A Tainted Whirl

asthepenguinruns:

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rippedfuel:

When people ask me how do I motivate myself, I realized something today. My current training has a built in reward. That reward is performance. It’s doing a higher cadence of kettleball snatches, turkish get upping heavier, trying things and not failing at them, working toward a goal like muscle-ups, and seeing my reaction time improve and become more weapon-like when I spar.

The less I interfere with my body, the more it changes. The more I punish it the less it does.

I see a lot of girls on here punishing their bodies for not being the bodies they want. I see a lot of people running because someone once said that running is the only way to lose weight. I see a lot of people eating nothing because it’s the only way they know how. You are punishing your bodies. STOP IT.

Stop hating your body. It is not your body’s fault that it isn’t what you want it to be. Embrace what it is. Find out what it can DO. You may be the perfect built to be a weightlifter, maybe you’d be a really good swimmer. You might be a natural dancer or martial artist. You might love to cycle. Go rockclimb, or do parkour. Run if you want to run. Do something that has a built in reward. Stop punishing your body because it doesn’t fit a mold you want it to.

Aaaahhh refreshingly perfect!

(via runslikeapenguin)