Does being physically fit give you a sense of superiority?

[Anonymous]

Do you feel like you are better than everyone because you are fit?

[Anonymous]

Are you not proud of the results of something you have worked hard for? Hours of practicing piano, or finishing writing a novel, or yes, hard training in a gym. Do I think any of that makes me "better" than anyone else? No, but I am proud of my achievements. If that makes people feel "inferior", then that's on them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you feel like you are better than everyone because you are fit?

Well, no. I don’t think about other people, much less care about them.

[Anonymous]

I think I can outrun the slow people in a zombie apocalypse. That's why i have a small smug smile on my face all the time

[Anonymous]

It did for DH. He admitted he never took any of my health advice to heart because "You couldn't evenn run."
I still can't but got two knee replacements after 40 years of bone on bone due to car running over me as a kid.
He can't run now btw due to spinal issues.

[Anonymous]

I know I look better. Does not make me “better” than anyone else, though.

[Anonymous]

I do love showing off my arms when they’re toned. But no I don’t feel superior.

[Anonymous]

Being strong and capable, yes. Being hot and skinny, no. But in the immortal words of Mark Rippetoe, “A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.” Except for a woman.

[Anonymous]

No, but I feel damn good.

[Anonymous]

Nope. I feel light and quick and capable of anything. I see a hill and think "Let's f***ing GOOOO!" instead of "ugh, how can I get out of that/I'm going to sweat/will there be anywhere to sit down".

When I used to eat poorly I felt sluggish and a tiny bit nauseous all the time and didn't even realize - when I changed to eating healthy I felt my body thrumming with energy and it was a very distinct difference.

Sometimes I feel a little sorry for someone clearly out of shape, that they don't get to experience what I do. But I don't think I'm a more worthy person or better than them. Just lucky to be going through life this way, and hope they get there somehow.

[Anonymous]

Yes, because I know I'm in the small percentage of the US population that's fit and strong and therefore superior to flabby weaklings.

[Anonymous]

Towards others? No, that never even crossed my mind. I like it when I can feel my muscles strengthening, and I feel proud of myself when I work out.

[Anonymous]

Of course not.
It gives everybody else a sense of my superiority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Towards others? No, that never even crossed my mind. I like it when I can feel my muscles strengthening, and I feel proud of myself when I work out.

Same. Nothing to do with anyone else.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes- depends on the scenario.

Out of shape people at the gym wearing outfits to display their rolls of fat or (my favorite) guys in fitted tanks with a gut so large they cannot see their feet but strut around like they are built like Thor from the movies or something I cannot help but judge.

At the beach this week I felt inferior to a couple of ladies with better abs than me, but they were the only two out probably a few hundred people on the beach I saw.

In typical life outside of those types of scenarios I do not think about it.