Does being physically fit give you a sense of superiority?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. But I do enjoy looking at myself when I have a good body.

Honestly, being fit is really easy. It's just requires you to eat right and workout consistently. It's like going to school, in which getting good grades just means you need to do your homework every day/week.

It's not hard, and I find it odd that people have such a hard time doing it consistently. I guess this sentence makes me sound like I feel superior, but I assure you that I do not, because I don't find that being physically fit is difficult. And so I don't feel superior for doing something easy.

It's not easy for many - for some reason they have more of an urge to eat and its harder to resist feelings of hunger. While I do agree anyone can exercise and eat healthy foods - but to lose weight you do need to restrict somewhat and eat less than you're used to and that's difficult for many people.

So these people will be a fit 145 pounds at 5'8 rather than 135 pounds at 5'8. They won't be 215 lbs at 5'8.

When you talk about how hard it is to lose weight, you have to think about how you got fat and unfit in the first place. It's usually because you had a long period of no exercise and 10+ years of eating poorly. Thus, when you want to lose weight, you start doing these crazy crash diets like "I'm going to eat 1200 calories of popcorn only from 8 am to 12 noon for the rest of my life" and immediately give up after 3 days. The trick here is to honestly figure out what a healthy lifestyle actually means, and try to emulate it the best you can. Then, over time, you will actually become healthy and fit because you're developing the right habits.

It's only "hard" when people set themselves up for failure by thinking it would only take a few months to undo years of unhealthy habits. To use the school analogy again, it's like expecting to get a perfect SAT score after a summer college prep program when you've been blowing off every subject since middle school. You can take the SATs and get a good score eventually, but you're only going to improve so much in 12 weeks.

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Anonymous wrote:No. But I do enjoy looking at myself when I have a good body.

Honestly, being fit is really easy. It's just requires you to eat right and workout consistently. It's like going to school, in which getting good grades just means you need to do your homework every day/week.

It's not hard, and I find it odd that people have such a hard time doing it consistently. I guess this sentence makes me sound like I feel superior, but I assure you that I do not, because I don't find that being physically fit is difficult. And so I don't feel superior for doing something easy.

+1. I’ve been physically fit my entire life, and no discipline has been needed. I’m just living life normally. I too don’t know why or even how people struggle so much that they feel like the need lots of discipline to stay physically fit, but it definitely isn’t a sign of superiority.

+2. I’m in Finland right now, and nearly everyone I see looks physically fit. Lots of people biking, walking, swimming, etc. I find it hard to believe that this is the result of some kind of moral superiority or excess discipline. It’s just that the society here has made it easy to be physically fit.

If you were mentally fit, you’d know that it is *significantly harder* to be physically fit in the United States than it is in many European countries. Our lifestyles are not even close to the same. So in Finland it might not take any effort or discipline, but HERE it absolutely does.

That being said, on a population level you’re basically making the case that their lifestyle is… what’s the word? Superior?

The original post is about whether you feel superior, not whether you are superior. If you get an Olympic gold medal and your friend gets an Olympic silver medal, you are superior. However, you're not egotistic so you don't feel superior.

Here, people in Finland are healthier so they are superior, but they probably don't feel superior because they're not really trying very hard.

We’re not in Finland. HERE in the United States people DO have to try hard to achieve the same results that Finns do NOT have to try hard to achieve. This is really not a complicated point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. But I do enjoy looking at myself when I have a good body.

Honestly, being fit is really easy. It's just requires you to eat right and workout consistently. It's like going to school, in which getting good grades just means you need to do your homework every day/week.

It's not hard, and I find it odd that people have such a hard time doing it consistently. I guess this sentence makes me sound like I feel superior, but I assure you that I do not, because I don't find that being physically fit is difficult. And so I don't feel superior for doing something easy.

NP. You, like many other respondents in this thread, know intuitively that you’re not supposed to feel superior. But you do feel superior, AND YOU SHOULD. And I say that as someone who is in okay shape but not particularly fit. It takes effort, consistency, and discipline to be physically fit, especially as we age, and as you pointed out, most (American) adults simply will not do it. So why on Earth shouldn’t the responsible hard workers feel superior? They objectively are, at least in some ways.

PP here. I don't feel superior because it's not difficult for me personally to be fit. I found the workout routine that works for me and I live next to the gym. I found the diet that works for me and I make enough money to buy what I like to eat. I mostly work from home and can eat what I want from the fridge and not be tempted by foods from work. This isn't something to brag about, personally.

For some reason, I sense that you would find yourself feeling inferior to people who are fit. In some ways, I think this is like being jealous of someone who comes from family money. They might be fitter than you simply because they got lucky and figured out what works for them sooner than you, or just have more time than you because they have a nanny that takes care of everything.

I hope you are able to figure out a workout routine, or some form of exercise (i.e., tennis, pickleball, gymnastics) that you really enjoy, and you can fast track yourself to being fit as well. In addition, I hope you figure out easy simple healthy recipes that you like eating. Good luck!

Your entire post is nothing but bragging. Are you from one of these younger generations who think that words mean whatever you decide they mean because you feel like that’s what they should mean?

I can say that I absolutely feel intellectually superior to just about every person I interact with on DCUM. Y’all are a bunch of morons, to be frank.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It makes me feel superior over my former self! It's hard work to stay in shape...

No it’s not 🐷

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. But I do enjoy looking at myself when I have a good body.

Honestly, being fit is really easy. It's just requires you to eat right and workout consistently. It's like going to school, in which getting good grades just means you need to do your homework every day/week.

It's not hard, and I find it odd that people have such a hard time doing it consistently. I guess this sentence makes me sound like I feel superior, but I assure you that I do not, because I don't find that being physically fit is difficult. And so I don't feel superior for doing something easy.

NP. You, like many other respondents in this thread, know intuitively that you’re not supposed to feel superior. But you do feel superior, AND YOU SHOULD. And I say that as someone who is in okay shape but not particularly fit. It takes effort, consistency, and discipline to be physically fit, especially as we age, and as you pointed out, most (American) adults simply will not do it. So why on Earth shouldn’t the responsible hard workers feel superior? They objectively are, at least in some ways.

PP here. I don't feel superior because it's not difficult for me personally to be fit. I found the workout routine that works for me and I live next to the gym. I found the diet that works for me and I make enough money to buy what I like to eat. I mostly work from home and can eat what I want from the fridge and not be tempted by foods from work. This isn't something to brag about, personally.

For some reason, I sense that you would find yourself feeling inferior to people who are fit. In some ways, I think this is like being jealous of someone who comes from family money. They might be fitter than you simply because they got lucky and figured out what works for them sooner than you, or just have more time than you because they have a nanny that takes care of everything.

I hope you are able to figure out a workout routine, or some form of exercise (i.e., tennis, pickleball, gymnastics) that you really enjoy, and you can fast track yourself to being fit as well. In addition, I hope you figure out easy simple healthy recipes that you like eating. Good luck!

Your entire post is nothing but bragging. Are you from one of these younger generations who think that words mean whatever you decide they mean because you feel like that’s what they should mean?

I can say that I absolutely feel intellectually superior to just about every person I interact with on DCUM. Y’all are a bunch of morons, to be frank.

It’s easier to be fat and gaslight yourself into thinking you are intelligent than to be fit and actually intelligent. Oink oink 🐷

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. But I do enjoy looking at myself when I have a good body.

Honestly, being fit is really easy. It's just requires you to eat right and workout consistently. It's like going to school, in which getting good grades just means you need to do your homework every day/week.

It's not hard, and I find it odd that people have such a hard time doing it consistently. I guess this sentence makes me sound like I feel superior, but I assure you that I do not, because I don't find that being physically fit is difficult. And so I don't feel superior for doing something easy.

NP. You, like many other respondents in this thread, know intuitively that you’re not supposed to feel superior. But you do feel superior, AND YOU SHOULD. And I say that as someone who is in okay shape but not particularly fit. It takes effort, consistency, and discipline to be physically fit, especially as we age, and as you pointed out, most (American) adults simply will not do it. So why on Earth shouldn’t the responsible hard workers feel superior? They objectively are, at least in some ways.

PP here. I don't feel superior because it's not difficult for me personally to be fit. I found the workout routine that works for me and I live next to the gym. I found the diet that works for me and I make enough money to buy what I like to eat. I mostly work from home and can eat what I want from the fridge and not be tempted by foods from work. This isn't something to brag about, personally.

For some reason, I sense that you would find yourself feeling inferior to people who are fit. In some ways, I think this is like being jealous of someone who comes from family money. They might be fitter than you simply because they got lucky and figured out what works for them sooner than you, or just have more time than you because they have a nanny that takes care of everything.

I hope you are able to figure out a workout routine, or some form of exercise (i.e., tennis, pickleball, gymnastics) that you really enjoy, and you can fast track yourself to being fit as well. In addition, I hope you figure out easy simple healthy recipes that you like eating. Good luck!

Your entire post is nothing but bragging. Are you from one of these younger generations who think that words mean whatever you decide they mean because you feel like that’s what they should mean?

I can say that I absolutely feel intellectually superior to just about every person I interact with on DCUM. Y’all are a bunch of morons, to be frank.

It’s easier to be fat and gaslight yourself into thinking you are intelligent than to be fit and actually intelligent. Oink oink 🐷

Truth

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Anonymous wrote:No. But I do enjoy looking at myself when I have a good body.

Honestly, being fit is really easy. It's just requires you to eat right and workout consistently. It's like going to school, in which getting good grades just means you need to do your homework every day/week.

It's not hard, and I find it odd that people have such a hard time doing it consistently. I guess this sentence makes me sound like I feel superior, but I assure you that I do not, because I don't find that being physically fit is difficult. And so I don't feel superior for doing something easy.

+1. I’ve been physically fit my entire life, and no discipline has been needed. I’m just living life normally. I too don’t know why or even how people struggle so much that they feel like the need lots of discipline to stay physically fit, but it definitely isn’t a sign of superiority.

+2. I’m in Finland right now, and nearly everyone I see looks physically fit. Lots of people biking, walking, swimming, etc. I find it hard to believe that this is the result of some kind of moral superiority or excess discipline. It’s just that the society here has made it easy to be physically fit.

If you were mentally fit, you’d know that it is *significantly harder* to be physically fit in the United States than it is in many European countries. Our lifestyles are not even close to the same. So in Finland it might not take any effort or discipline, but HERE it absolutely does.

That being said, on a population level you’re basically making the case that their lifestyle is… what’s the word? Superior?

The original post is about whether you feel superior, not whether you are superior. If you get an Olympic gold medal and your friend gets an Olympic silver medal, you are superior. However, you're not egotistic so you don't feel superior.

Here, people in Finland are healthier so they are superior, but they probably don't feel superior because they're not really trying very hard.

We’re not in Finland. HERE in the United States people DO have to try hard to achieve the same results that Finns do NOT have to try hard to achieve. This is really not a complicated point.

There are plenty of people in poor metabolic health in Finland, particularly outside the cities idiots on this board happen to visit during vacation or for business. We are glad you were at the airport once.

Meanwhile, the foregoing is just part of the big pile of excuses people make. 🐷

[Anonymous]

If I'm being honest, yes it does.

I'm a 44yo male that can lift heavy weights.

I'm embarrassed to admit this but it does make me feel superior when friends or neighbors call me over to help lift/move things bc they can't do it on their own.

Or when I got into a bench press competition with boys from the HS football team. They beat all the other dads. I was the only Dad to beat them. (# of reps at 225)

It's so stupid. And its petty. But yes, it does make me feel superior

[Anonymous]

So how many reps of 225 does it take to beat hs football team?

I cannot see many HS kids doing more than 10.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So how many reps of 225 does it take to beat hs football team?

I cannot see many HS kids doing more than 10.

If the PP lives in Texas or something very likely football players in HS are benching 300 (which is about 10 reps of 225).

Statistically speaking - about - little more than one kid per 1000 in hs can bench 300.

In the general population 1 in 100,000 can even bench 225.
300lb maybe 1 in a million.

So if you are putting up 300lb you literally are one in a million or so and that would make most people a little arrogant. It is kind of cool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So how many reps of 225 does it take to beat hs football team?

I cannot see many HS kids doing more than 10.

I am 57 and can do 13. Does that make me feel superior -- not really but I do feel I could kick and ass of most people if needed -- that is a good feeling. At DC's private high school the kids with the football commits can do 10-15. No elites there. I would think you would see a Texas or ND or Miami commit for offensive line doing 20.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not really. If anything, it makes me sad that some of the people around me don’t put in any effort at all - despite having the time - and suffer the consequences. People have this antiquated view that life after 40 is all down hill and you are supposed to fall apart. That’s BS of course and it makes me sad.

I’m running my own race (literally, i am competing against my own times, percentages, prior years, etc…)

You are my favorite human in this thread.

[Anonymous]

I don’t feel superior at all. Frankly, there is not that much to feel smug about. It doesn’t even guarantee that I will live longer, because there are so many other factors at play. Stress levels, genetics, luck..

Also, I know few people whose life I envy and admire a bit, because I think it is meaningful and fulfilled. Only one of them is fit. But they have other qualities, that speak to me much more.

[Anonymous]

"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do feel superior. I take care of myself. I'm going to live longer.

Longevity takes in a lot of factors. Genetics, stress levels, toxicity of environment, luck..

It’s not even necessarily beneficial to be skinny. Some studies have shown otherwise.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11051237/