The replies are fascinatingly deeply engaged with the topic. There’s no bigger modern religion than personal fitness/bodyastempleism (somaticism?). Usually when I ask questions in poll-form, few bother to elaborate or offer ‘other’ options in replies. Here, there are many.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1337216958840770561 …
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Amateur nerdery without a team of coaches, doctors, physiotherapists, and nutritionists attending to you has on,y recently become truly possible. Before, the best the untalented could do was read a book or two, get into some fad, and hope for a mentor.
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2010: old-fashioned jocks/cheerleaders in institutional body-culture settings (sports, modeling, military) 2014: crackpot fringe of nerds 2016: broscience quantified self n=1 sketchiness 2020: genuine amateur science nerdery based but with strong religious overtones
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yes - was more of a collaboration between nerdy coach/support staff and jock-ish athlete.
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Backwards. Pro/institutional support was terrible in the English world until recently. We laboured under industrial/agricultural/macho fug until the wave of ex-Soviets brought scientific modernism.
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