Why is modern society obsessed with gym?

It's a cope for gymcels. Probably 90% - 95% of men who go to the gym religiously still won't ever get laid

Personally I go to build up strength and endurance, for when the SHTF. I'll be ready to deal with feral shitskins and rape women

tons, usually, because old age is the time when your muscles waste due to lack of activity due to age. you may now kill yourself groyper

This. I'm a virgin but the only reason I lift is so that I have gorilla nigger strength so I can smash sthiskin skulls my clapping them

how does a brain fit in that skull?

How much working out do you think 110 year old Japanese women do?

Compare groups of people who moderately work out into old age with those who sit around. The latter is not outliving the former.

he's a groyper don't bother
this same swede has been spamming the catty with AF/groyper threads for the past 5 weeks

tons, usually

A japanese woman over 80 has never set a foot inside a gym, nor has she ever lifted a weight.

Also, why would I be a gr*yper? I'm not American, dumbfuck

You feel better, get your hormones in check, are healthier, don't look weak.

The gym is the replacement of the physical activity lost when men became sedentary.

Just make sure you do it for yourself and not someone else

Why are you on the phone and on pol? That stresses your body.

Stress isn't inherently bad, it makes one stronger. Going to the gym builds discipline and healthy habits, it strengthens bones, and fixes some of the fucked up chemistry that people get from eating garbage and sitting on their ass.

If you think that it only stresses and ages you, you're simply too narrow minded or just pushing a narrative ignorantly. You really don't need to look far to see that you're wrong about it being a negative for pretty much anyone at any age

they become unhealthy because they push too far into the diminishing returns of muscle building
the "noob gains" are the amount of muscle nature intends you to have, which is why she gives them to you so easily. beyond that is the pointless and counterproductive stress.
and to get and maintain the noob gains is simple and takes very little time.

I don't like the way normies approach sport/gym. I switched to calisthenics, healthy light diet and work out on more useful skills than muh hypertrophy

Surrogate activities…

Because for plebs modern society doesn't encourage succes through intellectual achievements but throuhj looks and muscles.
De-evolution back to apes.

In modern industrial society, only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one’s physical needs. It is not surprising that modern society is full of surrogate activities. These include scientific work, athletic achievement, humanitarian work, artistic and literary creation, climbing the corporate ladder, acquiring wealth, and so forth. These are not pursued to satisfy biological needs but because people develop an emotional commitment to them. [...] The system controls these activities in the sense that people can only do what the system allows them to do

I see five excuses for why you're a fat fuck. Nobody cares.

every minute you spend in the gym is a minute spent not fixing the actual problems you have. it's rather ironic how it's shilled as making you strong whereas in reality it is a way to keep you weak.
on top of that, there's a whole industry of selling you supplements and gym toys of course.

Post physique fatty

It's not a GYM. It is a Lobster tank.

Body full of muscle

Head full of shit

They cry when they are thrown into the hot water

What’s the problem with this exactly?

Because stress is a stimulus for your body to get its ass up.
Resistance training increases strain on the bones who responds by thickening, directly counter-acting the loss of bone mass in older age.

Is there any other way to attract bitches if you don't lift and Are smeared with tattoos these days?

Jews

Dynamic contractions actually rejuvinates and softens muscle tissue. Calcified muscle tissue is the cause of a huge majority of pain. All the muscle bros I massage at work have super soft and nimble musculature. Working out is great for you but as with everything, if you do it for reasons connected to the ego it will only create suffering. Instead use training as a tool to keep your body healthy so you can ascend it into your true state as an immortal spiritual being merely animating a body. It just a ride after all

this and much more about cardio.it's much more enjoyable to go for one hour of jogg/an afternoon biking ,in the countryside ofc.
gym is a continuum of the "let's stay closed between 4 walls" ,i don't like it.

so that i can look and feel more chad and open up the possibility be able to lift things for money so that i can lift pretty girls on to the bed i will one day afford

Surrogate activities… tend to involve a high degree of specialization, which often means that the individual’s tasks are narrowly restricted and that he has little autonomy in how they are carried out. The system forces people to engage in these specialized tasks, thereby reducing their freedom.

For many if not most people, surrogate activities are less satisfying than the pursuit of real goals... that is, goals that people would want to attain even if their need for the power process were already fulfilled.

That is why some people get very serious about essentially trivial activities such as sports, or bridge, or chess, or arcane scholarly pursuits, whereas others... never attach enough importance to them to satisfy their need for the power process in that way.

The connection to non-surrogate activities (the ones which are absolutely critical to our survival) are remote from each individual, and yet absolutely critical for the group in its entirety. This 'stress' leads to a fracturing of society into two classes; the real ones who cling on and consolidate (people who have actual power or do real shit, neo-peasants producing things and neo-priests controlling things), and the fake ones who relinquish (wage slaves and lumpenproles doing retard shit in the fake economy and dying in fake wars). If you're happy with this state of affairs, then the answer to your question as stated is "nothing"

It's just a meme to convince zoomers to spend ungodly amounts of money on gym subscriptions, supplements and whatever else. Exercise is obviously essential but humans are supposed to be fast and lean with a lot of endurance, being some huge 300lb muscle monster is unnatural and in a traditional hunter-gatherer society it would actually be a big disadvantage. If you want to exercise just go for a long hike or a run.

It trains your discipline, it allows you to be strong and be able to protect your loved ones. I'm not talking about becoming a buffed piece of shit on steroids or growing a six pack on the place where your strategical belly fat should sit, just the regular workout to keep yourself in a good shape, both physhically and mentally. I've just started training a few months ago and already feel way better. A sedentary way of life ruined my body to some degree, and I need to fix it before it's too late.

working out since 15

almost 40 now

It doesn't age you. You wont regret building your body at a younger age. If anything I look much younger than my fat, unhealthy peers. Still get my ID checked buying alcohol.

You don't want to build strength?

You can buy gym equipment, place it in open nature and workout there

Keep training faggot. You’re a nation of natural-born poofs.
Stress is inherently bad. It’s why men die younger than women.

Why are you so obsessed with showing everyone how stupid you are

Insecurity promoted by Capitalist marketing and advertising.

t. Weak twink faggot

kill all australians

every minute you spend in the gym is a minute spent not fixing the actual problems you have

yet here you are wasting your life on Anon Babble

encourages over eating (ages you)

not really, is encourages you to eat properly rather than overeat, unless you're some retard bodybuilder or an aspiring strongman. for a normal person who wants to just maintain fit, there's no overeating.

unless you're some retard bodybuilder or an aspiring strongman

Clearly that's the only thing OP is fixated on. But if modern life sitting at a desk instead of roaming the steppe has robbed your body of some conditioning, then putting that conditioning back is probably a very important thing to do, duh...

There aren't that many people doing it natty anymore, most are at least on test or sarms if not hgh or anabolic steroids, whether they admit it or not. Why do they do it? Because they are insecure and feel they need to. I'm not even knocking them, most people have some kind of insecurity even if it is just imagined, and they attempt compensation in various ways.
Never really got the bulkier=better thing. I think they mostly care trying to achieve an intimidation factor, but it's only superficial because a simple gun purchase makes it meaningless. I guess it's how vain people feel safe and dominant?
Kinda like this. They're trying to secure a Trump card they can lean back on verbally and in theory because the thought is comforting. They don't really understand that a trained fighter will still kick the shit out of them even if arm biggest in town, and they don't want to acknoweledge that someone could just splatter their brains with a gun or slit their throat with a knife etc.
They identify with their body I think instead of their conscious mind, because they seem to think their body is THEM, instead of just another tool for their mind.

I'm an overweight, unfit loser.
I routinely take gymbros down. It's not like muscles make you a fighter.
Like I just grab their arm and twist it. They can't dumbbell their way out of it because I'll just twist like 5% harder and the pain is so intense they will comply.
The risky part is letting them go, most will turn around all red faced and try to plant a hit on me, especially if I've done it infront of their mates or gf. So you give them a little shove as you let go and they stumble off all embarrassed and throwing insults, but that's OK, I've done my job and idgaf, I'll bang a 4/10 hooker and play vidya until noon, sleep for 4 hours and do it all over again next weekend.

based and ogrepilled

I like making woman go ooh & arh at work with my feats of strength.
It makes them go tingly I know.
Otherwise yeah, I guess its about subconsciously dominating other dudes.
Why be weak? It's feminine and childish.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

Being jacked affords you many opportunities, not just with women, but also professionally. People take my medical advice more seriously because I'm in good shape. If I were some morbidly obese schlob, why would anyone entrust their health to me?

Good post. The pursuit of masculinity in vanity is still appreciated though, regardless of its effectiveness in actual violence.

Going to the gym results in being leaner and faster. No human on the planet can grow to 300 pounds just from going to the gym.

It's the life I was given, I don't ask for much. One day I will retire to a patch of ground and throw beer bottles at junkyard cars all day.

this. they are just making themselves move slower and the person with the better coordination is likely to win most physical altercations.

what is that

Any man under roughly their late 20s has been fed superhero slop since they were able to breath. They take and internalize roided up and finely attuned screen bodies as a norm and it fucks with many of them. Kind of like anorexia and women about 20 years ago.

It’s also an attempt to have control over something in an age where that seems to be stripped away from people. Sure you don’t have much an ability to get out of a low wage job or much of a pick of cute women in the current environment. But you do have an ability to get swole.

Before social media and in better times for men, you could get away with a physique crafted by black coffee, cigarettes, and light calisthenics and still feel good about yourself. People would mock a shirtless Charlton Heston or Marlon Brando today. Sean Connery would be considered small.

brown hands

Slav

stress is good for you
now stop bumping this nigger thread
yes (You)
stop bumping

Real sense of achievement is obviously answering lots of emails each day for the overlords.

Gyms are a scam. All you need is calisthenics, and a heavy sandbag

Boxers are Mantis Shrimp

Lifting weights for a few hours a week prevents you from solving your problems

Weird cope. I solve my problems and I'm stronger, faster and fitter than you.

Cope more you disgusting fuck. I can smell the kyphosis from here.

Your mom is a heavy sandbag.

dood I need my wife to worship a jewish god and place him above me!! yaaarr im so modern and fashionable counter culture!

be gym bro

get hired by friend to chop 10 alder logs

stand in front of wood pile for 4 hours taking selfies

can't actually chop wood

friend with broken hip does it in an hour out of spite

guy still wants payment for his time

make it make sense

In my experience the only people dumb enough to start something physical irl have been either drunk or cock sure young, or a bit of both.
Smart people who know how to fight are usually the last to start something, as they've learned humility by climbing up the ranks, and dropping their ego's, often by having some older master slap them around.
I guess you could say muscles are useless in a self defense situation, yeah they're like window dressing.
But they do show a mind set of self discipline, consistency, delaying gratification etc
Push push, grabbing, squeezing, bear hugs, wrestling type shit does have some merit.
I'd rather not fight someone who looked jacked, just in case they know something more dangerous. But I've seen a orca fat guy doing 6ft high speed ball kicks effortlessly with his feet, skinning guys with insane tendon strength (think AKIMBO69). Yeah the more I know, the less I want to start anything.
I guess muscles could be a detriment there, because they give the false illusion of ability.
But hey, chicks want daddy to wrap his big arms around them, so they feel safe.
What can you do? Around me I have two buttery 6'4" dudes who can barely keep balance walking capitalising off this affect, kind of sucks I must admit.

A doctor told me that working out actually releases an anti inflammatory agent into your body

gymfags are very much like women

cope thread for basement dwellers, sad.

Kek. Mutts are literally known for being cowards who act tough and then call the police at any sign of aggression, unless it's a nigger than you just stand there and take your beating.

based football hooligan

Are you retarded? It's good stress for your body. Have fun doing any physical activity when you get older when you're heart is the size of a raisin.

Lifting for aesthetics alone is pretty shit-tier. Lifting for strength is based.

stresses your body (ages you)

Lol, no. Definitly no.
Just don't overdoo and stay away from steroids!

costs money and time

The health gains are so big that the price you are paying to STAY HEALTH for decades more than a sedentary person is not even possible to quantify.

encourages over eating (ages you)

What?

gives a false sense of achievement

Sorry, but being able to jkill 4 kikes with your bare hands in a hand-to-hand combat is not a achievement for you? Go fuck yourself.

coping strategy

Yes, it can be a coping strategy for many people. And it's oftem described as a desired one because the alternatives are drugs, alcoohol, and many other vices.

TL;DR; OP is a fucking kike trying to keep white people away from the gym.

Can't spell gym without goyim

most people don't even consider that humans need at less half an hour of intense physical exercise for a good coagnitive development.
Everyone is a fucking fatso complaining they feel depresed and have no mental energy to do anything...

Yeah, a lot of people default to meds to feel better instead of taking about four hours a week to do any kind of physical activity that's intense enough, never mind going outside regularly and eating well.

We're in a weird place because of the physique inflation that makes natty lifters out to be dad bods while society is getting fatter and fatter.

Just do heavy compound lifts three to four times a week, go walk or run here and there. That's all you need.

I prefer twinks but i still would

I go to the gym because I work 8 hours a day and I feel like shit mentally and physically from doing it.

Idk but everyone on pol says working out will instantly eliminate all anxiety and depression and make you a god

Lift heavy rock, sad thoughts go away.

Stop making excuses and go life you fat faggot. We all need to be in top shape for the happening.

This

I played college hockey and rarely did weight training

Today's gym-goers think getting in shape = going on gear and lifting a bar

They have no functional fitness, no legs, and their cardio is shit

*lift

Sadly most of these chicks dont have big tiddies.
:(

What, are you incapable of sucking on small tits? Are you gay?

Im a lazy maxxer since working out is a psyop to age you also eating is worthless

Just use guns lol

I like the big bags.

It ages you faster

No it doesn't. If anything, it keeps you healthy and alive longer, assuming you're getting adequate sleep and eat a healthy and balanced diet.

Coping strategy

Not wrong about this one. It's definitely a stress mitigator for me. Helps curb my depression.

Encourages overeating

It does. Hence why I've plateaued the past few months. I can't meet the calorie requirements needed to continue. But I've managed to reach a visible aesthetic I like, and you can still lose body fat and eat just enough to maintain your current build, which is what I generally am doing. I share your concerns about people turning to steroids and other outside sources beyond supplements to "enhance" their "gains," but for me the appeal to use those was never there. I suppose it all depends on your goals.

If you dont work out then your body is stressed by your everyday lifestyle which is much more unhealthy than your body being stressed only by a few hours of exercise per week

We're talking all day every day stress vs 2-5 hours a week. The extra strength gives you more energy and strength to do more with your life too

It obviously won't fix all your mental problems, but it'll make it easier.

Would you rather be depressed and weak, or depressed and strong?

because we are biologically built to fight, hunt and work
and society has us sitting
the gym makes us feel better, look better and live more complete lives
there is very little opportunity cost with the gym, you'd be spending money doing other shit instead of your $15/mo planet fitness sub

Why is modern society obsessed with gym?

access to sex
more likely to be promoted at work
admiration from plebs

Stress is inherently bad. It’s why men die younger than women

Constant low level stress is worse than occasional higher level stress
Exercise is occasional higher level stress which strengthens the body and eliminates the constant low level stress
This applys to many things, not just exercise
Spicy foods can be healthy because they trick your body into thinking its burning, causing inflammation which can cause more healing than damage. All kinds of plant foods contain different compounds which elicit different kinds of inflammatory responses in our bodies which can have very positive effects in moderation
Stress prompts the body to strengthen and then it can deal with lower levels of similar kinds of stress more easily

If working out doesnt feel good and make you feel good, its because you're missing something, be it some combination of nutrients, vitamin d, nitric oxide from sun exposure, sleep, lack of sun in the eyes during day, lack of darkness in the eyes at night, etc, or you're eating poison like vegetable oil or corn syrup

Why is that mulatto trying to take white women

do something fun for an hour

glad I did something fun

work out for an hour

upset I didn’t do anything fun

I’ve never gotten a mood boost from exercise

tradies get tons of exercise and the result ? bad knees, bad spine, sun damage, wrinkles. The average bodybuilder looks 10 years older than they really are. what I'm saying is that yeah gym obsession is not good, you are much better obsessing about proper nutrition.

Touch grass
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Well yeah if you dont enjoy it its likely not healthy, hormones play a big role in how the body responds to the stress. If you think of exercise like a punishment its going to be bad for you. Exercise with other people out in the sunshine in some kind of activity like a sport or hobby is much healthier because you tend to enjoy it and release good hormones to actually support healing, but that's not really exercise, its its own thing. You can kinda force yourself into a positive headspace to an extent, getting good nutrition and everything can help a lot, usually there's a micronutrient or something you could use more of and can put you into the state of mind and body where some kind of exercise can be somewhat enjoyable

Oh yeah meditation also functions similarly, it literally deprives the brain of oxygen mildly which makes it activate strong healing mechanisms which makes you feel good

doesn't find the straining of his body as it was designed by nature and the actualization of his most masculine tendencies 'fun'

spiritually female. flag checks out.

Exercise in a gym under fluorescent lights with psycho roasties and roided faggots everywhere isn't natural
I do get why many people dont like exercise, its can be hard to have the positive mindset for it to be healthy when its so dissociated from any real part of life with any other kind of rewarding aspect

Doing something like rowing on a paddleboard or kayak can be much healthier than rowing while staring at the wall or floor. Especially if its done in bright sunshine with other people you enjoy the company of. And Americans are pretty hard to enjoy the company of in general, and dont want to meet random people in any kind of way because niggers destroyed the fabric of our society