Indolence Body Image Analysis

Body Image and Indolence’s

For me sports have shaped my body image while I was growing up. I was influenced by my football coaches, and my track coaches. Growing up my football coaches would always put me in the gym and give me a work out to routine to follow they had even gone to the extent to provide me with a special diet so that I could remain lean and in shape. Being overweight was not an option for me, even with me being on a diet I still could eat anything I wanted and not have to worry about gaining a single pound because of the extracurricular activities that I was doing. During this time the football coaches would create these weight lifting competitions to keep the team motivated while working out. Perception was another motivational trigger for me, I had to have no fat on my body and have the washboard stomach because the girls loves this look which motivated me to work harder because I loved when the girls would walk up to me in the hallway and ask me to lift up my shirt. During this time did have friends on my football team who were overweight, and often found to the object of people jokes. At this time, I didn’t think that this was lowering their self-esteem because they were often making jokes themselves. I would find that when we were working out I would always look in the mirror for imperfections in
Thinking back to the age of 5 I can remember my grandparents talking to my parents and tell my mother that I was a chubby kid which had affected me. My father was another person he was a body builder, and had a complete gym in the back yard and he would work out every night in the back yard. I would go sit down in the shed with my father and he would have me do pushups, chin ups, and sit-ups while he was working out. Between my father and my grandfather these two individuals had motivated while growing up to work out and be athletic and being overweight was