Yes! Don’t discount the exercise is strange and nerdy mentality there. Growing up in Alabama, most of the adults thought my fitness routines were a silly waste of time. Usually they were men with huge guts.
This exactly. Any exercise, especially by a male, outside of being on a sports team is considered “vain, gay, silly, etc.” I’ve worked out intensely since I was a teenager, it’s always been the fat body slobs who can’t do a single pull up who talk the most trash.