Anyone else face ridicule for simply chasing aesthetics?

Yeah all the time.

I'm weak for my appearance, don't do a lot of the "big" lifts, and never work below 8 reps. Never even attempted 1RM. Numbers mean nothing at all to me. But yeah, I get a lot of shit for it all the time and people like to brag about their lifts to me and tell me what kind of changes I need to make to get real strong.

I get that people have different goals and really have nothing against dudes who want to go for the powerlifter aesthetic or chase pure numbers.. but I feel like a lot of this obsession with strength and numbers is basically dudes that won't admit they want to look good and try to reframe it into some noble quest for strength and power.

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