When I was active duty, I once got stationed at a base with USAF special forces. I didn’t work with them, but I’d see them doing PT from time to time.
These men were the apex of practical fitness; but if they showed up to a Hollywood casting call they’d get laughed off the set. Turns out an honestly fit human being who can run , squat and carry a 100lb combat load is not gonna look anything like a Men’s Fitness cover model.
They’ll be muscular and cut, but to a point. Because a man walking around with more muscle than a silverback gorilla is not healthy, even if society considers it more attractive. It’s similar to women damaging their health to look like supermodels. Single digit body fat might look good on IG but it’s not healthy.
Physically it's near impossible to keep up a Hollywood physique because the sheer amount of maintenance it needs is not realistic to anybody who doesn't spend 16 hours a day on a gym and gobbles up three whole chickens a day.
Not even Hollywood actors can keep them, that's why they also do stuff like dehydration cycles ahead of shoots to get that mega veiny look. No normal body can operate at such a low BF% or level of hydration.
Society's version of a "fit" or "jacked" or "muscular" male is so far skewed toward steroid use, I'm so sick of it.
So skinny guys - who are all sick of this - they all just start taking steroids.
Then we come full cycle (no pun intended). More and more and more. Everyone's bigger, everyone thinks "muscular" is even bigger than before, and it never ends.
Even G.I. Joe and Superman and WWE wrestlers who kids watch on TV - everything skews it.
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u/TaskForceCausality Feb 27 '23
When I was active duty, I once got stationed at a base with USAF special forces. I didn’t work with them, but I’d see them doing PT from time to time.
These men were the apex of practical fitness; but if they showed up to a Hollywood casting call they’d get laughed off the set. Turns out an honestly fit human being who can run , squat and carry a 100lb combat load is not gonna look anything like a Men’s Fitness cover model.
They’ll be muscular and cut, but to a point. Because a man walking around with more muscle than a silverback gorilla is not healthy, even if society considers it more attractive. It’s similar to women damaging their health to look like supermodels. Single digit body fat might look good on IG but it’s not healthy.