Reynolds Rap

The "New Look of Fitness" is Denial and Deceit!

Why is Nebraska Wesleyan’s Archways magazine promoting obesity with the cover story for Volume 21, Issue 2, “Fit for Hard Things: If You’re Convinced Fitness Has One Look – Look at the Life of Kanoa Greene”??

Kanoa Greene is not fit; she’s blatantly obese. Equally deceitful:

Obese people have the single greatest cost impact on health care expenses in the United States;

Life expectancy is reduced by as much as 20+ years for obese men and by 5 to 15 years for obese women;

Given Nebraska Wesleyan’s religious origin and its connection to the Methodist Church (https://www.nebrwesleyan.edu/about-nwu/methodist-connection), and affiliations with health care providers, as usual, even in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, morbidly overweight and obese people do not adhere to their religious commitment to scripture and to God:

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (KJV) 19 What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Oh, with deceitful craftiness, the article substitutes the word “obesity” with “bigger people” and “heavier people,” and “larger women,” while ignoring the relevance between obesity and diabetes and that Kanoa Greene became permanently blind in her right eye. What’s next? Does Archways magazine publish a follow-up story on Greene when she’s no longer able to surf because her legs are amputated due to diabetes??

As important as it is not to body-shame anyone due to a perceived physical anomaly (obesity, shortness, tallness, baldness, amputation, skin color, disfiguration, etc.), it’s just as bad to “sugar coat” the failure of a person to take responsibility for their own physical and mental health and fitness. As published in the article, Greene said, “I got to know so many incredibly smart women.” Unlike Greene, Smart women and men take responsibility for their circumstances, and they lead by example. The article provided absolutely no pre-and-or-post proof of Greene successfully and permanently managing her obesity. As with the perpetual obesity of Oprah Winfrey (http://www.tripoetry.com/Letters/reynoldsrap-obese.htm), sadly, Greene is yet another pathetic example of an obese person who, at best, only encourages mediocrity. Keep in mind, four-(4) of five-(45) adults in the U.S. is morbidly overweight or obese, and for people of color, especially Black people like Greene, it’s only getting worse.

The article mentions COVID-19, but failed to briefly detail the serious impact of COVID-19 on both obese people, and people of color, especially Black, Native American, and Pacific Islanders (http://www.tripoetry.com/Letters/reynoldsrap-covid19.htm):

FACT: 78% of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the US are overweight or obese, CDC finds https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/78-of-covid-19-patients-hospitalized-in-the-us-overweight-or-obese-cdc-finds.html

FACT: If all Americans had died of COVID-19 at the same rate as White Americans, 21,200 Black Americans, and 10,000 Latino Americans, and 1,000 Indigenous Americans, and 70 Pacific Islander Americans would still be alive. https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race

Despite the aforementioned facts, Nebraska Wesleyan’s Archways magazine elected to promote obesity with Volume 21, Issue #2 cover story for Archways Magazine, and in this regard, frankly, they did Ms. Greene a disservice:

Where’s data showing Greene’s personal achievement in physical agility, strength, flexibility, weight loss, etc.?

Given the plethora of “plus size” and morbidly obese women posted on Greene’s Instagram.com site (https://www.instagram.com/kanoagreene/), where’s evidence of any success reducing overt obesity of her clientele?

Where’s actual evidence of Greene’s record of accomplishment in any fitness activity? Like Greene, I’ve also been immediately responsible for corporate recruitment, but for considerably longer, for forty-(40+) years.

However, unlike Greene, I’ve been successfully leading all kinds of people in health (http://www.reynos.com/bio.htm#Benefits), fitness (http://www.tripoetry.com/Fitness/awards.htm), and wellness (http://www.reynos.com/bio.htm#Wellness) by example for forty-(40+) years, while also being a fifth-generation Methodist preacher’s kid (http://www.reynos.com/Resume/DO-YOU-PRACTICE-WHAT-YOU%20PREACH-TR.pdf). I welcome an opportunity to contribute content to Archways magazine that is consistent with NWU’s adaptation of its new Master of Athletic Training program. Is Greene’s “brand” consistent with the “brand” promoted by NWU’s Master of Athletic Training?

Here are two observations:

If you're a man, when you look directly down and you cannot see your penis because your gut is blocking your view - you're MORBIDLY OBESE. Likewise, if you're gut is so big that you're even unable to reach, to touch your own penis, again, you're MORBIDLY OBESE.

If you're a woman, and you're not pregnant, when you look down between your breasts and you're unable to see your pubic hair because your gut is blocking your view - you're MORBIDLY OBESE.

Yes, fitness does have more than one look, but “fitness” definitely does not look like Kanoa Greene.

I welcome your feedback.

Trip Reynolds
trip.reynolds@yahoo.com

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