Bodybuilding (LINK)
May 30th 2008 08:47
Surfing the Net just now, I came across a site that boasted over 20,000 pages of information on bodybuilding which is updated on a daily basis. Find out how you can lose fat. You can also buy products on the Body Building Web site.
Over 20,000 pages? This was why the Web was invented? To tell us where we could find bodybuilding supplements, and information on how to become one of those top-heavy guys who wear the skimpiest of pants and appear in public rippling their seemingly endless series of muscles?
Bodybuilding is obviously big-time – and not just on the Web. But at the end of the day what do you do with a body that’s muscle and virtually nothing else? (There may be a good reason why these guys where such skimpy pants!) Can you hang around the house flexing your muscles and impressing your kids? Unlikely. Can you show how you can lift three or four of them up at a time? Interesting, but not so exciting after the first few attempts.
Does the bodybuilt woman do the housework any more efficiently, or get through the tasks at the office more speedily, or climb the stairs faster than the lift gets there?
And when you finally decide to give up all this bodybuilding (admittedly some of them go on forever) what happens to all those muscles? Do they become stringy flabs hanging off the skeleton?
I often think that the rugby players who get all the adoration from their fans must have the same problem: they’ve spent years getting fit, building up great thundering thighs (either for shoving the other team over in the scrum, or for hunking down the field casting aside every other player) and suddenly in their forties they’re left with legs that don’t fit any normal off-the-peg pairs of trousers. Worse, those same legs don’t actually carry them along any faster than the bloke who hasn’t spent all those years doing the fitness thing.
Seems to me that bodybuilding – even if there are 20,000 pages (just on one site) about it – leaves you no better off in the end. Better to build the big muscle inside the cranium!
Over 20,000 pages? This was why the Web was invented? To tell us where we could find bodybuilding supplements, and information on how to become one of those top-heavy guys who wear the skimpiest of pants and appear in public rippling their seemingly endless series of muscles?
Bodybuilding is obviously big-time – and not just on the Web. But at the end of the day what do you do with a body that’s muscle and virtually nothing else? (There may be a good reason why these guys where such skimpy pants!) Can you hang around the house flexing your muscles and impressing your kids? Unlikely. Can you show how you can lift three or four of them up at a time? Interesting, but not so exciting after the first few attempts.
Bodybuilder, by rev voodoo
Does the bodybuilt woman do the housework any more efficiently, or get through the tasks at the office more speedily, or climb the stairs faster than the lift gets there?
And when you finally decide to give up all this bodybuilding (admittedly some of them go on forever) what happens to all those muscles? Do they become stringy flabs hanging off the skeleton?
I often think that the rugby players who get all the adoration from their fans must have the same problem: they’ve spent years getting fit, building up great thundering thighs (either for shoving the other team over in the scrum, or for hunking down the field casting aside every other player) and suddenly in their forties they’re left with legs that don’t fit any normal off-the-peg pairs of trousers. Worse, those same legs don’t actually carry them along any faster than the bloke who hasn’t spent all those years doing the fitness thing.
Seems to me that bodybuilding – even if there are 20,000 pages (just on one site) about it – leaves you no better off in the end. Better to build the big muscle inside the cranium!
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