But they're not letting concern about these issues hold them back. They're proudly strolling the beach. They're comfortably changing in the locker room. They're confidently playing skins at Tuesday-night hoops. They know you can be strong in more ways than one.
There's nothing wrong with pushing to be your best self, building muscle and strength. But strength comes in many different forms. This is the message the men on the following pages want you to hear. From Martinus Evans, a 347-pounder who runs marathons, and physical therapist Ilya Parker, who escaped jokes about gender and weight as a youngster to become a fitness-inclusivity advocate for heavier people, to Cody Young, a self-described body-hair ambassador, and bodybuilder Jim Arrington, 90 years young and still lifting weights daily.
They're not preaching acceptance of your body, necessarily. They're saying it's okay for you to want your body to look different in whatever way you want it to look different. It's okay to care more about how your insides function than your outsides look. It's okay to care more about the walls of your cardiac arteries than the ripples of your abdomen. (It's also okay to care about those things equally.) It's okay for you to care about your man boobs and not your triceps.
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