Dara just one the national title in the 100M Freestyle in 54.4 at the ripe old age of 40. Simply Incredible. :applaud: :woot:
If that's not inspiring I don't know what is.
No, but pictures of women remaining active and healthy way into their 40's? Yes.
Don't blame the epidemic of body image on athletes...you are joking right? I'd love to see what an olympic athlete eats on an average day. Body image is less to do with keeping fit and more to do with crappy media glory of virtually impossible 38-22-30. Eat less crap, move about a bit more and stay active, even if you're big you won't be as big and your internal health will be better.
Elise, respectuflly, here and with earlier comments you made, you seem to add support to the "valuation system" for females and how their worth declines as the years and pounds go on, or they have kids and then should morph into mothers with no life for themselves!
Wow! You are making some pretty strong assumptions! Too bad I was writing my post as you were posting this one. I think you will see where I stand on the issue of women and fitness.
Appears that you are assuming that because one likes the idea of staying at home with kids instead of working that one believes that women should become nothings and get fat. Far from it! A woman staying at home does not mean she does not have a life. Far from it! Many such women do volunteer work for the community and have part-time businesses out of their homes.
Many stay-at-home moms work out while their kids are at school. Alot of us are in better shape than the working moms because we have the time.
The societal pressure to be thin and much of this has been through the media, is not good. You are in the dark ages worse than I if you don't see the problem. Spain and Italy, recognizing the problem, have taken steps to get rid of the too-thin image of women in their society. I understand that models in those countries have to have a license to model now and lose it if their BMIs fall below 18. A good move that our country should take on.
No, but pictures of women remaining active and healthy way into their 40's? Yes.
Don't blame the epidemic of body image on athletes...you are joking right? I'd love to see what an olympic athlete eats on an average day. Body image is less to do with keeping fit and more to do with crappy media glory of virtually impossible 38-22-30. Eat less crap, move about a bit more and stay active, even if you're big you won't be as big and your internal health will be better.
Elise, respectuflly, here and with earlier comments you made, you seem to add support to the "valuation system" for females and how their worth declines as the years and pounds go on, or they have kids and then should morph into mothers with no life for themselves!
Wow! You are making some pretty strong assumptions! Too bad I was writing my post as you were posting this one. I think you will see where I stand on the issue of women and fitness.
Appears that you are assuming that because one likes the idea of staying at home with kids instead of working that one believes that women should become nothings and get fat. Far from it! A woman staying at home does not mean she does not have a life. Far from it! Many such women do volunteer work for the community and have part-time businesses out of their homes.
Many stay-at-home moms work out while their kids are at school. Alot of us are in better shape than the working moms because we have the time.
The societal pressure to be thin and much of this has been through the media, is not good. You are in the dark ages worse than I if you don't see the problem. Spain and Italy, recognizing the problem, have taken steps to get rid of the too-thin image of women in their society. I understand that models in those countries have to have a license to model now and lose it if their BMIs fall below 18. A good move that our country should take on.
