• 011011@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    The US really is the nation of extremes.

    You’ll go on a morning walk and see women in their 70s who can run laps around you but drive 20 minutes to Walmart and see several people in their 50s on mobility scooters.

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    That is one thing I noticed on a recent trip to Europe, there weren’t that many joggers. In most major cities on the US, especially in parks and scenic places, you’ll see a fair amount of joggers, but didn’t really see any in Europe besides barcelona.

    It seems in America were either training for a marathon or a hot dog eating competition.

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      I wish Hollywood was more forthright about the use of exogenous anabolic compounds, as they have crafted a body image that is tough to live up to without using steroids, especially for older men. There are a few that are open about it, like Alan Richson, but it is almost never mentioned.

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              What are you talking about. Fitness implies some form of athletic ability. You can’t be athletic and fat. These are two diametrically opposite things.

              I know there is that health at every size movement fat people are trying to make into a thing, but that’s just fat people trying to pretend being fat is ok. That will not make them healthy or fit.

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                There are a lot of olympic athletes that excel at their field yet are fat in the colloquial sense.

                Being fat is ok, they don’t have to pretend.