basically i thought i shouldn't lift or even exercise particularly hard as a teenager because it would be too off-brand. fucking hell
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the brand i was trying to cultivate was like "fun absentminded professor" basically. i played up stuff like not knowing how to iron my clothes or do a bunch of other practical things. it was a very popular bit in college i gotta say
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I was the opposite - I did exercise a lot in high school and ever since there's this big dissonance between other people seeing me as an inshape guy and my self-identified brand being not-inshape nerd.
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Yeh I had a similar attitude due to a kind of aesthetic opposition to jockishness
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This is super common.
Usually manifests as “I don’t want to look like Arnie lol.”
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When I was a teenager, I rationalized that I didn’t want big muscles because it would limit my range of motion