Everyone wants a killer body, don’t they?  If you Google search “how to get a killer body fast”, you’ll come up with 61,000,000 hits!  So obviously there are a lot of people trying to obtain the perfect beach body.  For years I’ve watched as trainers in my profession take money from desperate people, usually women, who are trying to get a body that would only be normal in a Barbie house.

Sadly, many in our society have allowed the airbrush artist to define how we should look.  The health editor of The Saturday Early Show on CBS, Petra Kolber, once told the audience that we can have the shoulders of Halle Berry.  All we have to do is lift weights the way she does.  These “experts” are quick to tell you what you want to hear but seem to be clueless when it comes to individual differences.  The width of our shoulders doesn’t come from dumbbell exercises Petra, it comes from genetics.  The length of my clavicals (the collar bone) will determine that much more than any exercise I do.

Similarly we are sold exercises that will lift our butt, shrink our gut, define our calves and build our bust.  I know many of you who have read my blogs before know that none of these can be accomplished with exercise, but nonetheless, we keep forking it over, hoping it just might work.  Well keep hoping.  That and five bucks will get you a Cinnamon Dolce Frappuccino® Light at Starbucks. 

What is it then that gives people the perfect body you ask?  Two things: genetics and plastic surgeons.  Sorry to disappoint.   If you are interested in a healthy body, a strong body, a body that isn’t overweight, then you might actually be able to meet your goals; but only if you are also interested in a lifetime of healthy eating and daily exercise.  Embrace and love who you are first, because you are perfectly made.  Then, instead of searching in vain for a killer body, try to live a healthy lifestyle so your body doesn’t kill you.