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ItIsSoOver posted...

You have to work to get it, and you have to work to maintain it.

I mean, that depends heavily on your genetics.

Like, I was lucky enough to be naturally very fit. I was always slim growing up, despite having an atrocious diet, I could run faster than ~80% of people in my class despite not having any hobbies that emphasized run speed, and when I started lifting weights as a teen I put on muscle pretty quickly. I would be lying if I said I "worked" for a fit body; I just got a good pull on the genetics lottery.

I also don't find it particularly difficult to stay fit these days. Granted, I'm a dedicated martial artist and I train a solid five nights a week, but not all of that training is geared towards physical fitness. I've seen people who put way more work into physical fitness than myself and wound up with way less to show for it. Genetics sucks sometimes.

Never seen fitness as a status symbol, though. Maybe that's the circles that I run in. Honestly, most of the time I find those who hyper-fixate on fitness as a status symbol to usually be masking some pretty deep insecurities.