What was fitness like in the 60s and 70s? How was the average person, both man and woman, built?
I'm curious since this is before readily available knowledge on the matter. Or at least accurate.
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Manual labour jobs were far more common and less h&s regs, so people were expected to lift heavy things. People also ate less and were more likely to smoke. It was common for men to have almost twinkish physiques but with well developed forearms and grip strength.
Everything was a lot cheaper in general, the post WWII boom. Even a basic job could pay for college tuition or to own a home.
Houses were cheaper but built to a shitier standard than today, college, healthcare, etc was cheaper. Consoomer goods were fat more expensive, especially electronics.
>t. boomer
The inflection point where the obesity crisis began was in the mid 1970s, so until then your average person was what you'd call a healthy human specimen. Note also that they were socially far, far healthier as well.
Combined, around 70% or over of the USA is now overweight or obese. Physically fit people are the minority now, which honestly as a man makes it a lot easier to get women. Just mentally and physically resist the constant bombardment of marketing to overeat and drink corn syrup.
>What was fitness like in the 60s and 70s?
I'm not that old but in the 80s and 90s, it was all high rep, low fat. All of it. And people were skinny af compared to today, even though disagrees. I've been there, I know.
Addendum: I noticed people getting fatter when teh internet became mainstream, really, late 90s, early 00s. By the late 00s, the damage was done.
The average person was in far better shape, at lewst in the 80's. Doing shit like push ups and sit ups was pretty normal and as routine for most people as showering. I remember my father complaining about not having time to work out even though he did a stretch routine, push ups, and dumb bell curls when he woke up every morning. Now people think they're Lou Ferrigno because they do 50 push ups every couple days. This may not have been everywhere but I lived in a small logger city so that may have had something to do with the people wanting to stay in shape too.
Guys were thinner. Having some muscle was good, but nobody cared for mass. So the average guy would be like the OP pic. Middle is a decent example.
Women were mostly either slender. Like Jessica Walter in 'Play Misty For Me' . At worst, kinda chubby. Like Kathy Bates in 'Misery'.
Used those two examples to give you an idea. If you were fatter than Bates back in the day you were comically obese.
t. Ancient anon.
>At worst, kinda chubby. Like Kathy Bates in 'Misery'.
And I was like "Come on bro, kinda chubby? That chick was fat as fatass in Misery". Then I googled here and shit. Fricking shit.
I call it the Costanza effect. Basically, a reverse "people you thought were buff" effect.
Pic related, comically obese in the 90s.
Newman was comically obese, costanza was just a regular fat guy, but your point still mostly stands.
Newman was superhuman obese. Howeverm, by modern standards... sure, he's fat... but most of us are probably fatter.
Aw shit. I'm fatter than Newman when I'm bulking.
If you really want a shock look at what was considered 'atheletic'in the 1940's and before we that.
We nowadays greatly underestimate the impact of availability of food nowadays.
It's only two generations ago that most people were happy to be able to afford meat and or fish once a week...
You might also reexamine your rpg characters. Noone in Medieval times will have had the physique of modern bodybuilder like you now see in every fantasy rpg.
>It's only two generations ago that most people were happy to be able to afford meat and or fish once a week...
The frick? Are you fricking moronic?
Depending on what timescale that is for you and where you live he is correct. My grandfather was born in 1928 and meat was something he only ate a few times a week in small portions when he was growing up.
>If you really want a shock look at what was considered 'atheletic'in the 1940's and before we that.
Chuds looked quite good then.
The guy is like 5 feet tall.
The fetish for mass started... most of you will say in the 80s with Arnold but that's wrong. Arnold was considered a freak and even he had to lose mass for the movies because it looked bad to the average viewer.
It's really a thing of the mid-late 2010s, with the powershitting/SS/gym culture trends and all. Nobody wanted to be massive in the 80s, 90s and 00s.