Strong Is the New Beautiful

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????)