What Athletes ACTUALLY look like!

[@taylorhillard4868]

I think the biggest thing is that people lump fit, healthy, and athletic to be the same thing, when theyre not. Theyre a triple venn diagram. Being healthy is the absence of disease and malady. Being fit is having a high degree of healthful vigor Being athletic is performing well in one or more sports. You can be athletic without being healthy or fit. (Many use performance enhancing substances that are very good for performance, but deleterious to health) You can be healthy (no diseases, et cetera) without being fit or athletic. And you can be fit while not being athletic or healthy (for instance if you are generally physically fit and healthy but you've got an infection or sickness) Ideally its nice to have all three, or at least fit and healthy together, but they are separate concepts that shouldnt be conflated.

[@dellerbe11710]

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[@JadesFitnessBucketList]

described beautifully well, great comment

[@wayentruoc]

Why are we comparing Olympic athletes and fitness models to normal people? Olympic athletes are the best in the world and have the best genetics for their sport. Fitness models are often the most aesthetically muscular people in the world due to their genetic advantage for building muscle. Sorry, but most people have average genetics. If you feel the need to compare yourself, that's on you. Just be the best you. Always to try to improve compare yourself to yourself.

[@raze956]

it highly depends on the sport. look at gymnasts, sprinters, swimmers or volleyball players, both male and female. they are all gorgeous. as an avid gym goer, the only overweight people who are athletes are the powerlifters or strongman. since they need power and do not care about looks. works for the sport, but doesnt create desire to be like them. since the asthetics are missing. except for the ridiculous exceptions like hafthor bjornson :D so please, stop the cope. your health is one of the most precious things you have, and the body hates it to be obese. it creates so much problems down the road. mental problems as well, since people will deal with you differently. it starts with accepting reality. that being obese sucks. then a decision comes, then persistence. as a formerly obese person, i wish you the best of luck. the change in live quality is day and night when i was able to get the weight off. ps. healthy at all sizes isnt true either. because being obese already is a sign of a mental problem, since healthy people do not eat so much that it deminishes their quality of live by so much. let alone the problems that will appear when one is older.

[@dellerbe11710]

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[@gur262]

Not all shapes. Not all sizes. The chunkiest athletes would barely register as overweight in the eyes of virgie towar or tess holiday. Some do look like fitness models too. Chinese weightlifters 80-100 kg bodyweight. Sixpack.

[@sportybeth]

So you didn’t watch the weightlifting

[@dellerbe11710]

@@sportybethwhen you ignore all the lean people and look at the 81kg plus weight class and the throwers.

[@esorybur]

@@dellerbe11710 The point is that there is space for larger athletes in sport, not that all athletes are large.

[@LLIopT]

@@sportybeth Am I right that you are sort of Olympic weightlifter ?

[@MissyBelleSYD]

You’re young and the obesity isn’t yet disabling you. Get back on top of it. You can do it! Find new foods lower in calories. Find a sustainable eating pattern. Do it for your long term health. Health only exists at all sizes in the young. As you age, the obesity creates lots of health problems that wouldn’t otherwise exist. Don’t let this time you have now slip away. You’ve done it before and can do it again. (Formerly morbidly obese person who will never give up the fight).

[@OriginalMindTrick]

We are just not made for the abundance of cheap, calorie-dense, palatable foods. For some people, Ozempic or similar hunger depressants are the only thing that will control over-eating. It's just unfortunate that for now, it's overly expensive and in limited supply due to pharma greed. Some have shamed people into thinking they are stealing medicine from diabetes patients. This is not right. Obesity is just as valid of a medical reason and a great upstream cause for a lot of other health issues.

[@rockythefreak]

don't see where she asked you for yoir input on her health. weird to say this to a stranger unprompted. you wouldn't say this to a random person at a store.

[@OriginalMindTrick]

​@@rockythefreak The only input here that doesn't add any value to the conversation is yours.

[@plamenivanov2696]

@@rockythefreak Random people at the store don't walk barely clothed squishing their hanging guts telling us to see what a health body looks like. They also don't go to the manager to complain the word diet or low calorie on the products is triggering their ED. They also don't go around explain how it's a mental health issue they're being obese. There's a slight bit of difference you see.

[@dellerbe11710]

There is a HUGE difference between being an Olympic athlete and actually being fit. These ppl are 100% athletes in their sport. A large number of them are not fit. Being fit is being able to run a mile without stopping, being able to do ONE pull up at least and that list goes on. In the end I’m just saying don’t try to compare the 2 bc ones is an overall while the other is learning one thing

[@sportybeth]

You just tried to claim Olympic athletes aren’t fit 😂😂 omg. You alone don’t decide what defines fitness bro.

[@dellerbe11710]

@@sportybethdo you not read your comments everyone is saying the same thing as me. You really think someone that can’t run, swim, jump, do simple body weight movements are fit?

[@k1ngv1per70]

@@sportybeth What he is trying to say is the being an athlete doesn't mean you are fit. An athlete especially at the Olympic level or professional level for that matter means you are functional to that specific sport - Heavy weight lifters or Strongmen are not necessarily fit or healthy. It really comes down to what you want as an individual - do you want to be healthy? do you want to me very strong? Do you want to be both? The average person really just needs to focus on overall health and vitality - sometimes being fit can be a part of that, sometimes not. It really all depends. In the end, everyone should just want to be be healthy - from there you can go into different areas

[@ErikDoesStuff1711]

The fact you’ve put this video together, acknowledging the fact that the strongest athletes tend to be ‘larger’, and then a couple of days later made a short claiming that ‘Mass moves mass is wrong’ says it all really.

[@sportybeth]

Fat doesn’t lift weight stupid 🙃

[@k1ngv1per70]

@@sportybeth the heavier your bodyweight, the more you will be able to lift... the heavier you are the more leverage you have... now that don't mean you will be a Heavy superman and there is a thing called relative strength...but mass will move mass and a heavier bodyweight will of course allow for some heavier lifts

[@zezima420]

@@sportybeth damn

[@edarmstrong7197]

I once was a bit prejuidiced against fatter people, until I was given a 300 pound apprentice who could move heavy weight on the job site with ease.

[@frankquinn6872]

What I find interesting is how "fitness" can be interpreted in so many different ways. I can run a sub 20 min 5k, do 10 body weight pull ups and 50 press ups but can barely swim one length of a 25m pool. Does this mean I am "fit"? In some ways yes, in some ways no. Regarding the various body shapes of Olympic athletes, some events e.g. shot put, hammer, require a certain body type to generate sufficient power if someone is going to be competitive. Irrespective of body shape, what we can say is almost everyone competing in the Olympic games is in a tiny minority of people in the world who can compete at that level and is therefore undoubtedly elite.

[@azmodanpc]

None of the rowing athletes look obese or overweight. Especially the lightweight category. It's the weight lifters, shot putters. Name me a winter olympic athlete that looks like Tess Holiday.

[@sportybeth]

The rowing athletes still don’t look like fitness models. Most rowers would be in the obese category for muscle mass and rowers eat an absolute ton of food

[@dellerbe11710]

@@sportybeththe fitness models don’t event fit in that category. It’s only calculates height to weight. You can be 230 5’10” lean all muscle under 8% body and still be obese on the BMI chart.

[@divine_khemi]

@@azmodanpc that’s not true seen a bigger girl teaching row class and she’s a beast

[@azmodanpc]

@@divine_khemi Yeah but on average I've only seen lightly overweight athletes at the Olympic level (in the heavyweight category). Obese olympic champions are extremely rare. Some lightweight athletes look positively starved and look more similar to marathon runners.

[@Cheyscrochetshop]

I appreciate your channel so much ❤ I’ve lost weight bc of a health issue and with the general public telling me I look great I can feel my disordered thoughts creeping back in. BUT IM SICK. I don’t want to be this thin and I just can’t understand why people compliment me for literally being ill.

[@sportybeth]

I’m so sorry you’ve been experiencing that ❤️❤️

[@joannab1692]

Thank you for the video and info! And your eye color is gorgeous! They look like clear gems. 🎉

[@sportybeth]

Aww thank you!!

[@MagicandPastaTrading]

Great video! 🙏🏽

[@sportybeth]

Thank you 🙌

[@dellerbe11710]

Ilona Mahar is fit Li Wenwen is not fit

[@katiemai1905]

I watched a ton of your shorts but your longer videos are unexpectedly intriguing and appealing 💕 Thank you for creating content for us while being busy as a new mom 🥹

[@sportybeth]

Aww thank you that means so much!!

[@Hadleys-comet]

Good content! Thanks for spreading the body acceptance message

[@AverageAlien]

Lifting weights doesn't make you fit or healthy. Just finding excuses to be gluttonous and lazy. Only running counts

[@dellerbe11710]

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[@esorybur]

Imagine thinking one form of exercise was the only beneficial form of exercise. Come on, this information is two clicks away.

[@esorybur]

Love your IG content, but longer form?! Even better. Thank you for promoting the messages that you do ❤

[@sportybeth]

Aww thank you!!

[@gnshuicho]

I appreciate your video; I hope more people can see that body shape and size is not related to health. I like your points about unhealthy practices athletes engage in.

[@gur262]

That's a LIE. Body shape and size are related to health. 123 kg 180cm me probably was still healthier than some chain smoking drunkard, sure sure. I also was strong and could cycle 60km with relative ease. Maybe my blood pressure could have been worse but it wasn't good. 20 kg lost and my blood pressure is fine. This is not an anecdote of one, this is what happens, to all kinds of people. No healthy person of any height is 140+ kg.

[@sportybeth]

Yeees! Thank you!

[@k1ngv1per70]

shape and size can 100% be related to Health - that is not up to debate. Now being an athlete in a specific sport does require different sizes.

[@gnshuicho]

@@k1ngv1per70 okay where’s your citation for asserting that as a fact?

[@k1ngv1per70]

@@gnshuicho there are countless studies showing disease such as heart disease, diabetes and others can be directly corelated to bodyweight...simply being overweight can increase the chance of heart disease by 28%. That isn't just my opinion but findings from countless studies. You can certainly feel free to look for studies that show the opposite if you want though. Health is one of the few things we actually have a great degree of control over. Healthy eating habits regular exercise can not only drastically increase your overall health but also fix many issues. And the point about sport specific is true too...Power Lifters, strongman and Yes even Olympians who in certain sports are much larger will and can have health issues that can be correlated to their size. They are still athletes yes, but it will still Ring true.