The evils of the last century are known, there are many, now countless ...
But among the lovers of the body, sport and well-being in general, terms such as ANORESSIA and BULIMIA have always stood out ... Well, today alongside these it is precisely the case to add another, no less important and worrying: the BIGORESSIA.
THE NEW BAD: THE BIGORESSIA
All this is accompanied by self-punitive behavior, inflicting heavy, often very long, training which leads instead to progress over time to a state of over-training with the necessary psycho-physical consequences as well as drastic and very strict diets or dietary regimes that more often than not they lead to what I would call a form of "social self-isolation".
This emerges when you go out as a group, with friends who may even be gym goers but who don't have the same "fixed" and so, the bigoressico finds himself sitting at the table, even once a month, terrified of having to order a pizza or a beer to return "in the group" or in any case not to prove once again its "asociality".
The deleterious and damaging abuse of food supplements such as proteins, creatine, which favor muscle growth or its maintenance, and in extreme cases anabolic steroids, GH, and so on is not to be overlooked. This pathological behavior can lead to mood disorders, states of anxiety and alterations in social relations, becoming a condition that is sometimes unsustainable as well as harmful, if we think that a man (or a woman) certainly cannot live his days in operation of diet and training, having a job, an emotional life, maybe a family and always little time available.
Doctors speak of a sort of "inverse anorexia", as the anorexic refuses food in search of a constant and greater thinness, often up to physical self-annihilation while the "bigoressico" looks for all possible ways (training to the extreme, hyperproteic diet, abuse of drugs and "stimulants" ...) an ever increasing muscle volume, living in fear of losing even a single ounce of muscle or seeing even a very small "thread" of belly that covers the "coveted abdominal turtle".
I believe that this problem is too underestimated ... Every day I observe in the weight room these perfect "hypertrophic big men" like Riace bronzes, slaughtered under barbells and dumbbells, screaming from the effort almost to underline their own "thickness" and mirror themselves constantly to control the volume of the biceps or the pumping of the pectorals just "broken on the flat bench".
Sometimes I seem to be prisoners of the mirror, slaves of their image and the fear of being told "But, I see you a little smaller lately '... Woe to be made to make an observation of the kind! Shelter your eyes blushing and looking desperately to see if indeed it is so.
It is not surprising therefore that this pathology was also renamed as "Complex of Adonis", a figure from Greek mythology representing the idea of male beauty as physical perfection in aesthetic form.
It is curious to note how the evolution of the concept of "physical perfection" and that of "material" models available, for example, in the world of toys, have gone hand in hand.
It was Harrison Pope himself, the author of the first research on the subject, to observe the particular and obvious evolution of the infamous BIG JYM, toys so much in vogue in the years of Barbie.
The first Big Jym (from the distant 1964) was in fact morphologically similar to an average man, in the form yes, but not excessively thin or hypertrophic ... with time and years, with the advent of Business Fitness, while Barbie always lost weight more up to the current with ibex legs and pelvis with almost inferior diameter to the head, the Big Jim grew more and more in musculature, becoming similar to the current classic body builder who builds his body with not always legal and healthy aids ...
What to say...
Even body building, like the competitive sport with doping, constantly undergoes changes in the conception of its own meaning, often ending up being a double-edged sword, having an admirable goal that then deviates towards less advantageous roads and employing often harmful means and dangerous.
Conclusion: better a thin thread of "pancetta" but a dazzling smile and a happy and free life that an abdomen tortoise "artificially" and a life conditioned by external stereotypes and among other things in continuous change.
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