How come masculine men in the 1950s didn't lift at all?

Most alpha masculine type of men these days have some form of muscle and physical fitness. Many like The Rock are roided to the gills. Back in those days guys were like 150lbs or on perpetual dad bod mode with a diet of liquor and cigarettes and were seen as "real men" in their communities. These days you NEED to lift to even generate respect.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Coping betabuxxers were the stereotypical “alpha male” from the 50s lol, if you don’t lift or care about fitness you’re not masculine. On the flip simply lifting does not make you masculine either, it’s a piece of the puzzle

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    50s was the beginning of the end. Start of cultural breakdown and the worship of technology

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This. The picturesque shit of 50s Americans was an actual psyop to pacify people who were scared shitless in the wake of the most destructive weapon ever created -- nukes.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        This is basically true of most era´s. So much 80´s nostalgia-bait nowadays when there was an imminent nuclear threat from both US and Russia. But look at muh hecking neon colors, arcades and nerd culture ayy lmao

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Trips confirm. Men from the 50's were skinny fat wimps for the most part.
      That said sturgeon's law applies to humanity as well, and most people across all time are mediocre.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Men from the 50's were skinny fat wimps for the most part

        This. The picturesque shit of 50s Americans was an actual psyop to pacify people who were scared shitless in the wake of the most destructive weapon ever created -- nukes.

        >This. The picturesque shit of 50s Americans was an actual psyop to pacify people who were scared shitless in the wake of the most destructive weapon ever created -- nukes.

        50s was the beginning of the end. Start of cultural breakdown and the worship of technology

        >50s was the beginning of the end. Start of cultural breakdown and the worship of technology
        imagine seething over your grandad

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I'm an immigrant. My grandfather was sitting back relaxing while yours got shot for Israel. Likewise is WW3 breaks out, I am immediately leaving the country while you get drafted and die. Get fricked.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >I'm an immigrant. My grandfather was sitting back relaxing while yours got shot for Israel. Likewise is WW3 breaks out, I am immediately leaving the country while you get drafted and die. Get fricked.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Again, your image only repeats the same thing in the previous one despite it being factually incorrect. My grandfather has no sins. Yours is a traitor to his people.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >My grandfather has no sins. Yours is a traitor to his people.
                go back to whereever shithole you came from homosexual

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Funny given America has historically been a shithole forever basically.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          do "chuds" pay rent for all the time they spend in your head?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >prob critiques the 50s all day
          >rushes to defend the 50s when it gets attacked from the right
          Many such cases

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >chudcel
            >right-wing
            undermining our relationship with EU and the Free World, humiliating brave soldiers, our grandparents who fought for our freedom is "conservtive" to you?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Americans didn't fight for America in ww2. They died so neoliberal internationalism could prevail over nation-state and the world could be parsed into oligarch controlled international blocks that farm people like cattle through usury and wages wageslavery.
              My grandfather fought in ww2 and regretted it because he knew it was wrong.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Taking overseas territory during the Spanish American War was a mistake

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Taking overseas territory during the Spanish American War was a mistake

                Americanism is the great satan and a bigger threat to humanity than communism ever was. America needs to die.

                These, based grandpa, and America is a Masonic psyop.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Americanism is the great satan and a bigger threat to humanity than communism ever was. America needs to die.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >you betrayed our white race
          This, but unironically.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yes, pretty much
      1912 was a better start but 1950 was when the tech required to really control people was developed

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >its another episode of zoomer born in le wrong generation reminiscences on an era he only knows through popular media and images from that time period

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They were beta because women weren’t allowed to have standards that actually improve mankind yet

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >woman
      >improve mankind
      Mankind went to shit when women were allowed in the workforce.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Men were assumed to be "alpha" because that's just how you raised and were supposed to act. Now the default state of man is to go with the flow which generally means being as inoffensive as possible

        women used to
        >cook food
        >do chores
        >maintain house/property
        >raise kids
        Arguably as important as bringing home the bacon

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >women used to
          >>cook food
          >>do chores
          house/property
          kids
          >Arguably as important as bringing home the bacon
          Definitely. The destruction of the nuclear family under the guise of "women's liberation" turned women from irreplaceable to inferior versions of men who demand the same/ greater pay for less work

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The masculine element was in singlehandedly providing for your family, the feminine was in managing the household. Now both sexes do the latter and no one does the former, the way to differentiate the gender blended role of provider is to accentuate physical differences as much as possible.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because 90% of them were veterans, moron.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you think 90% of men in the US fought in WW2?
      have a nice day

      Almost every man in the 50s has participated in WW2. Real battle is worth more than lifting heavy objects

      Less than 30% of men in usa had anything to do with the war.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They were paid brain surgeon bucks to wash windows

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >traditional values and family
    >very limited steroid use
    >lifting was rare for normies
    Vs
    >rapidly degenerating already degenerate culture
    >steroid use becoming far more common by the day (actually in favor of this, this is 80% behind peoples moronicly beta view of Black folk, Black folk everywhere have been roiding for decades so more middle class whites doing it and realizing what a joke pro sports are is a good thing)
    >lifting very common among men at some point in their lives
    Life is a competition. You have to adapt or get weeded out

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    who the frick does yard work in a sweater vest?

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Almost every man in the 50s has participated in WW2. Real battle is worth more than lifting heavy objects

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >didn't lift at all
    While "lifting" was generally unknown, most of these folks would have been fresh out of the army in which resistance training did, in fact, occur. Lifting weights was rare, but push ups and pull ups were not, and mandatory for a lot of these guys lives.
    And of course these folks would often play sports, because vidya was not a thing so you had to get games from somewhere, and sports are a thing you can do anywhere with simple equipment.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Not sure if you ever knew any of them but it was a pretty no nonsense type mindset and lifestyle. They were not shooting hoops with friends or throwing the football around for the most part. They did group social stuff like bowling and whatnot but playing sports as an adult was not particularly common even rec leagues

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Well this says to me that your family wasn't generally one of degree holders and had little contact with recent (at the time) continental immigrants, where sport tended to be reinforced.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          100% wrong. WASP, all degree holders. All played college football. How old are you? You’re speculating about a generation you had zero contact with.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >WASP's, all degree holder's
            But how can these be
            >all played college football
            oh, well that explains everything.
            Well, hey, at least they gave you an upbringing conducive to lifting, right?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Not sure if you ever knew any of them but it was a pretty no nonsense type mindset and lifestyle. They were not shooting hoops with friends or throwing the football around for the most part. They did group social stuff like bowling and whatnot but playing sports as an adult was not particularly common even rec leagues

      You were also fricking and having kids by 25.
      Fricking and beating your wife burns a lot of calories

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      not to mention gym classes actually had kids climbing ropes and doing pull ups. you could say it was all "cold war training" nonsense but at least people started off their life in decent shape. Now kids have mental health days and take of gym class and do no sports and are surprised they are fat

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Nah, it's that even though folks knew about resistance training the specifics of how we approach it these days was just not there, so people did, as you say, rope climbing and pullups.
        What I will say is that back in high school we really had gym days, where we would go to the (for a high school) well stocked school gym and frick around on the machines (nobody ever touched the barbells), but in these times basically nothing was taught to us, we just fricked around a bit and went for our next class. This ain't right, this was a good chance for some real instruction that was squandered for no real purpose.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Exactly, "muh schools are preparing kids for war!" was the reason nobody was able to teach you how to exercise properly. Instead we got sports ball classes and nobody knows how to do even basic dumbbell or barbell exercises safely.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            The thing is the PE teachers are usually also coaching the actual sports teams, and from what I heard from friends who continued PE outside the mandatory period they will actually teach you how to lift. But for the kids doing just their requirement they couldn't give less shits.
            I get it, most of us couldn't be arsed, me included, but maybe I would have if there had been any actual instruction and encouragement. it would have been nice to get into lifting earlier in life, you know?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >the actual sports teams, and from what I heard from friends who continued PE outside the mandatory period they will actually teach you how to lift

              I can confirm this is true

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Lifting is usually a cope. Where there's no true masculinity the subject tries to emulate it by appearing masculine

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You had to MANUALLY mow your lawn, clean things, here were no computer jobs, had to repair things, chop fire wood, shift your car, and walked more.
    A man with a physical job is going to be in better shape than a homosexual google employee today

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Don't forget bicycles
      Ever ridden one of those things
      Like, recently, as an adult with your adult body weight
      It's fricking hard
      I'm so glad I bought an electric bike and got back into cycling it's super fun and having a speedometer really makes it more fun
      My top speed is 71kph

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >riding a electric bicycle that helps you pedal
        >wow this is so hard
        Maybe you're part of the problem

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They didn't put estrogen in fricking everything

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This is so true
      The government is literally trying to lower the population by poisoning us instead of just making laws which are punished by death sentence
      It should be the death sentence to be over 300lbs fat

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Men back then were a lot stronger mentally and also a lot stronger physically than you may think. Most of those men were soldiers and built wiry and tough, they were thin and skinny because they didn’t eat as much and smoked but many of them had worked manual labor from when they were kids and grew up in much more testosterone inducing environments

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      To add on to this my great grandpa was a champion middle weight boxer in the 1930s, he was a hardcore handyman type of guy and would literally bend metal and shit when he was working and could lift hundreds of pounds easily. He was built like the old homie in monster house

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >be in school
      >bully kicks your ass
      >go home
      >what happened son?
      >the bully kicked my ass
      >WHAT? I DIDNT RAISE NO PUSSY
      >Your dad then beats your ass for losing
      >ok son, now ill teach you to fight
      you cant do that shit nowdays

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        TAME ME FRICKING BACK NOW NOW NOW

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        This pic makes me want to cry brehs. Its almost surreal that the world was able to go from that to this in such a short amount of time.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The suicide rate back then was about the same as it is now, so they weren't mentally stronger at all.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Food wasnt stuffed with sugar and emulsifier.
    There was no such things as snack food advertising was in it's infancy.
    Not yet an obesity epidemic inhibiting the body which yearns to be mobile and fit.
    More spending power means eating out is more viable and fast food doesnt exist in the same way.
    Schedule is more regular because jobs are more stable and more regular. Good habits flow from schedule and job security.
    People were married and married women knew how to cook. Eating well makes the body hardy and lean.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Their PT when growing up was way different than american sports based PE today.

    It was good old PT, actual exercise and not just chasing balls like gays.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Here is how Hitler Youth used to train.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because simply being a man automatically had you command respect and a separate social status to the point it wasn't necessary to prove your social status.

    You still see this in lots of societies where women are socially distinct. Japan and China and South Korea all have a bunch of skinny dyels, and Arab countries have a bunch of fat dudes hanging out in pajamas all day.

    Meanwhile the most "equal" societies like scandanavia and the US produce the most bodybuilders

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I've changed my diet to 80% meat to lose some extra fat, I feel my muscles are slowly growing despite me doing virtually no workout.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah hormone and nutrition optimization causes muscle growth. I gained muscle from eating carnivore despite being sedentary.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's mostly due to testosterone. Optimizing your nutrition raises T levels, this leads to massive muscle growth even if you don't work out.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You don't need to lift to get respect today moron. Lifting to get respect is like lifting to get girls, NGMI.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Standards of masculinity/femininity reflect the times. Who would have thought it?

    He's masculine because he has a broodmother and his successful DNA copy hugging his leg.

    Today, you're masculine if you clear the standards of the collective female social media hivemind---if you're tall and have a strong jawline. If you have that going for you, then not only will women worship you for being the masculine ideal, beta men on reddit and IST sulk around and worship you too.

    Maybe a thousand years ago you were masculine if you were a hard worker and provided enough to sustain yourself and your parents. It all depends on the times, but the constant is materialistic question: "how can I be the most valuable asset for my tribe/community?".

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >he has a broodmother and his successful DNA copy hugging his leg
      holy aspergers batman

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        *broodmare
        Thanks for bringing that to my attention

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    your concept of masculine men is wrong for starters.

    farm hands lifted hay barrels all day, probably one if not the most physical demanding jobs known to man. Average hay barrel only weighs in at 40lbs.
    Can you lift 40lbs Anon?
    Yes, yes you can. You can probably lift way more than 40lbs.

    Now can you lift 40lbs literal hundreds of times over and over again in the sweltering heat?
    Probably not, you'd probably die.

    All things were like this, the reality is you are a lot stronger than those men. You're not tougher and that's a big difference.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >farm hands lifted hay barrels all day
      Yes, for about one week a year intensively and rest of they year once in a full moon to get fresh hay for livestock.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        rotational crops Anon.
        if it wasn't hay barrels, it was apple baskets, if it wasn't that it was wood logging.
        You seriously think migrating workhands could afford to move around like that?

        So you throw a few dozen apples in a basket, you hand the basket to the guy in the truck, he dumps it, repeat.
        Firewood was same way.
        Just constant sweltering work.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    More manual labor kept them in great shape

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Watch The Manchurian Candidate. Frank Sinatra is way more man than some bodybuilding homosexual. The masculinity that men like him had was internal. The current fad of bodybuilding is an effeminate externalization of masculine features to compensate for a lack of true masculinity. You didn't need to be a bodybuilding, MMA fighting, special forces sigma male to gain your manhood back then. You already had it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That’s a movie character lol you’re just like someone who sees the latest marvel movie and is like “wow Ironman is epic!!!” Literally lmaoing so hard

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Good post. IMHO the ultimate expression of this is Audie Murphy. No flexing. No posturing. No tattoos. Just a quiet masculine vibe from a proven killer.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That's right. Irony is, both Audie Murphy and Frank Sinatra would be called dyel manlets by the insecure losers here today.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          And they probably wouldn't get laid

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Now I know why incels are angry.

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because in the 1950s men spent a min. 2 of hours per day cumming in/beating their wives

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This man was the Michael Phelps of his day. By far the greatest swimmer in the world setting all sorts of records and the women all wanted him. Many people these days who don't know that would dismiss him as a barely in shape dad bod.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      booba

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >These days you NEED to lift to even generate respect.
    No you don't. Try watching less gay content on tiktok to fix your head. and touch grass

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because they had double the testosterone levels of people today. They didn't need to lift to cope. They were quite literally, biologically more masculine.

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They werent poisoned by everything in their environment and weren't on effectively half wages thanks to doubling the workforce

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    many reasons
    one, most of them were veterans from WWII, where they would go millitary training
    two, sports was very common as a hobby
    three, you're looking at the idealised 50's men from movies and sports events-the top 5% of the food chain

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    here's some GI's from WWII. they are IST but they aren't ripped are they

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      > ww2
      > holding an AR

      Jesus frick

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        CIA propaganda. M16, MIG 17s and M48 tanks were extensively used in WWII. officials tried to cover it up using outdate Garands(used in WWI) to hide how technologically advanced America was from the Soviet Union(who, btw, already invented ICBMs in the late 50's)

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >"da CIA kept it super secret, but I'm super clever and found this high res image on da interwebs"

          There is no context in this image to indicate that it was in WWII. The identity discs are australian, and the "giggle hats" almost guarantee that this was post-WWII. Take your pills

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Why the frick did you respond to that guy?

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Masculinity isn't about being some Tate alpha whatever. That's fake and gay. It's being a cartoon. Actual masculinity is being a normal regular guy. "Hey Joe how you doin? Good to see you. How's the family?" That is what healthy masculine men are like, soibois and thugs are two sides of the same coin of missing the mark.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's 50's commie israelite lie bs.
      Real masculinity is the ability to kill as many men with your bare hands as possible.
      Your behavior after that is as meaningless as anything else.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        so I guess multiple felon Quandavious Washington is more of a man than you'll ever be

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >hOw cOmE pEoPlE iN (time period) DIDN"T WORK OUT???
    >wHAAAt do you mEAN they Did?????? hoW do yoU KNow????
    >hOW Do I kNOW???? uhhhh I just DO OKAY???
    Every day with you moronic Black folk.

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I have this theory that masculinity in a Populus aims to reach a certain limit, optimally every man is at least masculine to some degree, but in our modern world the is a large chunk of weak feminine men and a small minority of hyper-masculine men.

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      WWii propogands is way morr kino than the pozzed shit we have today

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    And where did they get you?

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Everyone is fat now. I’m 5’9” 175 lbs which is like… middle range of healthy BMI but I am constantly called skinny or small. I can’t wait til I hit my 40s and those people start having heart attacks waddling down the supermarket isles.

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the chad archetype has always existed
    outgoing, hunter and supportive gatherer
    the 1950's was also a time of transformation in society

    so if you weren't chad, you could always get pussy by being the attractive underdog/badboy

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They could hit their macros with a roast beef sandwich because food wasn't goyslopped yet

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They were veterans
    They did manual labor for living
    Goyslop wasn't as goysloppy
    They used cars far less
    Lesser calory intake
    Less sugary food and drinks
    That's a painted picture

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    My grandfather (82) said people in his days did body exercise without weights
    He says he used to do 80 push-ups
    My grandfather is a fat piece of shit today but he has photos to prove it
    He looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger's weaker but still impressive brother
    I keep one of my grandpa's pictures as fit inspiration

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Being masculine and looking masculine are two different things.
    A flaming homosexual can be jacked as frick and look masculine without actually being masculine.

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    food was free from a lot of the chemical shit that became common later, and most meals were prepared from scratch.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      How do you avoid chemicals/estrogen? I already got a water filter, eat meat, move around, have good posture, and do physical shit. This is the final piece of the puzzle.

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    does he look like he lifts?

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The decline of men is largely due to microplastics that are in everything.

  46. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Its funny because youd think it was easier now. Zoomie males are the gaygiest most effeminate and contrarian generation, literally painful and obnoxious to be around. You wouldn’t have to be very masculine to look good by comparison. All youd have to do is take care of yourself and not be an insufferable homosexual and people, including girls, would like you. Its so easy but you gays make it so hard on yourselves, like nofap is gonna give you magic virgin powers or something.

  47. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Natural T levels were a lot higher back then.

  48. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    let me guess, your entire knowledge of how people look is based on coca cola ads from that era

  49. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    homie people in the 50s looked like shit, the only thing they had going for them was being thin because food was so much different.
    This is John Wayne at his physical peak. We are talking a movie star known for his masculinity at the peak of his physical appearance, lifting and eating like a movie star. The shit you just posted as OP image is a commercial. It's the image of a perfect life which never existed. Google up "pictures 1950s" and you will realize men were baby-faced skellies and nothing more. No real muscle or body shape.

  50. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >implying today's masculine men lift weights

  51. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    take off those rose tinted glasses. i mean sure there are more fat fricks now but i'm pretty sure your idea of a 50s man probably comes from old adverts and tv shows

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