A 19-year-old youth has been getting attention for challenging male beauty standards by only working out muscles on one side of his body, resulting in an extremely asymmetrical appearance.

Muscle symmetry has long been one of the most important judging criteria in fitness and bodybuilding competitions, and it has long been generally accepted that symmetrical muscle development is paramount for an attractive physique. Now, a 19-year-old youth is challenging these norms by only working out muscles on one side of his body for an extremely asymmetrical look. @TheCrookedMon10 took TikTok by storm last year when he began documenting his #looksminimizing journey by only working out the trapezius muscle on the left side of his body, and he started gaining more attention as the size difference between his two traps grew. Today, after months of only working out his left trap, the youth’s appearance is striking, to say the least.

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Last month, South Korean television featured the bizarre case of a shoe repairman from Seoul who has been conditioning his body by banging his body and his head against a tree for the last five years.

Would you ever pick on a man after seeing him violently banging his forehead against a full-grown tree trunk? I myself would, steer away immediately, which is just what the hero of our story is betting on. Back in April, South Korean TV show X SBS WOW featured a shoe repairman from Seoul’s Sinchon neighborhood famous for banging his head and body against a tree every day. You’d think they had made up such a preposterous story, but this man has the forehead callus to prove that he has been doing a lot of head banging for quite some time.

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