Is this picture an unrealistic fitness goal?

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  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
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  • Traveler120
    Traveler120 Posts: 712 Member
    edited November 2015
    vczk2t15 wrote: »
    IMHO, she's photoshopped. but, even if she isn't, i think a normal person wouldn't look like that.

    Sure, if your definition of normal is the average overweight American. Otherwise, I don't know what's abnormal about her. She looks like what an athletic and fit woman with her body shape would normally look like. Goes to show how the obesity epidemic has clouded people's understanding of what normal is.
  • AlisonH729
    AlisonH729 Posts: 558 Member
    sarahlifts wrote: »
    Alicia Marie is a fitness model. She competes and is on the cover of fitness mags such as SHAPE. She gets paid to look this way. She has a tiny waist her aesthetics are due to genetics and hard work. I've seen hundreds of her photos some shopped bc they are in magazines some sooc and this is what she looks like. It is attainable for her. She is petite, lean with a bubble butt. I'd love to have her figure but I'm not gonna say its not attainable bc I don't have her genetics.

    This is not photoshop (at least not in the sense that most mean it) color adjustment, clarity adjustment, removal of noise etc. But making the waist smaller, making her bum bigger NOPE this is genetics and hard work. Try a little and you'll find the best YOU instead of comparing and tearing someone down. Not that she cares lol

    Honestly we could end the thread right here.

    But to add: Here is Alicia's Instagram. (Found via the watermark on OPs photo. And frankly I'm not about all these gratuitous half naked selfies, regardless of how good her body is.) But that's what she looks like. Like @SarahLifts says, its a combination of (mostly) genetics and hard work. As a model, this body is her job. Even the most genetically gifted among us probably don't have the time necessary to put in the work it would take to look like this. Not while holding down a day job anyway.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Traveler120 wrote: »
    vczk2t15 wrote: »
    IMHO, she's photoshopped. but, even if she isn't, i think a normal person wouldn't look like that.

    Sure, if your definition of normal is the average overweight American. Otherwise, I don't know what's abnormal about her. She looks like what an athletic and fit woman with her body shape would normally look like. Goes to show how the obesity epidemic has clouded people's understanding of what normal is.

    I disagree that the proportions of her breasts, waist, and hips are that of an average athletic and fit woman.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I don't think that's actually a "fitness" goal....physique doesn't necessarily have anything to do with fitness aspirations. Also, a lot of physique is genetic.
  • VegasFit
    VegasFit Posts: 1,232 Member
    sarahlifts wrote: »
    Alicia Marie is a fitness model. She competes and is on the cover of fitness mags such as SHAPE. She gets paid to look this way. She has a tiny waist her aesthetics are due to genetics and hard work. I've seen hundreds of her photos some shopped bc they are in magazines some sooc and this is what she looks like. It is attainable for her. She is petite, lean with a bubble butt. I'd love to have her figure but I'm not gonna say its not attainable bc I don't have her genetics.

    This is not photoshop (at least not in the sense that most mean it) color adjustment, clarity adjustment, removal of noise etc. But making the waist smaller, making her bum bigger NOPE this is genetics and hard work. Try a little and you'll find the best YOU instead of comparing and tearing someone down. Not that she cares lol

    Yep, agree! And having met her at a few shows and taken pictures with her she does look like that! *kitten*! Haha! But is is constantly also posting on her FB and IG nutrition and exercise tips.

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