Celeste Rains-Turk; Celestial_Fit International and Building More than Just a Body
  • Home
  • Confessions of a Bikini Pro Podcast
  • Blog
  • Free Workshop to Overcome Mindless Eating
  • Free Competitor Card Deck
  • Free Food Relationship Program
  • FREE POST-SHOW BLUES COACHING SERIES
  • Food Relationship Healing & Discovery 1:1 Coaching Program
  • Testimonials
  • Work with Me
  • On Demand Mindset Coaching for Competitors
  • Live Events
  • Interviews / Features
  • Speaking
  • Social Media
    • Instagram
    • Facebook
    • YouTube
    • Pinterest
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
  • Feedback
  • Contact
  • Links
  • PODCAST WITH PURPOSE PROGRAM

Welcome to my Blog

I write a new blog almost daily! Feel free to comment, share, and connect with me! I love hearing from my readers!

Improvement Season Body Image Struggles

3/23/2021

0 Comments

 
During prep, you will usually start to see a trend of getting leaner, tighter, and smaller, as you get closer to your show day which then creates this association between heels, bikini, and check ins with looking tighter and smaller

In an off season you might check in or practice posing and think, "Oh my god, I don't look good at all. I don't look like a competitor. I look like a normal person just putting on a bikini and trying to pose. I don’t even look like I workout” and even though these things are probably not factual, the way it feels is so real!

I want you to know it's normal to have these emotional reactions given that you've been conditioned to see your body going smaller, getting tighter it’s natural to then feel a bit shocked when the opposite becomes true even if you’re “expecting it” because 94/100 of the last times you’ve checked in you’ve been getting leaner so now those 6 since your reverse or improvement season started are like the odd balls out and it can take time to get comfortable with the subtle growth that begins to happen

You’re not broken for thinking this way, it actually makes perfect sense why you would be!

There’s a lot more to this that I’ve discussed before too like positive reinforcements with the scale or measurements changing that we have to be mindful of too

But in this case, you need to become open to forming new associations in the environment of check-ins and posing, recognizing that even in off-season, when your body is getting bigger, you are still a competitor.

If anything, you’re even more of a bodybuilder because you’re committing to BUILDING, growing and improving while knowing you’ll have to go through a prep again in the future to reveal it all. Even if you’re not trying to build muscle it’s important to find homeostasis and give the body and mind rest so you can come back and strike!

if you obsess over getting “too fat” or “too big” or “too heavy” you could be inhibiting your potential

You're in a new phase, a growing season, which is an important part of the process, and your progress will be evident tin the future when you are doing your check-ins for another prep if you can get comfortable with all phases and see they’re ALL valuable and ALL serve a purpose

If you really are being diligent and doing your best, you're gonna be okay and you're gonna form a new association with your body and check-ins with consistency (not from avoiding anything!)
.
Having a positive body image will support you in treating your body (and yourself) positively which ultimately fuels your progress more than anything!

I encourage you to join the Build More than Just a Body community by becoming a member of my On Demand Mindset coaching platform that covers common struggles of competitors at your fingertips!

you can learn more and join now here:
www.celestial.fit/ondemand
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Celeste Rains-Turk
    Celestial_fit

    Fitness, health, life, wellness and personal related posts!

    As a thank you gift from me, I am giving away access to my Killer Confidence Course. You can get free access by clicking HERE

    Categories

    All
    Client Stories
    Competitor's Blog Series
    Food Freedom
    How To Love Yourself
    Personal
    Rants
    Recipes
    Who Am I?

    Archives

    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015

    RSS Feed

Privacy Policy
Disclaimer
Photos used under Creative Commons from Robert Gourley, Danijel J, Neeta Lind, Brian PDX, Stefano Merli, frankieleon, j_lai, Gudlyf, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. Fifth Fleet, Arya Ziai, SuperFantastic, Ruth and Dave
  • Home
  • Confessions of a Bikini Pro Podcast
  • Blog
  • Free Workshop to Overcome Mindless Eating
  • Free Competitor Card Deck
  • Free Food Relationship Program
  • FREE POST-SHOW BLUES COACHING SERIES
  • Food Relationship Healing & Discovery 1:1 Coaching Program
  • Testimonials
  • Work with Me
  • On Demand Mindset Coaching for Competitors
  • Live Events
  • Interviews / Features
  • Speaking
  • Social Media
    • Instagram
    • Facebook
    • YouTube
    • Pinterest
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
  • Feedback
  • Contact
  • Links
  • PODCAST WITH PURPOSE PROGRAM