Take a quick glance at any social media platform or talk to any random person and you'll quickly realize something...
People love to label themselves.
- "I'm a banker, traveler, couch-potato, bodybuilder, etc."
- "I'm not a pessimist, social, outdoorsy, a cube monkey, etc."
As humans we have this tendency to define ourselves or put ourselves into groups based on what other people around us are saying/doing.
Over the years I've noticed nowhere is this type of labeling more common than in the fitness industry.
ESPECIALLY how people identify and define their physical body type.
- There are people who say they are just "naturally skinny".
- There are people who say they are "big boned".
- There are people who say they are "naturally muscular".
And so on and so forth.
But where did all of this come from?
You might say...
- "Modern Genetics!"
- "Advancements in science!"
- "Learning more about the human body!"
...But you'd be wrong.
They are based on nothing more than faulty, old-science that people have heard so much that they accept it as truth.
These ideas that a person is genetically determined to only be a certain body type are total B.S.
And It's time to put this body-type issue to bed.
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