You Don't Have to Earn the Right to Feel Good in Your Body

The fitness industry has a bit of a problem.

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Walk into most gyms, scroll through most fitness accounts, sit through most sales pitches, and you'll hear the same message, over and over: you need to lose weight. That your body, as it is right now, is the problem to be solved. That once you hit some magic number on the scale, then you'll be worthy of feeling good.

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We don't buy that. Not even a little.

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At Deep Roots Fitness, we believe in loving your body (the one you have right now, today) regardless of its size. And not in a fluffy, motivational-poster kind of way. We mean it practically, literally, in how we talk to you and how we coach you.

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Here's the truth: there is no cookie-cutter "perfect" body. There never was. The size and shape that's right for you at 15 looks different at 35, and different again at 65. Your body is supposed to change. It's supposed to carry you through a life that's full of things: trails, grandkids, kayaks, gardens, snowshoes, late nights, hard seasons, good ones.

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The goal isn't to look a certain way. The goal is to be capable. To be healthy. To be able to do all the things you actually want to do.

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So when people come to us and say I need to lose weight, we listen and then we ask a few more questions. Because more often than not, what people are really describing isn't a weight problem. It's a strength problem. A cardiovascular problem. They're winded going up stairs. Their back hurts. They feel soft in a way that doesn't feel like them. And here's the thing: building muscle and building a stronger heart will address every single one of those things. Muscle burns fat. Muscle makes you feel powerful and capable in your own skin. A strong cardiovascular system gives you energy you forgot you could have.

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Does this mean you're wrong for wanting to lose body fat? Absolutely not. If that's a goal that matters to you, we'll help you work toward it: intelligently, sustainably, without shame. But it should never be the price of admission for feeling good about yourself. It should never be the thing standing between you and actually showing up to your life.

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So let us say it clearly:

Rock the bikini. Train without a shirt on. Wear the shorts. Show up as you are, right now, in whatever body brought you here today. Nobody in this building is going to look at you sideways.

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The only thing we'll ever judge you on here?

Squat depth. 😄