It surely is. Ascetism and stoicism are extinct virtues, maybe venerated only in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Many of our holy fathers have suffered terrible torture and death, but they even welcomed it. That's why Orthodoxy is so hard to grasp in the West, where people damage their livers just to tame their headache a bit, let's say.
It’s funny, because Paul criticised such thought in Colossians 2:23:
> These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting rigour of devotion and self-abasement and severity to the body, but they are of no value in checking the indulgence of the flesh.
Meaning: sure, looks good, but doesn’t actually help if the suffering itself is your goal.
(Notwithstanding this, Acts 5:41. A lot, in such topics, depends on exactly how you present things.)