by BodyBM » August 29th, 2013, 3:12 am
Wow a great discussion!
As you said xdude, obviously anorexia touches mainly females, bigorexia rather males. And just the opposite of each others like female and male. Somehow it is in our genes, alpha male as the strongest, most masculine between men. And for females to be feminine fragile, thin and pretty and soft for touch men eyes and hearth. And I think it is great when a man wants to be big and strong and when a female wants to be rather thinner but not fat, just the more extreme cases are horrific I think. In mild cases I don't see much problems if the mania doesn't grow later bigger and bigger.
As I rethink the topic in your view, I agree you. But do you think profs. don't obsessed to muscle grows too? And can you imagine they will think any time in their life "I'm already perfect in all ways and big enough so I don't want my muscles to grow anymore"? Or are they lazy and not strict almost limitless about themselfs in eating and training? (the bigorexia main criterions). I don't know, just thinking about.
Even they give it up do bodybuilding in their later life, I'm sure they still think a lot about "I want to return, do it again" even the force maybe not enough big to really brings them to return.
Pro bodybuilding is not primary about health (but of course health is always in priority) but about the perfect form of appearance. Just think to their heavy bulkin/cutting diets and trainings, diuretics, thirsting before contests, etc very big load and challenge to their whole body and mind and I don't think we can call it somehow healthy. Mainly when they getting older and so their body can't adapt and regenerate so well. Very low bodyfat isn't healthy at all and can be fatal. Under 14% for female and 8% for male increases health risks, like hormonal imbalances, cardiovascular problems, immune system compromises etc. But it can change from person to person. And really hard to keep the muscle mass too on that low bodyfat for relatively long time without use some drugs. So the healthy balances absent in a lot of relations.
Ah I wrote that bigorexia is rather a praise than a curse for a prof. in the delinquent own view, not as outsiders see. A praise in his/her view to helps reach the main goal of his/her life as be bigger, even as we see it is a quick way to the grave.
Agree! Extreme cases in both state is fatal sooner or later, sure.
I think a lot of guys who do bodybuilding just try to compensate some imperfections of their mind (eg. low self esteem) or their body (eg. little c.ck haha) or both, with build a more masculine body and try to appear from the average people, and later this compensation action maybe grows into bigorexia. I'm in this shoe just my c.ck is not little. Haha
As I see there is a specified threshold in the seriousness of bigorexia when a concerned person's health jumps to be exposed to risks. I mean as you said, when starts to use hormonal drugs like T, insulin, hgh, and other kinds like dnp, long term ephedrine, etc. Or inject synthol into muscles to "grow them". It can be dangerous and can be life threatening and even fatal (greatly overdosed insulin can kill instantly), but not mean exclusively health damages just there is serious possibility of it and sometimes it just happens. As fatal accidents happen sometimes in hospitals too with any drugs as a result of malpractices or stupidity or an unforeseen chain of events.
The most problematic when the mania gets mixed with mindless stupidity, it can be as destructive and fatal as a time bomb in the ass.
Agree with you totally, bodybuilding is a form of self imposed slavery to their own body. Correctly as you said! And it is challening, mainly when have jobs, family/kids, other hobbies.. But it also teaches to be highly consistent, persistent and tough, in other aspects of life too. It is a lifestyle!
Also it it feels really good when I do my training. It somehow like a sex or a light drug, just feels good. So I do it because I enjoy a lot to do it, and enjoy the satisfied tiredness after, not just cos I want to grow my muscles.
By the way a direct abstinence from sex is sometimes used in sports, directly before contests, because believed that a recent sexual action depletes a lot of energies from the body, and men can perform better in sports when keep sexual energies before do the contest.
I also experimented a lot how the sex/orgasms affects my body and strength, just because I'm curious to everything. And I observed that sex is good in all ways, just don't overdo it for long term because it really depletes all of energies then. So there are healthy limits for everybody that should not be exceed.
An interesting aspect, anorexia and bigorexia just like alcoholism. The sufferer doesn't relaize that really suffered/addicted by something. Just tell to an obviously alcoholist person "You are an alcoholist, stop drinking!" and he/she will answer back: "NO I'm not at all alcoholist! Why do think so!?" So just denies that, I observed this many times. I think the same could perceptible from an ano/bigorexic people. I recognized and know about my medial bigorexic mania and I can handle well, cos my personality is very stong, I know what I want, and I want to keep my health well as my family needs me for long time, so it is first priority, build muscle only after somewhere.
Ahah I was just mainly joking about to grows my mania even further. : ) As I said I can handle it really well and I see everything about it crystal clearly in my case. Just I'm curious about the content of that kind of script or a file, how it could try to curse the reader/listener to grows muscles.. So sure I would love to hear that, I'm in charge. Huh