift and use the gym treadmill but I love doing these routines at home during the day to help me focus on my goals and remind myself how amazing the human body really is.
I read an article in the August 2012 edition of Glamour entitled, "Health Controversy: Is "Fitspo" bad for you?" that really sparked my interest. I have very often found myself perusing the Pinterest fitness boards to gain inspiration or encourage myself when I'm dragging my feet before a workout. Usually it reminds me what I'm working toward and gives me a kick in the seat of the pants to GET. MOVING.

But that's "fitspiration," which is the new craze following the banning of "thinspiration." I feel that "thinspiration" is irrevocably harmful to people because it damages self-esteem and promotes eating disorders heavily as a form of weight loss. I further feel that "fitspiration" can walk a fine line in the same. People who become obsessed with body image and working out can suffer but I don't think that it's all bad just based on it being fitness inspiration.

Just like anything else, forgetting about the principles of moderation can lead you into the danger zone. If you're educated and informed, I think that you should keep the dangerous possibilities in mind and learn self-control and self-discipline. By the logic that fitness inspiration is damaging by leading to eating disorders, we can also say that calorie counting to lose weight is also a precursor to anorexia.

For me, if it's helping me get fit and get control over my hypermobility under control, then I'm all for it. And by "all for it," I mean I want to look at it everyday to help me kick my own ass into submission.

DIY FITNESS INSPIRATION BOARDS

You'll need poster board (your choice, mine are 14x22), markers, glue stick, and magazine images.?

I took my favorite body weight routines and my husband's favorite body weight routines and wrote them in the centers so that we have a point of reference when we're running through them. I added designs in marker around to give a good background because I didn't have a lot of images. I used my husband's old Men's Health issues and my own Glamour issues to create this hodgepodge of inspiring fitness images, which I glued directly over the marker designs. It's really that easy!?

These are the workouts that John prefers to run through, though I sometimes can convince him to work out with me. I added the basic kettlebell workouts from Men's Health that he wanted because he's been talking about a kettlebell for ages and this might give him the push to get one... actually knowing what to do with it!
These are the two routines that I prefer to go through, mostly because it's less repetition (and less burpees) than what John likes to go through. The jumps in the burpees hurt my knee and ankle joints and stress the tops of my feet. (I know, it's so weird, but it's true!) I added Lea Michele for me because she is my idea of natural beauty and I respect her admirable talent. I also added a shot of Gwyneth Paltrow jogging with a quote from her reminding women that she works hard for her body because it's her job to do that and that she didn't just "inherit" it or have "good genes."

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT FITSPIRATION??

Source: http://one-girl-vs-world.blogspot.com/2012/07/workin-on-mah-fit-ness.html

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