Exercising on purpose is the ultimate survival flex

CascadianBeam@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 169 points –
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No it's part of survival. Turns out our stupid bodies implode if not used for a whole.

That's the flex. You can exist for decades without ever picking a single berry and hunting down wooly mammoths

The flex isn't that we exercise, it's that we exercise for the sole purpose of exercising. Most "natural" exercising is just used to get food/shelter/etc.

A whole what? The suspense is killing me.

...what? You don't do pushups or run around your home to pass up time/self-distraction? Huh, I thought that was the most common/normal thing ever.