Who Are We Training For?

 (picture of the internet: Images by Flickr users elizabethebradford and Symplio/ http://inhabitat.com )

 

Nowadays when you log into facebook or twitter (or any other social media) you get bombareded by your friends and their perfect lifes. There never ending amount of pictures of their offspring and or pets. Also what you seem to be getting loads of is their activities, from mountainclimbing to 50km daily bikerides. 

I have to say that these things could get me down at times, do they really have those lives as they make it seem on facebook. Do they really go through life singing a song and dancing all the way to they are old and in a retirement home (ofcourse the best and most funfilled retirement home, because only that would be fitting). When Talking to a friend about this she told me of this friend she had…..

Apparently this friend posted on facebook anout her perfect boyfriend and that they were having a great night out on the balcony drinking wine… the actuall event was this: She was sitting on the balcony with the friend and her boyfriend, yelling at him for being such a douchebag.

So if this is only 1 of the posts being fake, then there must be so many more. This makes me feel a bit less failing in life 😉

This brings me to the point of: When you are excerzising.. who are you doing it for. Is it to show the people on facebook that you just were very healthy and worked out (while maybe you just sat at the gym looking at the machines).. or how it really should be. That you do this for yourself, to feel healthier and to prolong your life.

I do have to say that ofcourse people also need to have some respons like: you are doing well, keep on! Or: wow you lost so much weight, nice!

I wonder if we shouldn’t be giving these comments to ourselves, and that that should be enough. Why broadcast your achievements on to the interwebs. Who are you actually training for?

As for me, I train for myself. Apart from posting here I don’t feel the need to post on anything like facebook and twitter. My posting has a purpose (I would like to think). Going to the gym helps me with the chaos in my head, my anxiety and the stress. Training helps me getting both healthy physically and mentally.

Have a great Saturday!

@ValeCat14