LauraMax
Cathlete
Did anyone see this on TLC? I found it so fascinating--kind of like Supersize She, it was about male bodybuilders, steroids & the other horrible things they do to themselves to build muscle. Some of the stuff was incredibly disgusting & I literally had to look away--there was this one guy who got an infection in his bicep & decided to drain it himself. Not only that, but he FILMED it! So they showed the whole nasty video & I got pretty sick to my stomach. He kept stabbing himself in the bicep & they said he ended up w/two full glasses of blood & pus before he ended up in the emergency room. He is now permanently deformed. Really really gross stuff.
What I found most interesting was the doc who said these men had something like reverse anorexia. I think he called it bigorexia or something like that. He said many of these men had OCD & were willing to do anything, regardless of the long term health effects, to have huge muscles.
But my favorite part was when they were interviewing an ex-bodybuilder who competed in the '70s. He said the industry "changed b/c of one word, & one word only--Arnold Schwarzenegger." I nearly busted a gut laughing. Clearly steroids have intellectual effects as well as physical effects. :7
What I found most interesting was the doc who said these men had something like reverse anorexia. I think he called it bigorexia or something like that. He said many of these men had OCD & were willing to do anything, regardless of the long term health effects, to have huge muscles.
But my favorite part was when they were interviewing an ex-bodybuilder who competed in the '70s. He said the industry "changed b/c of one word, & one word only--Arnold Schwarzenegger." I nearly busted a gut laughing. Clearly steroids have intellectual effects as well as physical effects. :7
