Strong Is the New Beautiful
Embrace Your Natural Beauty, Eat Clean, and Harness Your Power
Embrace Your Natural Beauty, Eat Clean, and Harness Your Power
"Lessons in strength, fitness, food, and attitude from the popular world champion skier and beauty icon--Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn. Olympic Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn wants women to stop thinking about "losing weight fast," and instead focus on loving their bodies for what they are and what they can do. Lindsey is a small-town Minnesota girl at heart turned world-champion skier, but that didn't come without hard work. In Strong Is the New Beautiful, Lindsey lays out the never-before-seen training routines and her overall philosophy that have helped her become the best female skier in the world--tailored for women of all shapes and sizes. Lindsey backs up her fitness program with advice on what to eat and how to work out, and kicks readers into high-gear, helping bolster their self-confidence and build a better body image, with the tips and tricks she's learned as a pro. This is Lindsey's regimen, and she encourages people to take from it what will work for them. She bounced back from injury not by doing every single thing a trainer said, but instead, by thinking about the fitness plan that would work for her, and eating the right foods that would make her feel and get healthy. In Strong Is the New Beautiful, she interweaves her training and diet regimen with compelling stories of her life growing up in the heartland, her love of skiing, the challenges she's faced--including injuries, illness, and depression--and her secrets to wellness, fitness, and recovery,"--Amazon.com.
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I don't know why I am unable to resist these books since they always end up annoying me as often as I agree with them.
da: reasonable beginner fitness book. getting strong is good for you (surprise) eat real food and fat not processed crap (surprise) find movement /physical practices that make you happy and feel good (yay!)
pet peeves: “clean eating/ eat clean / clean food” “get lean” (lady two inches of extra muscle and being a professional athlete does not make you huge! stop pretending you still fit all the regular markers for Western beauty - tall, blonde, LEAN ) also some of us have other goals?
also your photos get progressively more naked, which is not bad per se - Vonn looks great of course - but struck me as odd for a text that was full of body positive rhetoric about how great you'll feel with the increased confidence and capacity from resistance training. I would like to see more photos on Vonn doing things she loves (cycling! skiing! her doggos!) to emphasize we are all more than our aesthetics (yes I know we all want to look good too but God can we all do our part to push back against the dominant paradigm????)
