A Healthy Body
Mark Tennant I am not a bodybuilder, nor am I a D-1 athlete. I do not have a six-pack, and I can do no more than a grand total of twenty-two pushups. (I just verified that number, and my elbow popped every time.) However, though I am not in Olympic shape, I am in good health and fitness. I work out through dance for 2-3 hours every day, plank for a minute each morning, and try to eat with a balance of cottage cheese, Caesar salads, leftover Zaxbys fries, and Cadbury mini eggs. What I'm getting at here is that my body is relatively healthy. Lots of people want to have a healthy body. Girls want the spring break bikini bod! Guys want to be jacked so that maybe that chick will go to prom with them. Moms want to lose that baby fat from three pregnancies ten years ago. Dads keep saying they'll go on a diet, then eat midnight peanut butter and jelly. Almost everyone claims to want to get in shape. Thousands of people set fitness as a New Year's resolution. Very few people, howeve...













