The “New Year’s Resolution” is one of the most ridiculous human customs. You identify a problem you’re having, dream about overcoming it, and then put off taking any action about it until January the first of the upcoming year.

Most of us while scrolling through our social medea feeds have paused on a shredded torso and wondered why ours don’t look like that. The answer isn’t that you’re “broken”; it’s that you’re comparing everyday bodies to a curated slice of the leanest few. In the real world—gyms, pools, beaches—visible abs in men are uncommon.

You wake up with a stiff knee. Or maybe your shoulder feels cranky after a night on the sofa. The instinctive thought is, “Better skip the gym today — I don’t want to make it worse.”