Why we need to stop obsessing over perfection and embrace our normalcy

If you were born a few years ago, chances are you've learned that the ideal body is pretty specific: six to eight pack abs and muscles covering most of your body are supposed to bring you "the best sex of your life." Unfortunately, for those of us born in the last 15 years, that body is already outdated. And that's the point. If you're like most of us, your body is pretty normal. At least, based on the "ideal" bodies of yesteryear.

And as a result, we're falling behind at a rate that is both terrifying and incredibly frustrating. But there's also a very good reason for that: we're busy trying to achieve that outdated and impossible body. We spend hundreds of hours at gyms and in the woods hunting down the body that we think we "should" have. We spend thousands trying to get the specific kinds of "cures" for a variety of specific health problems that our parents and grandparents struggled with. Even when we achieve some level of success, we then spend additional years trying to maintain it. So it makes sense that all those months, years and decades of time are going into something that's entirely unsustainable -- trying to achieve perfection.

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But the more I look at the results I see in life and the more time I spend studying fitness, nutrition and human biology, the more I come to realize that none of it matters. You can't get the ideal body by spending all your energy trying to achieve it. That's like living your entire life by thinking that your house has to have all the square inches of a Pinterest dream before you will allow yourself to enjoy it in it's current state of construction. The best thing you can do for your body is get up, go outside, go to the gym and do a jump rope workout .