On Saturday, my hubbie and I went to the BC Bodybuilding and Fitness show in Vancouver.

I love a good show. We go every year. It keeps me motivated, and I appreciate the hard work that goes into creating those shapely, tight physiques on stage.

Makes me want to compete again. In fact, I think I will! For my 50th. One last kick at the can!

Now bodybuilding naysayers will say they don’t like the look (you only look like that at contest time!), or the huge muscles (they’re not that big actually, you’re  just extremely lean so everything pops out), or the amount of steroids they use (give me a break – people think everyone is on steroids, even me…at 105 pounds!).

I hate to tell you this, but ladies, I’ve been training you in the methods of bodybuilding for years: my Lift n Lose program, my Keep it Up program, and my on-line 10-Week Best Shape Challenge. And you love it! (And dare I say, you look great!)

Bodybuilding has such a negative connotation, but that’s what you do when you lift a little more than you’re comfortable with, and you eat a little fewer carbs. (In fact, bodybuilders wrote the book on clean-eating!).

Like all good things, the mainstream think they discovered it, and weight training is fast becoming known as the best way to lose fat, create shape, ward off disease, save joints, and cut the cravings. But sshhhhh, don’t call it bodybuilding! Call it anything else- functional, intervals, drop sets, body scultping, PX90…..you get my drift.

Weight training is so important for women’s physical, mental and emotional health that I stake my life, and my business, on it! And I’m doing very well with it! In fact, my current book is all about adopting the bodybuilding lifestyle, and how it’s the ONLY way to truly train and eat.

But don’t call it bodybuilding. What shall we call it? I know! Body Shaping!

A rose by any other name…..
karen

PS HLP Members - This Week on site!: Video upload under Road Trips- I visit the Red Barn Market and chat with head butcher Jason and learn about local meats! (And why choose local meats anyway?). Recipe upload - Summer Candies. Yum!

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