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you train per aesthetic or health?

TheSpanishUlises
TheSpanishUlises Posts: 7 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
this is my question

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  • SonyaCele
    SonyaCele Posts: 2,841 Member
    yeah, kinda both.
  • Willbenchforcupcakes
    Willbenchforcupcakes Posts: 4,955 Member
    I train to have the biggest bench I can possibly have. I happen to like the aesthetics that come with it. All my health markers are pretty good as well.
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    for fun. so 'neither exactly', i guess.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    Third option, for fun. If it's not fun I won't keep at it. Aesthetic is a nice bonus if it happens. Health improvement is inevitable.
  • giantrobot_powerlifting
    giantrobot_powerlifting Posts: 2,598 Member
    Pizza
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,251 Member
    edited September 2017
    I'd say, as a 52 year old menopausal woman: for me it's shifted over the years. From fun and aesthetics to HEALTH, habit/comfort and aesthetics.
  • spiriteagle99
    spiriteagle99 Posts: 3,770 Member
    I do way more than is necessary for health, and it hasn't really made that much difference in my looks. For me, the answer would be Other.

    I like to be challenged. I find long races, very challenging. I like having a goal to work towards, like running Boston. In order to achieve that goal, I have to work hard. Along the way, I get the good feeling that comes from moving my body, being outdoors, and exploring the world around me. I find it fun and satisfying and occasionally I even get a bit of a runners high. Bonus is that I get to eat whatever I want.
  • cgvet37
    cgvet37 Posts: 1,189 Member
    I love to lift. It has been the best medicine for my degenerative back disease. I think health and strength are the most important.
  • H_Ock12
    H_Ock12 Posts: 1,152 Member
    Between those two choices.... aesthetic. But also for the challenge of meeting a goal and striving for a new one.
  • Chieflrg
    Chieflrg Posts: 9,097 Member
    Aesthetics is just a byproduct of doing what I enjoy but also require to slow down my health problems.

  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    Aesthetics for me right now.
  • gerla_k
    gerla_k Posts: 495 Member
    aesthetics for me too.
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
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  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Fitness/health. Looks don't keep you alive!
  • GemstoneofHeart
    GemstoneofHeart Posts: 865 Member
    Both.

    This is my answer.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,905 Member
    Neither. I train for events.


    And Mexican food.
  • TheSpanishUlises
    TheSpanishUlises Posts: 7 Member
    edited September 2017
    a lot of people train and eat not healthy food and they have asthetic but not health, because this my question.
    sorry for my english. im learning english
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,905 Member
    TheSpanishUlises wrote: »
    a lot of people train and eat not healthy food and they have asthetic but not health, because this my question.
    sorry for my english. im learning english

    I exercise (train) in order to be able to do the events I want to do (long distance cycling).

    I don't go out of my way to eat whatever "healthy food" is ... I eat the food I like.

    Aesthetic refers to the way things look ... beauty. Believe me, I don't look beautiful in the middle of one of my long distance bicycle rides, but I don't care. I am not there to look good. I'm there to complete the ride.

    As for health, it is questionable whether the distances I cycle are healthy. Again, I don't care. I like cycling long distances ... so I do. :)

    And that's why I exercise ... I exercise so that I can exercise more. A lot more.
  • rybo
    rybo Posts: 5,424 Member
    I train for health & performance. Aesthetics just happens in the process.
  • TheSpanishUlises
    TheSpanishUlises Posts: 7 Member
    i agree with you Rybo
  • KarenSmith2018
    KarenSmith2018 Posts: 302 Member
    I train so I don't kill people. Honestly, its my stress release, so maybe that is health related. I also train partly for looks and partly to challenge myself and achieve what I didn't think I could.
  • BigGuy47
    BigGuy47 Posts: 1,768 Member
    I train for pain management. I guess that falls under health.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,905 Member
    karenbeckwith5 wrote: »
    I train so I don't kill people. Honestly, its my stress release ...

    There is that too!

    I spend all day long sitting in front of a computer. It is great to get outside and go ride for several hours, breathing fresh air and looking at scenery ... away from the computers. :)

  • Titanuim
    Titanuim Posts: 331 Member
    I train to improve my agility and strength. The way I train shapes the way I look, rather than the other away around.

    I do a lot of aerial and handstand training which in turn means that I have massive shoulders. I think they look hot but they do make finding dresses and tops that fit a nightmare. Either too tight at the top or like a kaftan around the waist. It was never my intention to create this look, it just happened along the way.
  • Brabo_Grip
    Brabo_Grip Posts: 285 Member
    I stated for both and quickly increase the amount of training (BJJ/MMA) for competition goals, which led to the side benefit of health and asthetic. Recently dropping down 15lbs to another weight class for BJJ competitions led me to being the best aesthetically I have ever looked, but that was a side benefit.
  • Penthesilea514
    Penthesilea514 Posts: 1,189 Member
    Health at the moment, but I ain't mad at the aesthetic changes either :smiley:
  • rainbow198
    rainbow198 Posts: 2,245 Member
    Both. I enjoy fitness and working out a lot. But I also enjoy being able to wear a cute bikini comfortably.
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