Sure. But the point is there are some fat people that can do things your average skinny office worker never has. I’ve seen chubby guys cycling up mountains in the Bay Area like they do it every week.
There’s an interesting article I read a while back where a woman (who was heavy in part due to muscle mass but also body fat) went to a personal trainer to improve her cycling performance. She had just cycled from SF to LA. Even though the trainer was a professional, certified and likely had a degree, he could not mentally shift from the idea that she was there just to lose weight.
To be fair, carrying less weight will make your cycling performance improve. But from what I recall he was running it like a weight loss program and assumed she’d never been in a gym before. She had filled out a form with all of her exercise history and goals. I would have expected him to work up her back squat, weighted lunges, etc. At least as part of the program.
It doesn’t matter if some fat people are active, the fat is still hurting their bodies. How are their knees doing? How is the stress on their heart? Their arteries? When was the last time they could even stand with their arms hanging down straight at their sides instead of pushed out perpetually at an angle?
When you’re fat for a long time, you forget what it’s like to be light weight, you forget how easy everything feels. Being fat is like walking around with a two 25 pound dumbbells strapped to your body everywhere you go. My fatter friends complain when we go to a dense concert or festival and I can just turn sideways to slip easily through crowds, leaving them behind. Trivial things like this is what you forget when your body has become too large.
