You don't think it's a little rude to hop into a body image thread where we discuss actors that literally dehydrate themselves for days on top of crazy workouts for months with professional trainers to get this look and you're just like well it's not a struggle for me.
Like coming into a thread about poverty and saying that having a personal jet isn't a struggle for you.
But sure you can let us know how you do it. I also wanna know in addition to time put in do you have a partner and/or kids? How about a 40-50 hour per week job? Because stuff like that is a baseline to get past for the average person.
I said looking like some (and I stress, "some") of these bodies isn't really difficult for me, while also admitting I'm pretty blessed genetically. I didn't say it wasn't a big deal.
I work an average of 50 hours a week (upwards of 65 during the spring and month of September), and I have an 8 year old. My girlfriend and I have also more or less lived together for 5 years, and been together for 7, so having a busy personal life isn't really an obstacle I'm unfamiliar with. I go to the gym 3 times a week and run for a few miles about once or so a week. I've also never had a problem with eating healthy (though my appetite is the first thing to go during my frequent bouts with depression, which increases the rate at which I lose weight I don't actually want to lose, a routine problem for me with my metabolism), and water is pretty much all I drink. A lot of that I owe to my parents, who were always about making sure my brother and I ate healthily, even when we didn't have much else as young kids.
I know it ain't the norm, but it's always been wild to me how out of the norm it is that it's so easy for me to be fit, especially since I don't typically look at a lot of these examples in this thread as being unrealistic or unattainable. They're just...fit guys.
I wish more people saw exercise as just something they had to do, akin to eating. I don't expect people to be as disciplined or successful with it as I am, but even a minimal amount of effort and change in their diet could go a long way over time.
I struggle with body dysmorphia, something I've been working on fixing in recent years. So I sympathize with people with body image issues.
My genetics afford me a certain amount of privilege, I assume.