It occurred to me as I was pinching my fat, pre-shower, that I probably am in better shape than most. And that I likely have as much muscle as I have ever had. I did weigh more during my days on the swim team (by no more than 10 pounds), but I do wonder how much of that was fat (going to an all you can eat place and stuffing yourself until you’re choking back reflexive gagging will do that to you). I didn’t have a six pack then, either, but I didn’t really care about that nearly as much then. I was concerned with my body mostly in terms of what it meant I was able to do in the pool, and later, in the dojo. <\/p>\n
Maybe I wasn’t thinking aesthetically, because I never took the notion that someone might think me attractive seriously. At least, not a guy. Now I find myself thinking of my body most often as a visual lure for attracting men, and of its apparent (to me) flaws in this regard. <\/p>\n
This is a terrible state of affairs. <\/p>\n
Biking helps somewhat with this. As does the occasional trip to the gym. Also want to get back into wall-climbing and get the wheels, axles, bearings, & brakes on my skates replaced (not that they’d be doing me alot of good in the rainy season. Hmmmm.) Not because they produce major changes in my body, but because they give me other criteria to judge myself by, and other goals to shoot for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It occurred to me as I was pinching my fat, pre-shower, that I probably am in better shape than most. And that I likely have as much muscle as I have ever had. I did weigh more during my days on the swim team (by no more than 10 pounds), but I do wonder how … Continue reading “Body image and activity”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}