It rings very true in Australia. In offices, filled with white-collar social strivers, marathon, biking and triathlon are the sports you do to fit in and social climb. Middle-aged, executives love to boast about their endurance runs for charity. They are always skinny, though often with a gut due to excess cortisol, and prematurely aged, with the red-capillaried faces of those with elevated coronary risk. The last thing they would do is lift to gain size, which would be a social faux pas.
Dr Johnson rumbles with the RawGod. And lives to regret it.