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Sculpting muscle for judges who will measure your veins under stage lighting.
means The practice of training with weights and strict diet to deliberately increase and shape muscle size, usually for aesthetic display rather than athletic performance.
from A straightforward 19th-century compound of 'body' and 'building,' first used for general physical culture and strength training. It narrowed to its modern competitive, stage-posing sense as figures like Eugen Sandow popularized muscle display as spectacle, and the term stuck as the hobby evolved into a judged sport.
- origin
- eugen sandow turned flexing into victorian entertainment
- diet math
- competitors eat chicken rice broccoli until it haunts them
- peak absurdity
- spray tan exists solely so judges can see abs
- irony
- the strongest-looking humans often cannot lift that heavy