How can you claim it’s universal when from your own words it clearly is not?
Anecdotally, my mental health is much better with a good diet and some physical exercise every week.
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I guess most people don't have enough healthy exercise, getting to the point of enough is definitely a health benefit without question.
But people here recommend going full on muscle building what seems like a shift of their issues more than anything.
Worth trying in my opinion. It has certainly made me feel better about myself. Seeing myself improve every single day in the mirror gives me hope and makes me more motivated in life. It makes me want to do the same for my career too, improve one day at a time.
100% on this. Exercising, especially lifting weights, feels like you're improving yourself after every single session. You will literally see the difference in the mirror.
It's something that you can control. You can't always control how lucky or successful you are in your career. But you can always control your exercising. Once you improve the way you look, you start to feel better and people will also see you as more confident. Slowly, you'll get more opportunities.
Tldr; control what you can first which is your body, and the things you can't control will slowly get better.
Sports, even more weight lifting, have not helped me in any way. If anything it established a wrong body image of myself. Something I never wanted to be or look like. Self-Confidence based on looks sounds fragil and very risky to me.
It's no magic cure and if you sell it as one people might get sad if it doesn't work for them.
It's done the opposite for me. I used to have lower self-esteem. Once I got into shape and visible muscles through shirts, suddenly everyone is nicer to me. Girls are talking to me more. Men are nicer. No bullying.
I quit weed and started lifting weights at the same time. When combined, these two decisions have done wonders for my mental health.
You definitely wouldn't need muscles for that. Getting to love yourself has the very same effect.
You know the joke where people teach you how to be attractive and the first thing you need is "be handsome"? It's similar to lifting weights. You only get the confidence after people find you attractive.
My only point really is that they/whoever needs to find something that boosts THEIR confidence and not blindly follow things that worked for someone else in their specific situation.
Plus there is an obvious issue of people putting their self esteem focus on something else they have little actual control about. That's not a sustainable solution on its own.