For some of the boys out there who are feeling insecure about their bodies, I want you to look at some Olympic athletes:
Mo Farah, 10000m gold medal winner. He’s quite small and doesn’t have huge muscles. But he’s still a champion
Lasha Talakhadze, weightlifting gold medal winner. He’s not skinny; he clearly has body fat and a rounded face. But he’s still a champion
Kōhei Uchimura, gymnastics gold medal winner. He’s muscular, but is only 1.61m tall (5ft 3″). But he’s still a champion
So what I’m trying to say is that men and boys are often given expectations to be muscular, thin and tall – the diversity in male Olympics athletes shows that you absolutely do not need to be all/any of those things to be valid. You and your body are valid no matter what.
Fighters have beautiful bodies from all their training.
But bodies come in all different sizes and shapes.
The Consumer Culture, our dominant culture, promotes the appearance of muscular bodies for Men.
But in the end a trained and conditioned body of a fighter does not reflect the “ideal appearance” of a body promoted by the Consumer Culture.
The pictures above, Olympic athletes, tells the story far better.
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