> This idea that physical fitness is "war" and excruciating painful and only for jocks is largely self-inflicted by nerds upon themselves. I don't know how man

> This idea that physical fitness is "war" and excruciating painful and only for jocks is largely self-inflicted by nerds upon themselves. I don't know how many this people generalizes true, but much of this was definitely inflicted on me by jocks. I grew up in the South in a time where bullying was common and allowed. I had the biological misfortune to be a very skinny late bloomer who never put on muscle the way most boys did, even though I was pretty active. I was mocked and bullied constantly in PE and hated every second of it. In high school PE, when we were doing football, they would do the classic move of picking two team captains who would then take turns picking people for their teams. Now, it is understood to be humiliating to be picked last in this scenario. But sometimes a captain would pick me first as a show of bravado. They would literally pick me and then tell they other captain that they were confident they'd still win even with me on their team. I agree with your point whole-heartedly that using your body can and should be fun. But I also know that for a lot of awkward nerds like myself, there is a lot of emotional baggage that understandably gets in the way of it.