By: Erin Snyder
Everyday, society is coming up with a new way to look 'better.' Girls of all ages, but especially teens, feel that they have to be super thin, tall, have name brand clothes, and long, flowing hair with perfectly smooth skin. Though the expectations are unrealistic, girls are presented with ways to supposedly get the same results as the models seen in magazines. They are presented with various workouts and diets, and constantly presented with advertisements for expensive make up. And then some girls go as far as making themselves throw up, just to have hip bones. It has to be said that not every girl can get the 'perfect body' that has been set in stone by the world. But who says you can't get your own perfect body? Why not step out of societies constraining bonds and actually look like a real human being?
Running is so underrated when it comes to losing weight. Certainly, if your goal is to only lose weight, you might want to do something else along with running, but if all you want to do is tone your body, well, running is the perfect way to go. I am one of the girls who can't get the perfect body that society wants me to have. I have a small waist, but due to my running history, I have muscular legs. That makes buying pants a struggle. Over the summer, I learned that running can make my body look good. Not super thin, like I've been taught, but muscular, which I come by naturally.
Because my entire family has been running for an incredibly long time, it only makes sense that I would get the body of a runner. I have broad shoulders, muscular calves and thighs, and a small waist. Luckily, along with the runners body, I got the runners mind. I've been running for a long time, and I've always had trouble excepting my body for what it is. Though I tried various ways to slim my thighs down, I just couldn't. Over the summer, I started running hard-core, and I turned anything that was once soft on me into muscle. I couldn't pinch and extra skin simply because it was stretched across muscles I didn't even know existed. I still wasn't super thin, and I didn't have a curvy body like other girls. In fact, my body had lost whatever hint of curves I had been gaining. But I was so confident in it! I had abs like none other, and my calves were so large and defined, I had pants that I could no longer wear because they wouldn't fit over them. I was beyond confident of my body, and my self esteem was sky rocketing!
Aside from toning your body, running also release endorphins in your brain, which basically happiness receptors. When your happy, you confident, and a confident person rarely listens to society and its unrealistic expectations. After going on a nice, long run and you look in the mirror, I guarantee you will absolutely confident in the way you look, even though your body hasn't changed. That's the magic of endorphins.
As awful as society is, it's good to know that there is a way around it. Running, if you do it enough, can tone your body like nothing else. But just the occasional run here in there can make you feel confident in yourself. The way we feel is just as important as the way we look, because if you don't feel good, you won't ever look good enough in your own eyes. So my encouragement to girls of all ages is to not follow society, but to defy it. To have the body you want to have, not the body that you've been told you have to have.
Running is so underrated when it comes to losing weight. Certainly, if your goal is to only lose weight, you might want to do something else along with running, but if all you want to do is tone your body, well, running is the perfect way to go. I am one of the girls who can't get the perfect body that society wants me to have. I have a small waist, but due to my running history, I have muscular legs. That makes buying pants a struggle. Over the summer, I learned that running can make my body look good. Not super thin, like I've been taught, but muscular, which I come by naturally.
Because my entire family has been running for an incredibly long time, it only makes sense that I would get the body of a runner. I have broad shoulders, muscular calves and thighs, and a small waist. Luckily, along with the runners body, I got the runners mind. I've been running for a long time, and I've always had trouble excepting my body for what it is. Though I tried various ways to slim my thighs down, I just couldn't. Over the summer, I started running hard-core, and I turned anything that was once soft on me into muscle. I couldn't pinch and extra skin simply because it was stretched across muscles I didn't even know existed. I still wasn't super thin, and I didn't have a curvy body like other girls. In fact, my body had lost whatever hint of curves I had been gaining. But I was so confident in it! I had abs like none other, and my calves were so large and defined, I had pants that I could no longer wear because they wouldn't fit over them. I was beyond confident of my body, and my self esteem was sky rocketing!
Aside from toning your body, running also release endorphins in your brain, which basically happiness receptors. When your happy, you confident, and a confident person rarely listens to society and its unrealistic expectations. After going on a nice, long run and you look in the mirror, I guarantee you will absolutely confident in the way you look, even though your body hasn't changed. That's the magic of endorphins.
As awful as society is, it's good to know that there is a way around it. Running, if you do it enough, can tone your body like nothing else. But just the occasional run here in there can make you feel confident in yourself. The way we feel is just as important as the way we look, because if you don't feel good, you won't ever look good enough in your own eyes. So my encouragement to girls of all ages is to not follow society, but to defy it. To have the body you want to have, not the body that you've been told you have to have.