Howie usually makes a lot of sense, but this time Arnold jr makes more.
It’s easy to romanticize the good old days when you were young and bodybuilding was somehow more legitimate. The truth is the ‘good old days’ never were. The sport was just as troubled and the physiques just as distorted then as they are now. With few exceptions the champions back then were just as extreme as the champions of today and their physiques were considered just as freakish.
Sure, we have better drug cocktails today, but the sport has not really changed. What has changed is
you.
You are older, wiser, and have a more subtle view of life that takes you beyond the narrow view of bodybuilding than you had at, say, 20. When you were more simple minded, you were more likely to justify your interest in bodybuilding by thinking of it in terms of health and fitness (a myth promulgated by BB magazines) but now that you are older, you can see that BB and health really have nothing to do with each other. BB is about vanity, health and wellness is not. There are lots of body-minded people who are interested in health who are not interested in cosmetic muscles: dancers, yoga, runners, gymnasts, etc.
As Maxx comically underscores, it is ironic that Howie paired his gone-off-a-cliff rhetoric with a photo of an artificially (drugged up) female bodybuilder.
