{"id":426564,"date":"2022-08-23T20:06:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T00:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=426564"},"modified":"2022-08-23T20:59:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T00:59:20","slug":"a-critique-of-body-acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/23\/a-critique-of-body-acceptance\/","title":{"rendered":"A CRITIQUE OF \u00e2\u20ac\u0153BODY ACCEPTANCE\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Certainly there are things you cannot change (your facial features, height, eye color, etc), and your genetic features. Yet, there is so much you can change!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My overall critique of the notion of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153body acceptance\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is depressing. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s telling yourself, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is the body you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re stuck with, and there is nothing you can do about it\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It is fatalism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a superior approach? I say\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Okay there are certain things I can change and certain things I cannot<\/em><\/strong> change. Disregard the aspects I cannot change, but take radical control of the things I can<\/em><\/strong> change!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For example, weight lifting as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153epigenetics\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, or how you can modify your genetics. Any human being, if they start weight training will<\/em> and must<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>put on muscle mass (skeletal muscle mass). This is a physiological fact. For example it is impossible for anyone who can deadlift 500+ pounds to not<\/em><\/strong> have bigger muscles than someone who cannot. Or in other words,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you start training deadlift, squat, and bench press it is impossible to not put on muscle mass and to increase the size and strength and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153swoleness\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of your muscles. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n