Preface: I’m neither equipped nor here to diagnose anyone with body dysphoria or anything like that.
I totally get the appeal of working out, getting a nice summer/beach body, staying fit/healthy and all that. That’s all well and good. But the degree to which bodybuilders intentionally overdo it just looks awful to me. Like, to me, they all look like tiny little heads atop roided-out, spray-tanned, lumpy, disproportionate looking bodies.
That just looks gross to me, and I can’t see the appeal of wanting to do that to yourself.
That’s kinda why I tagged it “general”. It’s been a good decade or two since cut the cord, but I’ve still caught some TV in the intervening years and don’t recall the bodybuilding competitions becoming any less of a thing. So, clearly, it’s still popular enough to televise :shrug:.