Why Be On a Fitness Team?
I am often asked, “why be on a fitness team, when this is an individual sport?”. I agree, this is an individual sport! When it comes down to show time, it is you, and you alone that is standing on that stage in 6 inch heels wearing the tiniest swimsuit decently possible. You are up there putting yourself, and your body on the line. You have trained, dieted, and sacrificed for weeks on end and now stand waiting for 5-6 other people to “judge” you and tell you just where you rank next to all these other lovely competitors. You are the only one that can choose to go to the gym every day, eat the diet, spend the money, sacrifice the social life and sometimes friends and family, just for that one day to sparkle and shine on that stage. But, I also think that this is really a team sport in which you can gain so much from being on a team that …show more content…
I just want to bring perspective to why I decided to form a team, and why it has been so successful for me and my teammates. In this sport, unless you have lived it yourself, no one else can ever truly appreciate the lows and highs, the sacrifices, the mood swings, the doubts , the fears, the anxiety, the pleasure, the intensity, and the list go on, of what we as competitors go through in preparation for the “big day”! We are in an elite group of people that most do not, and cannot, understand. So, to have a team of girls that truly “get it”, is something that I have grown to love and cherish. It is a sisterhood that supports each other and lift each other up. I am constantly amazed at how encouraging my girls are with one another, even though they know it could come down to just a few of them standing side by side on that stage waiting for 1st or 2nd place, pro card or no pro card, they continue to support and cheer each other on when the going gets
I am often asked, “why be on a fitness team, when this is an individual sport?”. I agree, this is an individual sport! When it comes down to show time, it is you, and you alone that is standing on that stage in 6 inch heels wearing the tiniest swimsuit decently possible. You are up there putting yourself, and your body on the line. You have trained, dieted, and sacrificed for weeks on end and now stand waiting for 5-6 other people to “judge” you and tell you just where you rank next to all these other lovely competitors. You are the only one that can choose to go to the gym every day, eat the diet, spend the money, sacrifice the social life and sometimes friends and family, just for that one day to sparkle and shine on that stage. But, I also think that this is really a team sport in which you can gain so much from being on a team that …show more content…
I just want to bring perspective to why I decided to form a team, and why it has been so successful for me and my teammates. In this sport, unless you have lived it yourself, no one else can ever truly appreciate the lows and highs, the sacrifices, the mood swings, the doubts , the fears, the anxiety, the pleasure, the intensity, and the list go on, of what we as competitors go through in preparation for the “big day”! We are in an elite group of people that most do not, and cannot, understand. So, to have a team of girls that truly “get it”, is something that I have grown to love and cherish. It is a sisterhood that supports each other and lift each other up. I am constantly amazed at how encouraging my girls are with one another, even though they know it could come down to just a few of them standing side by side on that stage waiting for 1st or 2nd place, pro card or no pro card, they continue to support and cheer each other on when the going gets