Most people are going to do more than just their office job. Whether it is chores around the house or working out or a variety of other things. If you live here in Florida you need a shower just from the heat 10 months out of the year.
the fact of the matter is that at the age most of us posting right now are at, you should be doing some minimal weightlifting just to not lose muscle mass that you need as you get older, which is presumably why tetra's doctor told him to do so in the first place. doing so isn't "being a gym bro," it's literally taking care of your body lol. as you said earlier, you are not responsible for how other people choose to perceive things. that extends to exercising as well.
There is also no amount of weight lifting that could turn the author of "chicken is more graceful" into a gym bro
It is muscle mass and bone density. No one said going to the gym or lifting weights makes you a gym bro, but lifting weights is a prerequisite for being a gym bro. Other warning signs include buying those undershirts with an offensive nickname, saying bruh, and listening to angry music.
Going to the gym is great it's the number 2 thing you can do for your quality of life. More energy everyday, every activity is easier, feel better, look better, and listen to music while you do it.
Also “bruh” was co-opted by gen Z bros, it didn’t come from them, that’s ebonics/AAVE origin slang that white people wanted to also feel cool and start saying I will not have you lumping black cultural slang with white MAGA voters
Some of my coworkers get so mad when the kids call them bruh. One of the kids called me honey once and I got a sassy "girrrllll" when I was making fun of a kid.
The only reason I don’t go to the gym is cause I get PLENTY of lifting as someone seriously pursuing an indie band lol I carry two 70+ pound amps and various other heavy things down city blocks and up stairs and shit on a regular basis. Playing with energy after all that and then loading out at the end is way fuckin harder when I’m not in shape.
A more charitable version of gen z using bro and it's derivatives is that they have mixed friend groups and share vocab
He also said the thing about jeans and beer and hamburgers being for “factory workers”, EARLIER TODAY, but somehow doesn’t remember lol
Ok, then why would your reaction to your doctor saying “hey you should work on strength training” be “oh well I don’t wanna be a gym bro” lol
That’s true I guess and that’s a pretty benign example but sometimes it does rub me sideways how much AAVE culture specifically got co-opted. Stuff like “that’s cap” just sounds cringe coming out the mouth of a white person who went to private school when I grew up in a generation that was already saying that in urban / street / hip hop culture lol. Maybe I shouldn’t judge but idk it’s definitely weird as hell