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If you're going to be a competitive runner or cyclist you can't be carrying around extra body fat and hope to be competitive. I dealt with this when I was doing

If you're going to be a competitive runner or cyclist you can't be carrying around extra body fat and hope to be competitive. I dealt with this when I was doing men's sports in college, and to be fair I did develop an eating disorder to try to keep up. So this isn't really a women's issue or even a "body shaming" issue, it's about whether or not a person is able to compete in a competitive sport. At the very end of TFA they suggest that "maybe" a person could have extra weight and _still_ be competitive. Obviously the writer wasn't an athlete lol

WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
> If you're going to be a competitive runner or cyclist you can't be carrying around extra body fat and hope to be competitive. The article directly addresses this by discussing how offered body fat goals approach unhealthy levels for women. > So this isn't really a women's issue That healthy body fat levels differ between men/women and that women are expected to adhere to body fat goals that are most reasonable for men - that kind of makes this a textbook example of a womens' ussue. and It's still not clickbait.
- henriquez 5y ago
  It depends on the person and their body. In my case the body fat goals were also unhealthy, because I am not as genetically gifted as some of my peers towards the kind of body makeup needed to compete on my team. Some people have bodies that are more ideal for running (longer legs, leaner, better baseline endurance, etc.) For everyone who isn't gifted they are going to have to work a lot harder to try and keep up, and that might involve pushing to a degree past where their body is okay maintaining, and that is _necessarily unhealthy._ That's not the sport being bad so much as the person not being an ideal competitive athlete in that sport. Sports aren't about catering to the egos of the individual competitors. People can go on Instagram for that.
  - WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
    Women's health trends are not well exampled by anecdotal tales about men - because trends and anecdotes tend to be incompatible by nature.

WarOnPrivacy 5y ago

> If you're going to be a competitive runner or cyclist you can't be carrying around extra body fat and hope to be competitive. The article directly addresses this by discussing how offered body fat goals approach unhealthy levels for women. > So this isn't really a women's issue That healthy body fat levels differ between men/women and that women are expected to adhere to body fat goals that are most reasonable for men - that kind of makes this a textbook example of a womens' ussue. and It's still not clickbait.

henriquez 5y ago
It depends on the person and their body. In my case the body fat goals were also unhealthy, because I am not as genetically gifted as some of my peers towards the kind of body makeup needed to compete on my team. Some people have bodies that are more ideal for running (longer legs, leaner, better baseline endurance, etc.) For everyone who isn't gifted they are going to have to work a lot harder to try and keep up, and that might involve pushing to a degree past where their body is okay maintaining, and that is _necessarily unhealthy._ That's not the sport being bad so much as the person not being an ideal competitive athlete in that sport. Sports aren't about catering to the egos of the individual competitors. People can go on Instagram for that.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
  Women's health trends are not well exampled by anecdotal tales about men - because trends and anecdotes tend to be incompatible by nature.