#aestheticobsession

[discyours]

theguardian com/lifeandstyle/2023/feb/15/you-dont-have-to-be-young-to-build-muscle-how-women-are-breaking-fitness-taboos/ this article made me think of you and your critiques of aestheticobsessed female fitness, hope you enjoy the read

Not a huge fan tbh.

When 50-year-old Anna Jenkins, the founder of We Are Fit Attitude (Wafa), a woman-only health and fitness club, looked online for images of older women exercising, she was irritated by the pitiful size of the weights: the stock image is of a woman with grey hair lifting a 1kg weight, as if doing so were some kind of milestone.

My grandma attends a fitness club for the elderly, and they have a range of lighter weights from 0.5 to I think 5kg (although she's said nobody in the group goes up that high). I own some 1.5 kg weights myself. These types of weights aren't meant as Big Heavy Things that you lift up as an inherent accomplishment. They're a good way to basically just add a little weight while you stretch your muscles. And most exercise for the elderly is mainly aimed at maintaining flexibility and range of motion moreso than building significant muscle strength, because while both are important the first one is the main thing that really starts to limit quality of life as you age.

If fitness imagery of the young is all about aspiration – six packs, muscle definition and impossible body fat percentages – fitness imagery of older people is almost anti-aspirational. Its message is: “You probably can’t do anything at all, but look over here, there’s a lady managing this tiny thing.”

Jenkins runs the Wafa classes remotely and in person for women ranging from their late 30s to their mid-70s. One Saturday, at a class in Merton, south London, they decided to create a new set of photos, repopulate the ecosystem of stock photographs, so that when you search for “older women exercising”, you will be able to see what that really looks like. “These are proper weights,” says Annette Hinds, 60. “We’re not pussyfooting about.”

I get that the whole point of the article is that older women can still be competitive and engage in exercise in a way that they aren't usually expected to, but this just feels weirdly negative and like an attempt to compete with people who never asked for it. A stock photo of an older woman lifting a lighter weight, which is used in a range of helpful exercises, is not trying to tell you "you probably can't do anything at all". Nor is that type of exercise "pussyfooting about". If you want to focus on strength training then by all means go ahead, it absolutely has benefits including some particular benefits in maintaining bone density after menopause, as is pointed out in the article. The superiority complex just feels unecessary.

Palmer’s daughter paid her a compliment on her butt the other day: “She said it wasn’t flat like a lot of women my age.” Downward comparison is very motivating, and it is also fun to watch when people are so unabashed about it.

Yawn. Way to promote non aesthetic focused exercise. Menopause affects fat distribution and it's completely normal for it to make your butt flatter. It's not a mark of shame or an indication that you don't exercise enough.

[gabyglifestyle]

#details of the #newcollections I’m #currentlyobsessed with. Last year when Covid hit, I stopped all my #fashionposts as I found it all so unimportant...after that we decided to change our life upside down, toss everything up in the air and move to a farm, which made all that even further removed from my mind. However, after years tortured by that orange beast crimes and misdemeanors, plus this horrendous plague that’s taking so many I truly care about, plus the anxiety about contagion, I sincerely started to miss that time every day in which i immersed myself in another world while I curated my favorite beautiful things to share with you all. May it be architecture, art, fashion, nature, insanity, whatever my #aestheticobsession took me to. I know we are still battling Covid, and a giant global economic crisis and for some it might seem insensitive. But my intention is exactly the opposite. Just a little decompressing moment for our eyes and soul. And a good little break from a truly twilight zone moment. Hope you enjoy it with me. #fashiondetails (at Cachagua) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8BfqAshE9/?igshid=5uqge8fyihy

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[democratsaresexier]

y u so cool

i'm not tho...

[sparrowkisses]

aestheticobsession reblogged your post: s0phiechanguh replied to your post: s0phiechanguh...

too bad there isn’t a concrete way to measure that ._.

maturity test:

make the subject read the word "buttpoopy" out loud for as long as possible without giggling. if they make it to 5+ minutes, they are allowed to vote 

[jooonpark]

aestheticobsession replied to your post: If i don’t get a single delegation… sajdnasknkj.

EVERYONE WANTS ONE I KNOW. at least there are more this year ;D

I sent evan a very detailed email, so i think im good :D 

[democratsaresexier]

aestheticobsession replied to your post: lol tumblr conservatives and their pouting

tumblr has conservatives? since when :o

Oh yeah. Quite a surprising amount of them, actually.

[sparrowkisses]

aestheticobsession replied to your post: aestheticobsession replied to your post: 4.002...

yeah i know but i thought it just averaged out with everything else; i didnt think itd give everything else a boost by being “extra” >_<

more classes = more credits

if you take 2 semesters of MUN you get the equivalent of a full-year honors course in credits (5.00) because it is a class, and it shows up on your transcript as a 13th class period and all

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aestheticobsession replied to your post: 4.002 weighted GPA (it’s above 4.000 because i...

WAIT SHIT MUN COUNTS FOR EXTRA CREDITS WUT?

dude it's an entire extra semester class...

[democratsaresexier]

polygamy ain’t gonna fly with colleges :’(

I know :( *sigh*. This is what I get for picking so many similar colleges.

[democratsaresexier]

wherever your heart desires~ :o

My heart desires so many different places! D:

[democratsaresexier]

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aestheticobsession replied to your post: ]]>latinrocker2099 replied to your post: SAT...

i’m taking them too :o I’LL SEE YOU THERE…maybe xD

I'm taking them in South River, so if you're testing there I'll definitely see you. But if you're not there/I don't see you--good luck! 

[sparrowkisses]

aestheticobsession replied to your post: aestheticobsession replied to your post: i wasted...

oic. it started drizzling at some point today so humidity might have still contributed. i’ve heard of making them with pistachios or cocoa nibs but never pumpkin seeds. that sounds nifty :’D

yeah i make my own pumpkin seed flour with toasted pumpkin seeds and powdered sugar in a heavy duty blender/food processor we have heheheheh its fun

i made them chocolate and i used this matcha buttercream that i made like 6 cups of a while ago, i froze it and now i have like an endless supply of green tea frosting

[sparrowkisses]

aestheticobsession replied to your post: i wasted all of today baking macarons and not a...

it might have been because today is humid. back when i made macarons i had to check the weather humdity everyday LOL

no i tried making them with some diff pumpkin seeds than usual so i'm pretty sure that threw it off

(i make them with pumpkin seeds because i'm allergic to almonds lmao :'))) )

plus my oven is an entire 63 degrees off from what i preheated it to, so i had to try and compensate for that, and it kept fluctuating

[democratsaresexier]

oh. you ruined it :’(

I talked to you more does that help? haha

[democratsaresexier]

wow i feel special

Well uh I was talking to someone else too but still feel special :D haha.