I work out to raise my status. For ever since manual labour became unnecessary, manual labour raised in status and is only conducted in high tech gyms.
As a general principle, anything that becomes unnecessary and is conducted for its own sake, raises in status.
Why, even celebrities have abs now, and that condom full of walnuts, Arnold Swarzenegger, became Governor of California, and would have become the President of the United States of America, if only he had been born in the right place.
Meanwhile, with every lift of the bell bar, I raise my social status.
Eat your hearts out!