How can we shift the focus of fitness from aesthetics to feeling strong and confident?

[Saggitariusdiva]

[Rosexøxø]

I agree with the comments saying they’re correlated.

But in starting a health journey feeling better can be a priority. Those starting shouldn’t feel bad just cause they aren’t feeling better yet or looking aesthetic yet. They just need to love themselves and stay motivated until they get to both more noticeably.

I would say if they were distant (aesthetics /health), and/or it was the beginning of the journey, the way to help promote health instead of appearance would be via parents and celebrities.

You talked about shift of focus. It either starts young, develops with advocates, or gets cultivated with a therapist/coach of some sort.

If you didn’t have parents who promoted good health and guide in that way, advocates who value good health and get it to be trending and viewed will be what the communities focus on. If not overall and just for self, the most helpful and practical would be with a therapist and/or life coach.

[Rosexøxø]

One could try and find it within themselves. And just START. And then just do it, but usually these seem to be the only efficient ways.

[NordicInScandinavia]

By just doing it.

By focusing on how working out makes you feel, what it does to your body - as in how it makes you feel, not look.

I was the most confident when I was fat (&unhealthy as fuck) and focusing on the health aspects of being semi fit is what keeps me that way.

[Shiprex]

I find this question and answers rather intriguing. Probably a me thing because I've never thought of my personal fitness as anything but a goal to feeling strong when I play sport. I do not enjoy training in any way or form BUT I know that training makes playing more enjoyable and performance improvements can be felt. Only in times where my personal self esteem and life's lemons have sent me down a negative rabbit hole have I thought that the aesthetics have any bearing on me and my self esteem.

SO to answer the question I would say find a sport to engage in so there'a purpose for the training to make you "feel" stronger at the sport and build a training regime around that.

[Sonorous]

Fitness & health are easier for me to stay consistent with/follow when I focus on the aesthetic part of it. I don't wake up in the morning & think about how well my internal organs are functioning due to my good diet. I wake up, flex in the mirror & think how good I look & think just how good I'll continue to look if I treat my body with care.

[Purpleronnie]

I dont see the relationship between aesthetics and fitness , it may be an unintended consequence but surely not the aim and surely in the eye of the beholder.


There is a relationship between looking and feeling good and obviously rhe opposite

[Viking_Girl19]

These aspects are extremely interconnected. We feel confident and strong and confident only when we are in good physical shape and in a healthy body

[nawtee_me]

Most people equate looking good with feeling good. So they work out to look good thinking at some point they will feel good too. Instead of learning to be okay with who they are. Being okay with who you are builds confidence by eliminating insecurities. A confident woman is a sexy woman and a confident woman know who she is and feels good about herself.

[exitseven]

I think that people should have functional bodies. I used to see big muscular guys that could bench 500 pounds for one rep but could not dig a hole without having a heart attack. Speed and endurance are just as important as big muscles.

[combative]

i guess you just have to stop being so vain. I've never worked out to look any particular way. It's always been about power, performance, and competition.

[MannMitAntworten]

Fitness isn’t about aesthetics. It is about being fit. The better aesthetics aspect just happen to be a side effect of being fit.

[Stevepro68]

I think the focus can and should be. Health not beauty. Very hard for women to do.

[MemeSupreme]

people need to stop commenting on other's bodies period

[Anonymous]

You probably can't. This world is simply just too narcissistic. But what you can do is carve out your own slice of normalcy where your self worth is not tied to other people ridiculous judgements.

[DJB72]

Take "fitness" out of the gym and give kids time working on farms.

[DrPepper12]

Cuz we're pitifully vain creatures. I mean we INVENTED the "mirror test"!!

[jimmy2]

I walk 5 miles a day , 6 days on and 90 miles a month

[Entertained_Adult]

Try boofing trenbolone.

[Staximus]

Well being fat is not fit

[Anonymous]

I wonder the same, it's a mystery.

[Kelly3_]

By making small achievable goals.

[Sono83]

Be more mindful of our health.

[ottawahuman]

Mmm
Yesssß

[Jennz6]

Just do it