Or maybe a graceful surrender to reality... as expressed in the 1980s USAF study on pilot fitness that turned up data which made the
PR guys unhappy... here they had spent 40 years since (and decades before) becoming a separate service pushing the "Tall, Lean, Handsome Air Force Fighter Pilot" image, only to find that the
short, squat, weight-lifter type could handle higher G-forces than the "recruiting poster" type... AND that on the average, women could handle G-forces better than men!!
This was true regardless of how much each body type exercised... although those who
didn't exercise fared far worse!