It was impressive. At the same time . . . no matter what the girls get paranoid about, is there any guy who doesn't like the smell of sweat on his woman?
Middle school is definitely not too late to worry about not being macho! I'm older than the World Wide Web and just added 3.5cm (13%) to my upper arm's circumference over 2 months because I felt like it. 😆 But I get to look like this forever anyway.