Why do people on social media come down hard on freakish bodies ( muscles) posing on the internet

Knew a gal once who pumped up her eyelid muscles so bad they bulged from offa her fayice like swollen labia.

Her thinkin'?

"When I headbutt guys I don't like makin' out with me, I can throw in a weaponized wink they'll never forget."

Stoopid thing was, gal looked like sum dumb undahsea fish beest before she gaht her eyes done.

Any male skull gaht sense kinda FLED.

Las' thing I heard, she gaht hired as a Safety Pointah Precaution Person by sum goat pettin' zoo.

Message was, "yeah, you can pet these creachures, but do NAHT poke no fingahs up their asses nor cup their balls with no hands -- an' if'n you do, please sanitize aftah."

So, yeah, gal's eyes gaht to play the goats' balls so's the kids could git a sense of what naht to do.

Dunno she bent ovah an' spread 'em for bonus cash, but I would naht put it past her ...

Not all are on steroids. And even if they take testosterone, they also work out like madmen and eat right. Steroids alone won't build those bodies. And genetics carries a lot of the load. You have to be genetically predisposed to grow huge muscles for steroids to work as they do in the most muscular men.

Why do we criticize them so?

You're too young to remember. But I do.....in the 50s and 60s, if you worked out, had a great physique, and ate healthy...you were considered a "Health nut".

But the guys that train for maximum size? I suspect they are compensating for low self esteem, or have the mistaken belief that most women find these hyper muscular men irresistible.

I have a good friend that won the Mr. Ohio contest several decades ago. I asked him about steroids, and he said he used them for only a short time. He said that, although they made him stronger, they also made injuries more likely. Steroids don't build tendon, joint, or ligament strength.

And using steroids over a long period of time actually makes your organs grow too, and eventually makes your muscles shrink. Old bodybuilders and pro wrestlers that have abused steroids for decades are a physical wreck by the time they are sixty...if they live that long.

If you look at old photos of bodybuilders from the 1930s and 40s...you'll see what training alone can do. It's still impressive.

I just watched a special on CNN about steroid abuse among very young men. And yes, they grow fast, and are hyper muscular. But years of hard training and healthy eating will get maybe 95 percent the same results. Just not as fast.

By the way, a 20 year old healthy man's body is flooded with testosterone anyway. A few of these guys take eventually lethal doses out of their excitement and ignorance.


Added later; Why do we criticize the very well developed? The super attractive? The rich? The genius?

It makes us feel better about ourselves. That's my experience.

Are YOU one of the muscle-bound hunks that's receiving all that hate?

Because inquiring minds need to know.

Please respond soon because these are the sorts of things that keep me up at night.

It is easy for me to pick them out too but I really do not give them too much attention although I am in the gym myself too

Judging, or the fear of judging, I guess, holds me back from the gym. I love judging others but just don't like it when it's done to me.

That's a good step forward, Claude. Let us know how it works out. The nearest gym to us is 40 minutes away. My Chinese isn't good enough to know all the exercise words because they aren't part of my daily vocabulary. They'd tell me to do a bench press, and I would start squatting.

Mark

When I was young, all that was cool. If I ever get to a point where I'm jiggling less than a bowl of Jello, I might consider going back to a gym.

On the other hand, maybe that's why I still have too much "jiggle," because I'm not doing it and no one is beside me pushing me forward. I could bench press and squat more than anyone else on my high school football team. My teammates screaming at me, pushing me to do better, made me better. Then I found out the very hard way about things that can go wrong when you are trying to deal with hundreds of pounds on your shoulders trying to squat. Freak accident led to a doctor telling me I can't play or lift anymore if I still want to use my arm. All the sudden, excelling at heavy lifting wasn't fun any more. I went to a gym with my mom a few years later, but it just wasn't the same.

Mark