You Have The Wrong Idea

I had a buddy. He had a health scare a few years back.

He used to squat, bench, deadlift. He was muscular,  he had boundless energy, and he was strong, even competing in powerlifting into his late 40's.

After the health scare? NOTHING! I guess someone told him that being strong wasn't good for you, that he would be healthier on the cardio machines and jabbering away while he did some machine benches. Squats??

Who needs them?

Too old for that stuff. Meanwhile, he went from a guy who was semi-formidable to a guy who couldn't protect his family or who wouldn't garner a second look from a passerby on a sidewalk.

Before he would roll up his sleeves and show off his arms. Now he just conforms to the crowd. Another hiding, scared sheep, walking in the pasture of a weak life.

There is nothing "healthy" about being weak and small.

You aren't healthier. You are not more "fit", whatever that means.

You are slowly disintegrating.

 Descending down...into the softness of endless elliptical sessions and your clothes hanging off of you.

Grab your manhood, put on some Black or Thrash Metal and place a bar upon your back.

I know that you won't. But I had to write about it.