What does being muscular do for you in life?
Much more than you think
Who has more security in life, a person who came from nothing and struggled to get a job, who studied hard and fought to succeed in life, or the son of a millionaire who doesn’t need to do anything in life because he has his father’s millions?
At first glance, we’d say that the millionaire’s son has more security, but if something happens and he loses access to his father’s money, he has no ability to generate money, to struggle, to adapt. The one who came from nothing, on the other hand, if he loses everything, has the necessary skills to win it all back.
People often cling to concepts of security that are unrealistic. The only thing we have in life is our knowledge and our skill. We have our knowledge and our skill is the application of that knowledge. That’s what we truly have because it can’t be taken away from us.
Being an athlete is not a title, it’s a recognition, it’s a status. If we look at an Olympic athlete who has won many gold medals but is now 70 and retired, is he an athlete? No. An athlete is not a title, it’s a status.
What does a worked physique really mean to the person who has it? The physique is a constant reminder of what a person really possesses. A person with a good physique has a good capacity for work, a good sense of sacrifice, possesses knowledge… Having big muscles reminds those who have them that the real things that are successful are the things they carry with them.
What can be bought has no value, while what can’t be bought has a lot of value. We can imagine ourselves with a good, an object that we don’t have but that we can buy, even if it’s very expensive. But we can’t imagine ourselves with something we believe we don’t deserve.
This is the most important part of exercise: you can have as much money as you want, and you can be a millionaire, but if you don’t do what it takes to have the physique you want, you won’t have it. You can’t buy your physique, you can’t sell it, you can’t rent it: you either deserve it or you don’t have it.
Anyone with a worked-out body is a master of the art of patience, perseverance, and stoicism. Patience and perseverance because nobody gets what they want overnight and only by doing what needs to be done will you get anywhere. Stoicism because training is never convenient, comfortable, or peaceful, it’s always an endeavor. And that makes people who train get used to it, to something that isn’t convenient, comfortable, or peaceful and teaches them the art of “just one more”, just one more repetition in the gym, just one more pool swum in, just one more hour working out, just one more training session I’m going to do.
In addition, we all have to be able to walk into a room and know that if something really wrong happens, we are capable of killing and eating everyone or running faster than them to get out of there.
Your body represents you and talks about you without you even opening your mouth. If you have a good physique, people will know as soon as they see you that you are a disciplined, regular, focused, and hard-working person.
What are you waiting for to change your life?
There is one very important caveat, however!
When asked, most women say they prefer a dad body to a sculpted, muscular body. Why is this?
Because a muscular man is seen as more narcissistic, as having the possibility of having the attention of many more women, and as such, a greater tendency to cheat on his wife and some even report feeling unsafe with a muscular man, because they are afraid for his physical safety. In addition, dad bods are seen as potentially better fathers, because they are more family-focused and don’t have the distraction or energy of the gym or other women to look after.
That said, gentlemen, don’t forget that despite all the positive points mentioned earlier in this article about having a hard-working, muscular body, you shouldn’t just focus on it. Become interesting people, try to learn as much as possible about various areas, try to develop yourself as a person, get to know yourself well, establish your goals and values, empathize, help improve the world around you, and learn to be real men and not just handsome men.
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