Bodybuilding poses were a very particular kind of exercise. Generally speaking, although they looked like nothing more than a way to show off one's muscles, they were essentially a very particular training method, so practicing them well was also very important for bodybuilders. And why did Heath know this?
The answer probably went back to the time Heath had bought an annual gym membership, only to stop going after a month.
Heath had signed up on impulse, thinking he could stick to exercising every day, improve his physique, and become a handsome guy or something. But after keeping it up for a while, he had started finding it unbearable. In particular, the gym's trainers kept coming up with different ways to get him to sign up for personal training sessions, which made him dislike the gym even more. Of course, having to follow a strict physique-management regimen every day was another thing Heath could not stand.
Anyway, it was a sad story.
"...You two still aren't done competing?" Heath looked oddly at Charizard and Bewear in front of him. More than ten minutes had passed, and Heath had even gone into the kitchen to chop ingredients, but these two were still competing over poses. Watching them made his stomach hurt. Fortunately, he was not open for business yet. If he had been, Heath felt his barbecue stall might have earned the name "Muscle Bros' Barbecue," though it might also have attracted some fitness enthusiasts.
But Lavender Town did not seem to have a particularly strong fitness culture. Heath had only seen seven or eight gyms and had not seen any others, though perhaps that was because he had not toured the whole town.
The distribution of establishments like gyms varied from city to city, and Heath actually knew a little