08/01/2022
❕POSTED WITH PERMISSION ❕
Headline: NO MORE COMPARING YOUR BODY WITH SOMEONE ELSE’S!!!! 🎤🎤
PLEASE NOTE: These two athletes are coming off 4+ years of high level year round training. This includes practices and workouts daily, as well as weekend competitions during the season, and heavy workouts in the off season. The training doesn’t stop and more often than not the athletes are working in a deficit (which means they are burning more than they are consuming). This is not necessarily a sustainable body type and in no way is this post promoting a specific body type or image. The pictures are simply being used as an example of some very important points.
Case study: 2 College Athletes, similar genetics as they are relatives, same height, very close weight, identical training schedules and routines, similar eating/hydration habits, very similar metabolism, photos taken in the off season in 4th and 5th years of collegiate sport (almost same age).
So why do the bodies look completely different? These two athletes ate the same, did the same workouts, had similar schedules, heck they even have some similarities when it comes to genetics/anatomy! What is going on here?
A lot of things are going on. But no point rings louder and clear in this case study; WE CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT COMPARE OUR BODY TO SOMEONE ELSE. Doing someone else’s workout hoping for the results they earned is setting yourself up for failure or disappointment (not in all cases, and movement is movement regardless of what it is, but that’s a whole different subject altogether).
Even with all the similarities between these athletes, the pictures show different results. When you are setting goals for yourself, it is important that we focus on ourselves and what is achievable for our body. Leaving comparison on the back burner is hard with the amount of exposure we have on social media to the “ideal” body type. But as long as we keep reminding ourselves of this, and focus on ourselves, the lifestyle we want to live, the experiences we’ve had that have shaped us, then we are heading in the right direction ☺️