What You Look Like Shouldn’t Matter
Feeling good in our bodies is often wrongly conflated with “looking good to other people.” Many people start working out because they want to change how they look, but there is a genetic limit to what we can change about our bodies. Finding something at the gym that makes it fun and rewarding to do the actual work of working out is much more rewarding and often leads to feeling good even if there aren’t big visual changes to the body.
You Shouldn’t Care About Your Bodyfat Percentage
Body composition is a popular metric for measuring overall fitness and physique, but it has significant drawbacks to its use. There are no publicly available and reliable methods for measuring body composition, which means that the metric itself is less useful (and often more discouraging) than it should be. While it may “seem” less scientific or data-focused, in reality, ditching or de-emphasizing body composition in favor of other methods can generally produce better results.