The average individual is not interested in “fitness”
Most gym-goers are interested in looking good naked
How did we get here?
Infertility & depopulation = bad for business
Then There’s FitStagram
For the better part of the past decade the fitness industries have seen an explosion in popularity. Between Instagram metastasizing a corner of the platform that is dominated by all of us sharing our workout videos and progress pics, and the popularity of CrossFit exploding in years-passed… there has been a serious swelling in interest in individuals “getting fit.”
Now, there’s a problem here. While many people likely are interested in getting “fit,” many more — in my experience (10+ years of working in gyms) — are actually more interested in looking fit. The two are not synonymous. You can be fit and overweight, and you can look very good naked and be less “fit” than an individual that is overweight.
Of particular focus for me these past few years is the vanity play for chasing the bodybuilder frame on social media. I have zero ill will towards the individuals that aim to look good naked, I’m right there with ya. I love bodybuilding and lifting heavy and seeing progress as much as the next man or woman. However. There has been an explosion in men and women that are taking towards unhealthy practices in order to achieve these goals. I’ve spoken many times about how our species tends to take things too far, well… this is one of those examples.
We wanted women to get involved in the health & fitness revolution, but not so much to the point of engaging in unhealthy practices that were driven by vanity and that erode our chances at family formation. For our wonderful ladies in particular is the problem of seeking an impressive physique that is typically at-, or below 10% bodyfat. This is a problem. Notably for the fact that many of these participants are engaging in this activity without the proper education on its consequences. Like not being able to support child-rearing. It’s a whole lot of good that developing that physique is if you finally nab that mate you’ve been dying for only to find out that your strategy for securing that mate is also preventing you from reproducing with said mate. Talk about painful irony.
But let’s be fair and clear here, it isn’t that I’m suggesting that our ladies are at fault. But we do need to identify where it is we are failing, and have been failing consistently, so that we may work towards the solutions. All of us have been led down this path with multiples of ignorances playing a role in quite literally every direction. Not only does the scientific community play a role in taking responsibility, they are not the harbingers of fact, as they are often just as wrong as you and I (science is more art than the majority realize). But the political community also shares in this as politicians tend to rely on storytelling with appeals to authority and utilizing studies to confirm their biases and support their own interests. And then the general public also plays a massive role here as the average individual continues to push the drive for modernization by seeking to continually out-source more and more daily functions, such as critical-thinking, responsibility, accountability, and so on. With the education system also playing a big role in their aversion to pushback by students and the reluctance by so many teachers to avoid being honest when admitting that they do not know the answer to a question. We all need to do better.
I would personally recommend readers watch the presentation linked above this paragraph. Ignore the cringe, influencoorness of the thumbnail. Barbara O’Neil is an absolute godsend when it comes to elaborating on the physiological and biochemical processes of the body.
This isn’t just a problem for women individually. This is a problem for entire nations, communities and economies. For if we have large enough swaths of the population that are chasing fantasies of vanity, eroding the healthy functions of their bodies, and ignoring the biological imperatives set forth before them by their DNA to reproduce and populate, massive problems arise. Whole economies will run into greater demographic issues than are currently being observed in nations like China, Japan, and the US. When there are fewer youngsters to take over from the previous generation, there is also less economic activity. Less buyers, for more sellers.
Mix these problems of vanity with issues of public health and fertility, and developed nations are steamrolling towards a future of widespread impotency with shrinking economic activity. Where the vast majority of the population is rendered barren, infertile, and incapable of reproducing by natural means.
Automation starts to sound like a bit of a boon at that point, doesn’t it?
If we want to save our county, and our communities, we need to protect our ladies from this environment that we have played such a heavy hand in producing. What we do for the women in our lives, we also do for ourselves. We need men & women engaging in physical activity and training. We need men & women turning away from steroid and SARM use. We need our men & women to engage in responsible health and activity to produce strong and healthy children, so that we can get back to a strong and healthy nation.
There’s only victory or defeat in this game, and I’m not a fan of just accepting defeat.