I hear what you’re saying but this not simply a matter of me projecting my desires onto others. For one thing it is not necessarily my desire.
And for another, we’re not just talking about some random person, who sees a bodybuilder approves of the physique and moves on. We’re talking about the population of people who devote their time, resources, and recreation (someetimes for years) to muscle life: going to shows, subscribing to magazines, buying overpriced DVDs, posing at expos with one bodybuilder after another. If you have one or two pix of your ideal physique for inspiration, I’ll buy that. But that’s not the population I’m talking about.
Perhaps you are in that .0001%?
Bay, I kinda have to agree with Dingleberry on this one. Now I have never been to a bodybuilding show, and I do not buy the magizes any more, I did when I was younger. I have alway admired the aesthetics of a well built physique, both male and female. As a teenager I read Pumping Iron, and I somewhat followed pro bodybuilding, back in the Robbie Robinson days, but it was always in the context of wanting to look like that(even tho I knew I couldn't as a super ecto skinny kid), much like I would watch Gayle Sayers or OJ Simpson and then go run around the back yard wanting to be like them. I have definitely learned from being on this board, that there is a lot of gayness involved in bodybuilding, but I also think there is a large group that just respects the kind of dedication it takes to have a great physique, and also just enjoys working out themselves for multiple reasons.
