The biggest myth that was debunked for me was the boys don’t like me myth. Specifically, how it changed the way I perceived having muscles and building strength. Though I no longer have any interest in crushing myself for time a la CrossFit anymore, I will always be thankful for the lessons the sport taught me. My perspective changed when I got into functional fitness and started competing in CrossFit. One friend employed what she called “the 3 S Rule,” meaning when she was overtaken by hunger pains, she did one of three things instead of eat: sleep, shower, or have sex.
Of course, it didn’t occur to me that many of them pretty much starved themselves in a seriously unhealthy way to make weight. They were the ones the men were into, I assumed. When I became a university rower, of course, I looked at the lightweight rowers with envy. When I was 18, 19, and even into my early 20s, this tape kept playing in my head. Boys will never like me because I’m not small enough.” The tape that started playing in my head after this moment was, “I’m too big.
One by one, boys plucked them away to dance, and I was left standing alone. I had no chance of being short and petite.Įnter my first dance after the 1995 Western Canadian gymnastics championships when I was 11 years old: The first slow song came on as I was standing with three of my gymnastics friends, who were half my size even then. Unfortunately, I come from a tall family of athletes. As an inevitable result, I was ingrained with the idea that short and small was better than big and tall.
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