>>4052645Do what professionally? There haven't been professional combat archers for 200 years even in the holdouts where it lasted longest. The only professional archers today are youtube showman and olympians, neither of which use bows with draw weights sufficient to dictate their build. Although they don't tend to be fat from what I've seen.
But there was the guy in that one Todd's workshop video about longbows vs plate armor who did the whole "training from childhood" deal to be able to shoot a high draw weight longbow. And he looked like a normal fit man. Which is to say, not fat like that boy.
Softness like that only comes from fat. And enough of it to obscure whatever muscle is underneath. I'm not especially fit and even my arms have more definition, and they did when I was a boy too. If they were going for muscular, they failed. But given the way he looks, down to the artstyle, they were likely going for fat on purpose and succeeded.
