After learning to appreciate her strong yet feminine body, curves and all, personal trainer Jessi Kneeland of Remodel Fitness is on a mission to "save women from their own negative body image." You'll love her thought-provoking posts about the body-positivity movement and how to build self-
Women’s Health banned the phrases “bikini body” and “drop two sizes” from their cover, The Pirelli Calendar got a revamp, and pretty much everywhere you look, women started changing their fitness goals from “flatter abs” to “get stronger and feel great.”
One big reason for this shift is that for so long (and admittedly, still even now!) there was a crazy amount of misinformation being thrown around about what kind of training would give women the body they desired. The old advice was to “eat less and move more,” which led to countless dieters and cardio-bunnies, but that advice straight up didn’t work. With cardio, just doing more and more eventually trashes the metabolism, making it harder to get the body you want. Ditto for dieting; ninety five percent of all diets fail, and the dieter will gain the weight back plus some, thanks to metabolic damage.
As our cultural emphasis on looking “perfect” was coming to a head thanks to photoshop, social media, celeb culture, and advanced non-invasive procedures, people started putting more and more effort into changing their bodies. But the misinformation on how to go about that was failing us, and many women retreated to secret shame caves when it came to their bodies, sure that there must be something unspeakably wrong with them. The harder they tried to look better, the worse they looked; we created an epidemic of people who feel fundamentally broken.
