Body building is considered a very competitive sport for both men and women. These are people who spend a great majority of their time at the gym. Having incredible amounts of muscle mass is what is expected of them. Some people body build for fun and some body build because of the obsession of getting bigger which is can be a sign of muscle dysmorphia. Muscle dysmorphia is a disorder where one always feels too skinny or to small. It is called bigorexia, muscle dysmorphia is the opposite of anorexia nervosa. People who have this become obsessed wanting to get bigger. They worry that they are too little and too frail. Even if they have good amount of muscle mass, they are always dissatisfied with their bodies. Some signs of this disorder would be of the following: one who is preoccupied with being more leaner or stronger, very strict diets, long hours at gym,and an impaired social life. Those with this disorder most of the time become uninterested in important goals such school or education or career accomplishments, they also put bodybuilding as a priority as opposed to family, friends, dating, and they do not stop if they are injured. Those with this disorder use drugs which include steroids, and other unhealty supplements and exercise because they are afraid if they stop they will go back to their old self. One example of a female bodybuilder who used steroids was hospitalized for kidney failure because of her high protein diet and her consistent use of drugs. When she was released months later she was back using drugs and an unhealthy diet. Unfortunately those with this disorder refuse to get help.
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This reminded me of a wedding reception I once helped with. The groom was a bodybuilder and all of his friends that were invited were bodybuilders as well, the majority of them being a part of the natural physique category. We had set up a beautiful little buffet with vegetables and sushi, nothing fattening, plenty of vitamins and fiber. The female bodybuilders didn't eat a single bite of any of it. They were almost obsessed with making sure their caloric intake didn't exceed a certain amount. They didn't use any steriods because they couldn't be larger than a certain size, but they had to be noticeably larger than the average woman, that was why they were on strict diets and intense workouts. When I spoke with one of the women, nearly everything she talked about had to do with bodybuilding. There weren't alot of other activities that she did that didn't have anything to do with bodybuilding because it's a full time commitment. It happened with everyone of the bodybuilders I spoke with, they ate, slept, drank, and breathed bodybuilding. One of the men I spoke with explained to me why the women were like that, and that he respected them for that because they were doing it through a natural process (as in no steroids. They worked out over 10 hours a day).
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This is definitely a major problem, not just with female body builders, but male ones as well. This obsession with becoming as big and muscular as possible has perverted the sport. It seems the only people who find this attractive are people who into bodybuilding. The average person sees it as weird and gross. From what I understand, there is a movement in the world of female bodybuilding to include feats of dexterity such as gymnastics as part of the competition. I don't know if this is going to fix the problem. The only way to fix it is to start penalizing bodybuilders for using steroids. But that will probably never happen. Almost no men or women are capable of achieving these types of bodies naturally. Even those who claim to be natural body builders are usually using steroids. This sort of obvious drug abused is indirectly encouraged in the bodybuilding world and it no longer represents what it originally was, a celebration of the beauty of the human body, both male and female.
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ReplyDeleteJonathan Cocco
I believe that bodybuilding has become a sport of freak shows. when Arnold Schwarzenegger was at the top of the sport it was all about having the perfect shape and symmetry you could achieve with your body. today it seems to be about how freakishly big you can become. i find this scary because that means that steroid use has increased and the quality of the steroids has gone up substantially. Women have become bigger and bigger in the sport as well. the women that body build and use steroids usually have masculine features due to the testosterone in the steroids. this is scary because we do not know the long term effects of this on women, could it cause cancer or other long term diseases?
ReplyDeleteJ. Cruickshank
I had a friend from grade school get into intense bodybuilding, seeing him after close to a decade was such a mindbending experience. It looked like the head of my childhood friend transplanted onto the body of a mutant. He claimed to be practicing all natural, but would frequently mention "nat-tet boosters"... I took a peak at these on Google an it all kinda sounded like a game of self deception :\
ReplyDeleteI don't even know where to begin with female bodybuilders... I've mainly encountered them through profiles from online dating sites and it always feels so surreal. The effect is two-fold because they look like a chimera of a normal woman's head transplanted onto a caricature of a musclebound man's body. Long before I ever get to deep concern about the actual physiological effects this has on their female anatomy, I immediately experience an uncanny-valley response of the highest magnitude.
I understand they may be well received within their communities but this leaves me especially confused as to why they would use conventional dating services...