Team Tactic

So it turns out that an open hand position is just a better position for push ups for both women and men. Isn’t it fun how the fitness industry keeps finding new ways to sell gendered solutions to women that are really just the expected outcome of a change that anyone would experience when making said change?

Girl Push-Ups ❌ RETIRED

Pete Push-Up ✅ Welcome to vernacular

Oh look, another man on the internet who’s obsessed with controlling women’s bodies.

Is anyone else starting to see the game?

Isn’t it becoming obvious that in order for women to continue spending money on health and wellness solutions, you have to frighten them about their current condition?

Isn’t it clear that there are billions of dollars to be made on the fabricated insecurity of women and this largely comes at the hands of men?

Health does not have a look. People in small, medium, and large bodies can all be both healthy and unhealthy. If someone is telling you something different, they are being intentionally misleading or they just don’t know what they’re talking about. Or both.

Have we not yet learned that the wellness industrial complex & women’s health (beauty standard) industrial complex tends to rely on boogie men to do the heavy lifting of driving fear and consumerism in their target market?
 
That’s what cortisol is. And it’s a really good one because it actually can cause some trouble in specific instances, it’s very hard to accurately measure, and it provides a very convenient explanation for symptoms that can be attributed to a great many other things.
 
Some common myths about cortisol:
1 – Cortisol is bad.
2 – Cortisol should always be low.
3 – You can feel when your cortisol is high.
4 – Eating carbs in the morning keeps cortisol elevated
5– High cortisol is the main reason you can’t lose weight.
6. Chronic stress = chronically high cortisol.
7. Adrenal fatigue is a real thing.
8. Supplements and detoxes can help lower cortisol.
9. At home tests can tell you if something is wrong.

Cortisol is a strawman. It’s a distraction away from doing things like running or working out with intensity or eating normal foods at regular intervals. Almost nothing that gets promoted online as a way to “lower” cortisol has been proven to be clinically effective at lowering cortisol or positively impacting the symptoms that people connect to high cortisol.
 
If you want to manage your cortisol, the best thing you can do is take care of your overall wellness. Eat regular meals that have a variety of macro and micronutrients. Start with a really big breakfast that definitely has carbohydrates. Move your body. Get your heart rate up. Spend some time in the sun. Go to bed at a normal time. Practice mindfulness.
 
And most importantly – ignore these goons on the internet who are just regurgitating bad information they heard from someone else. If someone has to take their shirt off in order for you to listen to them, they probably aren’t worth listening to.

It may seem intuitive to learn everything you need to know about the thing you want to do before you start to do it, but the only thing that does is waste valuable time. The best way to do anything is to get started as soon as you can. Learn what you need to to make a decision, choose a path, and rest assured you will make mistakes along the way. But mistakes are valuable teachers if you are willing to see them that way.
 
And speaking of teachers, you don’t have to do this work alone. If you work better in a community, find a community. If you struggle with accountability or knowledge, hire a coach (like us!). Part of learning is identifying where you struggle and fall short and then putting the right systems and people into place.

Stop trying to make whatever you are trying to do and just do it! I’m serious.

Perfection is the enemy of progress. Done is better than perfect.

Decide out what you need to do, to start, to check off your list, and take action on it now. Don’t think about it for another second.

This post is imperfect, but it’s either this or nothing at all. And I’m taking this as a win regardless of how many people tap that little 🩶.

Yes, all I need is a golf ball and I prefer it that way. Anyways, I wasn’t terribly fussed over Sydney Sweeney, that’s like getting mad at a duck for getting in a lake. We can hope the duck has enough sense to recognize when the lake is about to freeze so they don’t get stuck and perish, but the duck is going to do what the duck is going to do.

What I would challenge you all to do is take the time you are spending on talking about Sydney Sweeney and redirect it to a woman who is actually doing a sport. That will serve a dual purpose. First it will reduce the amount of attention that Sweeney et al receive and second it will go directly to supporting the careers of women athletes.

I am mad about this ad but I’m not so mad at the misrepresentation of women athletes, which I actually think is minimal. I’m mad at what the ad is for and how it stands to impact the next generation of men and women. I’m mad that the objectification of women increases violence towards women and perpetuates cycles of abuse. I’m mad that gambling is allowed and promoted at the highest levels of our government despite blatant insider trading and manipulation and that alone is going to start to impact how men’s and women’s sports are played because there is simply no way to combat interference for the right price. I’m mad that kids are seeing this at a time where they are developing their identities because there are no social media regulations despite widespread knowledge of the addictive and impactful nature of social media on kids. And I’m mad that the financial hardship people will face on account of gambling addictions will also increase violence, specifically towards women.

So yes, be mad. Be outraged. But don’t be distracted. Let’s aim that in the right place.

🙊 Pardon my language. One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself is your own seriousness. You can take what you do seriously, even if you’re new to it, even if you’re bad at it, even if you’ll never be the best in the world. You still deserve to meet your potential if you want to.

We love to hate her ❤️

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