Such a good piece Emilia! I - and I think many other women - have an interesting relationship with bodybuilding in that I saw it all over Instagram, became obsessed with looking like a competitor, yet had no desire to compete. Cue a completely unnecessarily lean body, 365 days a year, made from macro counting and weight lifting six times a week. Wild to look back on!
Thank you! Exactly this. I think there's such a mismatch between what we're told it takes to look at a 'maintainable' lean and what actually it does (and what that actually looks like in real life vs. online...)
Such a good piece Emilia! I - and I think many other women - have an interesting relationship with bodybuilding in that I saw it all over Instagram, became obsessed with looking like a competitor, yet had no desire to compete. Cue a completely unnecessarily lean body, 365 days a year, made from macro counting and weight lifting six times a week. Wild to look back on!
Thank you! Exactly this. I think there's such a mismatch between what we're told it takes to look at a 'maintainable' lean and what actually it does (and what that actually looks like in real life vs. online...)