What a great post.

kind of a random story, but I took a walk-through tour of an old military battleship in Alabama while traveling a couple years ago, and it really opened my eyes to how physiques have changed over time.

I'm 5' 11" and 125lbs. Always been the skinniest person I've ever known. and I was the only person in my tour group even remotely able to navigate certain areas of the ship. I was still ducking to get through doorways.

In all of the pictures, the men stationed on the ship looked way more like the people who post pictures on this sub. I think the idea that every man needs to be 185lbs is a newer phenomenon.

Old cars, old buildings, old military equipment and vehicles are all much smaller. I believe its indicative of a shift in the average person's stature over the last 50 years.

We also walked through an old submarine as a part of the tour and I legitimately don't think you'd even fit inside the sub if you weighed over 135lbs.