We all know about the dad body trend, frat boys across America skipping the gym and drinking that extra Natty every weekend in order to maintain that perfect “I don’t care and I also will make a great husband” look. But what about the guys who go to the gym all the time and are self-conscious? To the guys who who hit the gym every week, we haven’t forgotten about you.

The bottom line, boys have body issues too. Everyone always talks about how girls are objectified in the media and how they are held to absurdly high standards. While this may be true, guys don’t really have it that easy either. From absurdly bulky guys strutting around in tank tops at the gym, to Instagram fitness models, dudes are bound to feel insecure sometimes.

For every magazine that teaches women to "slim down" or trim and tighten their tummy, there is something for guys about bulking up, and building a more masculine frame.

The difference between guys and girls is that guys may not vocalize it as much as girls do. I've never seen guys sit around complaining that their salmon chinos make their a** look big. However, just because guys don’t talk about their body image issues the way girls do doesn’t mean that they don’t exist.

College is this weird in-between time when guys aren’t boys anymore, but aren’t quite men yet. This becomes apparent when you sit in class between someone who looks like they have a 401K with a full beard and a deeper voice that comes with puberty and the scrawny boy who barely looks like he’s 12.

This can’t be easy for men. Some guys are fully developed, with so much muscle they have no idea what to do with it. Other guys can barely curl 15-pound dumbbells. It’s awkward. There’s a huge development gap.

When I asked some guys about this issue and how they felt about themselves, most seemed confident in how they looked, however a lot of them described their bodies as average.

Herein lies the problem. There is a huge shift in college where your triangle of mental, physical and social health becomes completely out of whack. Most people stay up nights, studying and going out, and forget to take care of themselves. Whereas in the real world, people really take care of their appearance, in college not so much. The trendy thing to do is to not care.

Not to say that girls don’t do the same types of things, substituting the Jimmy Johns for Ben and Jerry’s of course, but guys who describe themselves or their bodies as average perpetuate that lifestyle.

I think guys should make a shift away from settling for the average body, the dad bod, and hold themselves to higher standards. Just because you’re in college doesn’t mean you should let yourself go. There’s something to be said about someone who can drink a six pack and also have a six pack.