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.
If you’re talking about modern body builders, yeah I’m with you.
You should see what Arnold looked like at his peak, and read his opinion on what body-building has become. He kinda shares your opinion.
Arnold is great lol. He gets invited to comps sometimes still to speak. He literally, while on stage with winners, will roast them for not being able to vacuum.
There are other divisions of bodybuilding where people aim for that 70’s aesthetic rather than the pure mass monster experiments we see in open. Still not the healthiest thing ever but a huge improvement. At the end of the day stepping on stage is just pretty extreme no matter what, with the extreme dieting and water manipulation in the lead up to the show.
*vacuum is a classic bodybuilding pose in which the belly is “sucked in”. Many modern bodybuilders literally cannot suck in their stomachs due to
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extreme swelling of their internal organs caused by abuse of modern substances.
Its called palumboism aka roid gut or bubble gut
Yep, modern. Should have clarified.