Global Network Financial Center 38 Special Planning: Looking for Her Power to Reach the "Impossible".
Foreword: Body anxiety refers to a negative emotion caused by people's dissatisfaction and lack of confidence in their figure. According to the [2023 National Healthy Life Insight Report], more than seventy percent of the population has body anxiety.
From a scientific point of view, as long as the body fat percentage is within the normal range, it is a healthy body and does not need it. But for many women, under the current aesthetic trend, thinness seems to have become the only criterion of beauty.
In 2023, in an open competition, the coach of the group class is also facing questions from the outside world because of his figure. When a professional group class coach also has to rethink the issue of body, how should ordinary people correctly recognize their body?
To this end, the reporter and Zhengzheng had a face-to-face communication on the topic of "body anxiety". Surprisingly, even in the face of various doubts and criticisms, she has always maintained a sober and rational understanding of body anxiety in her heart.
Text: Global Network Financial Center Report Reporter Li Wenyao] Zhengzheng, the coach of the group class who has been teaching for 6 years, did not expect that the biggest dispute in 2023 will actually come from the "body".
When the outside world questioned whether his figure could be a good group class coach, Zhengzheng was only in a trance for about 1 second, and then he was relieved. The body seems to have been out of the range of righteous anxiety.
From being a track and field student, to studying abroad as an international certified public accountant, to returning to China to choose the profession of group class coach, you will encounter different troubles at each stage, and there is no "body" among these troubles.
I've never had body anxiety, but I really didn't think that my body would spark career discussions. Zhengzheng said frankly that although her weight has been fluctuating at different stages, for the profession of group class coach, what Zhengzheng really cares about is not the cold number on the scale, or the so-called conceptual pear-shaped body, she thinks that the most important thing is the expressiveness of the body in sports.
Your bodily perception will tell you all the answers. ”
Does body shape matter?
The first time I felt that "body" would bring judgment to the outside world was in an important long jump competition. At that time, it was the right time to puberty, and his weight had soared to more than 70 kilograms, and although his long jump performance had remained stable, his body had deviated from the standard of ordinary athletes.
On the first attempt, Zhengzheng, who was not in shape, rushed out of the sand pit, but the normal mistake caused the crowd to laugh. "I knew I had made a mistake, but I didn't expect that the focus was not on my technique, but on my size. Even now, when discussing this matter, Masamasa still wonders: "As an athlete, shouldn't you pay attention to my skills?" ”
The weight and stature that exceed the standard of normal athletes make the spectators directly give Masashi a judgment that it is impossible to succeed. It wasn't until he was playing normally in the later competitions, won the first place in the competition, and was directly rated as a national second-level athlete, that he shattered the judgment of the result caused by the "figure" with facts.
And this experience only caused doubts about the body, not anxiety. I attribute this to the relaxed and happy family atmosphere and harmonious relationship with my classmates.
My family is all involved in sports, and my parents didn't strictly require me to maintain a certain body shape or body shape, and for them, my health was more important. And I got along well with my classmates, and I wasn't ridiculed at school because of my size or weight. As a result, I haven't actually paid attention to the body shape all the time. ”
In the following time, going on to higher education, studying, studying abroad and then returning to China to find a job, I have experienced the pressure of going to school, the tension of studying, and the confusion of job hunting.
In 2018, when she returned to China to find a job, her desire for sports made her soak in the group class classroom in Keepland every day. With excellent physical fitness and excellent classroom performance, her coach couldn't help but throw an olive branch to her: "Do you want to try to be a group class coach?" ”
This question made Zhengzheng directly deviate from the career track that he had already planned: he gave up the opportunity to enter the Big Four accounting firms and became a group class coach.
Zhengzheng sighed: "So you ask me if my body is important?" At least as I was growing up, it didn't affect every important choice I made. ”
Does the body represent the professionalism of the coach?
Her natural pear-shaped body makes her strength in her lower limbs outstanding, and it also sets her apart from the traditional standard coach body.
In fact, only from the point of view of the body, you can't give a direct judgment to different types of coaches. For example, some players in heavyweight competitions will be stronger in the offseason, while some players in non-heavyweight competitions may not be much different from normal people in the offseason.
In the same way, different types of athletes, due to different training items and different muscle strength, will have obvious differences in body shape, just running, but also because of the choice of sprinting and long-distance running, etc., there will be different physical performance.
Weightlifters and discus throwers have relatively more muscles on their bodies, and those engaged in sports such as dancing have a tighter and slender body.
The group class coach also has a different body shape. For example, the trainer of the training class will have a stronger sense of muscle, the trainer of the aerobic class will have more slender muscles, and the coach of the dance class will have a better sense of shape. At the same time, because he teaches courses such as trampoline, the demand for lower limb strength is relatively large, and he usually strengthens the training of lower limb strength, which also leads to a relatively high muscle content of the lower limbs and a strong sense of strength.
This does not mean that Zhengzheng will not carry out body management, in fact, Zhengzheng not only has to participate in coach training, fitness training, but also regularly pass physical fitness assessments, and will adjust his diet according to different training goals in different training periods.
Over the years as a coach, Zhengzheng's weight has also fluctuated to a certain extent, and while paying attention to weight, Zhengzheng pays more attention to the feedback given by the body during exercise.
For example, in the process of trampoline, if my legs are shaking, then I know that I need to lose fat, if I can't easily complete 1 hour of exercise, then I know that I should increase physical training, if the overall feeling of pushing is weakened, then I know that I need to increase leg strength training. "The understanding of the relationship between body and exercise is that body shape cannot reflect a person's athletic ability, but the body can tell you the condition of the body during exercise.
So, in my opinion, it's not about body anxiety, it's about understanding the signals sent by the body, so as to improve athletic performance and physical fitness. Zhengzheng believes that as a professional coach, learning the theoretical knowledge of fitness, and being able to know his physical state from the body feedback, can better carry out self-training and maintain a good class state.
Judging from the current industry situation, there is no unified body management regulations for group class coaches in terms of figure, and different platforms will formulate corresponding assessment mechanisms according to different situations. However, there are not many platforms that conduct a single assessment in terms of weight, dimension, body fat percentage, etc., and the platform still pays more attention to the assessment of group class coaches in terms of physical fitness, project professionalism, and skills.
Whether exercise should be equated with physical fitness.
Many students are aiming for fat loss at the beginning of the class, but in the long run, regular exercise habits can maintain physical and mental health, which has also become the reason why many students are willing to take group classes.
It is important to note that even regular exercise does not guarantee that the exerciser will continue to lose fat or shape for a long time. At the same time, due to the difference in individual genes, the body is naturally different in appearance. From this point of view, the so-called bodybuilding is not the standard for sports.
Therefore, in the face of questions about "figure", many peers and students have sent positive feedback to Zhengzheng, in the eyes of students, professional, rigorous, hardcore, energetic, enthusiastic is the right label, these have nothing to do with the figure.
Correspondingly, it is precisely hoped that the students will convey the skills of sports and the feeling of happy sports.
In fact, many of the bodybuilding we think of is not only achieved through group classes or iron, from a theoretical point of view, it involves the adjustment of diet, the way and method of training, and the training time. Zhengzheng said with a smile: "Once a student came to me with a **, hoping to be able to train into a muscular body, I would persuade her to go to the iron and ask a professional private trainer to make a training plan, because it is impossible to achieve a specific body standard only by group classes." ”
"Exercise is not equal to body" is a change and progress in the concept of sports, which is why more and more health sports science bloggers have been welcomed in recent years. More and more women have begun to accept more diverse aesthetic standards, and they are also paying more attention to the health and happiness behind sports.
Zhengzheng will even consider trying to do different exercises outdoors with her students, and in her opinion, developing a healthy and regular exercise habit is more reliable than having to set a clear fat loss goal. Zhengzheng sighed: "I hope they can fall in love with more dimensional sports, that is, love sports themselves." ”
At present, for the public, there have been some changes in the aesthetics of the figure. "Fitness first brain health" has become a popular word on social platforms, and related sports science content has also begun to catch up with fitness courses and become the content of many netizens. Before exercising, it is even more important to know how to exercise and how to protect yourself from injury.
From the perspective of body shape, from paying attention to weight, to paying attention to body fat percentage, to accepting multiple health aesthetics, and achieving dual health from the inside out, may be the long-term goal to pursue.