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Man, when I was like 16 I got so sick of being made fun of for being the fat kid that I took an axe down inna woods, chopped down a tree, and started doing log-lifts all the time. I got strong as fuck, but I didn’t lose no weight. I actually got bigger.

Same thing happened when I got into fighting. I got even stronger, and I got *fast*, man, and nimble, like a cat. Still chubby.

Body-building culture is a bunch of crap, my dude. Functional muscle is not necessarily toned or lean. You can be swole as hell and still be heavy. And that’s cool.

Embrace your inner barbarian. And when fatphobic little gym twinks try to body shame you, you should DESTROY THEM with your MIGHTY AXE

Can comfirm, i am Quite Fat ™ but i still hit my punching bag hard enough last week make it touch the ceiling and broke a finger in the process

You know, I train with (martial arts) a bunch of dudes, and a few bodybuilders have showed up over the years. 

And every damn one of those huge shredded motherfuckers has the endurance of a fucking newborn puppy. Fifteen minutes into warmups and they’re panting for air like like they’re about to die. I’ve sparred them and every one of them telegraphs their moves about two weeks in advance, and are slower than my dead grandpa because their huge useless muscles get in the damn way. 

Now. I also work with a couple of guys who are not weightlifters. They do, however, do very physical jobs and are Big Dudes. Picture this sort of build. 

No abs to speak of, a bit of a tummy, and those motherfuckers can pick up one of the weightlifters and throw them. 

And they’re fast. Like, unfair fast. 

Bodybuilding culture is bullshit. Embrace your status as a giant barbarian and if anyone gives you crap throw them off a mountain. 

This is true for all humans, too!

At my heaviest (well over 300lbs) I still ran an 11 minute mile (pre-disability). And even when I was at my most active, and training intensely, I was never hardbodied despite working out full time. Functional muscle for me looks like horse legs and a big muscular butt with a soft tummy and big arms.

I’m built like a Celtic Warrior Goddess and I will never have a flat tummy and toned arms and that is fine by me because I could snap a grown man in half.

Yes!

Have you seen olympic powerlifters? 

This is Sarah Robles, on the USA Olympic Powerlifting team. 

Skinny? No. Could pick me up with one arm? Absofuckinglutely. 

Sarah Robles was once in an auto accident. She braced her arms against the steering wheel & by main force held it back from smashing her in the chest.

She fought her car & she won.

wHAT

Holy shit I love her even more. 

That would shatter my arms like glass. 

@warriormale @imfemalewarrior @nonbinarywarrior

Embrace your body the way it is built and designed to last. 

-FemaleWarrior 

Seeing mundane photos of somewhere completely different is fun, because you never stop to consider that your mundane is unusual to someone else, and vice versa.

 I once had this indian online friend, we used to send photos of things in our lives to each other, mostly food and things around the house. He was sceptical that a human being could survive -35 C cold, and I still have a hard time believing someone can survive +40. Almost every time we showed each other something, the other’s was different, the only real limit was our imagination. This one time we sent each other photos of our beds.

 The beds were the same, but what was interesting was the floor! He had never seen wooden floors in a normal home, and I’d never seen marble. He admitted it wasn’t really marble, just linoleum printed to look like stone. And my home floor wasn’t really wood, it was linoleum printed to look like wood!

 Finland is cold and wood floors are warm, so finnish people prefer wood, even if it’s fake, and India is hot, and stone floors are cool, so indian people prefer stone, even if it’s fake. And little differences like this will never stop being fun and interesting to me.

What the Dead Men Say.

You are the best friend of one of the main characters of a sitcom. The whole show revolves around them in a ‘Will They, Won’t They’ romance with the other main character and all the zany shenanigans that ensue. You and all the other supporting characters are aware you are in a sitcom and that once they get together, the show ends and you all cease to exist. All the other characters do their best to keep the main couple apart so the show will go on. Unbeknownst to all of them, you are actively doing your best to get them together so it will finally end. Describe your attempts to play matchmaker without anyone knowing