What Getting Fit Looks Like?

*Image from the movie Love Lies Bleeding*

Sometimes it feels like fitness is all hard work at the gym, excess of information and control over your body while comparing yourself to others in very different levels, this is mostly due to how being fit is represented in the media. For instance, in movies we see athletes giving their sweat and blood for greatness, to achieve high performance. Lovers getting aesthetically fit only to conquer the person they love or heroes trying to save the world by overcoming lots of physical challenges and the list of fantasies goes on. It's not entirely wrong but it creates this idea that getting fit is something out of this world when it reality isn't. So what getting fit looks like? How does one get fit?

According to the Oxford Dictionary Fitness is the quality of being suitable to fulfill a particular role or task. Whereas Fitness is an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment. Now that's too abstract, in reality, *this is what it looks like:*

Scheduling in your workouts
Walking when you can
Prioritizing sleep and rest
Meal prepping
Believing in yourself
Increasing your protein intake
Creating standards for yourself
Investing in food containers
Learning about calories and macros
Trying out new recipes
Understanding that it might not always be easy
Learning about your hunger cues
Trusting the process
Laying the gym clothes out the night before
Setting boundaries
Overcoming gym fear
Welcoming delayed gratification
Learning about your mind and body
Striving for consistency over perfection

At the end its all about knowing yourself and adapting all of this into your life, fitness is a lifestyle, being fit is not only a beauty contest or a challenge, even if it can be, but a means to have an easier life with a body that can do more for you when needed. It's about being capable to live as best as you can.

Not related but there's a beautiful quote that says 📖 :

There's something poetic about using a tool to it's full capacity.

What Getting Fit Looks Like? | Ecency