Perfect

Let’s have a little chat about perfectionism.  Even the rebels among us are susceptible to its messages—we have to rebel perfectly to show how little society’s emphasis on perfection means to us.

Perfectionism is not our friend.  It’s a tool that the cis-hetero-white-supremecist-imperialist-capitalist-patriarchy uses to keep us working and working and working some more.  We can never work enough to make the system happy with us.  We can only work ourselves to death.

 

So.  In a fitness context, this has a couple of implications.  One is:  take the time to work out.  We are worth it, no matter what society tells us.  We can take back that much of our time to do something that makes our bodies feel good.

 

Another is:  we can work out before we have the perfect body or the perfect workout.  It is all right to show up at the gym in whatever clothes we happen to have on.  We don’t have to know all the things to do from the first day.  We are allowed to try stuff out and be bad at it.

 

And:  the fact that we’re never going to be perfect does not mean that we don’t want to work hard.  The fun in working out comes from learning and growing and getting better at stuff, which only happens if we show up and play hard.

 

Go play.  It’s gonna be perfect.