Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Tumblr Thread Says Movies Fuel Unrealistic Physical Standards


This Tumblr thread called out the impacts of movies in terms of fueling unrealistic physical standards, when it comes to fitness. It addresses how bodybuilding culture can manifest in convincing people that they should look a certain way (or that it'd be nice to), when in fact those very images are of folks that are sometimes severely dehydrated. 

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Product - The actor has joined the debate about objectification in TV and film, saying bo genders are judged equally on looks Source G the-critical-feminist My god I love her.

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Text - cruxofargon I know people are gonna get salty af about this but by God she's RIGHT. When Brad Pitt did Fight Club, he was cutting weight for every single scene to maintain his physique at 155. I've you've ever cut weight, you know how horrible that must have been. He did it because they needed a "look". Changing Tatum said his Magic Mike body doesn't last for more than five days. He starved down and dehydrated his already fit physique for a "look". The male soldiers on Spartacus: Blood an

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Text - eldritchgentleman You want proof? Just check out that scene in Captain America: First Avenger where Cap just transformed into that beautiful beefcake of a man. Agent Carter's actress just HAD to touch them muscles, it was completely unscripted. eric-coldfire Chris Evans had to wear shirts so small they physically hurt, and he dislocated a shoulder during the helicopter scene in Civil War. But who cares, girls got to wet their panties watching Captain America flex. guyveranimefan87 If we a

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Human - Yeah, he is ripped, isn't he? Well, it is true, but to get that kind of definition, he went through 36 hour period of dehydration, which caused him to temporarily lose 10 pounds of "water weight".

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Text - Thus during the fight scene he was filming, he was a hair breadth from blacking out whole time, just to look unrealistically muscular. As he said during interview with Steven Colbert, "If You go three days without water, You will die. Then, when You are halfway there they shout 'Roll it!" It's the same with professional bodybuilders who get into periods of extreme fasting and dehydration to lower their fat-to-muscle ratio to inhuman levels, all in hopes of making their muscle definition a

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Bodybuilding - . But only when he partakes in competitions, since it is not humanly possible to live with such low fat percentage of one's body for longer periods of time. I mean, yeah, he keeps a draconian training regime, as well as a very strict diet even off-season, but looks much more human then..

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Bodybuilding - There are documented cases of incredibly fit and muscular bodybuilders fainting on the stage in the middle of their flexing routines, as well as several who outright died, because of cardiac arrest caused by their blood becoming too thick, due to long dehydration.. And let's not forget about Muscle Dysmorphia, colloquially known as "Megarexia" or "Bigarexia". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle dysmorphia Yeah, it's a thing, but it's barely talked about, since it's apparently not

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Text - fierceawakening I had no idea that most people who looked like this are dehydrated until I read posts like this. brunhiddensmusings dehydrated to the point theyre about a day away from actual organ failure okay so chris hemsworth is a absolute god of a man, but hollywood says 'thats not good enough' and for the thor movie he has to spend several days having the juice squeezed from his body untill he looses about a gallon of whats supposed to be him so that he can do 2 days of shooting sce

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Text - wodneswynn Man, when I was like 16 I got so sick of being made fun of for being the fat kid that I took an axe down inna woods, chopped down a tree, and started doing log-lifts all the time. I got strong as fuck, but I didn't lose no weight. I actually got bigger. Same thing happened when I got into fighting. I got even stronger, and I got *fast", man, and nimble, like a cat. Still chubby. Body-builiding culture is a bunch of crap, my dude. Functional muscle is not necessarily toned or le

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Text - systlin You know, I train with (martial arts) a bunch of dudes, and a few bodybuilders have showed up over the years. And every damn one of those huge shredded motherfuckers has the endurance of a fucking newbom puppy. Fifteen minutes into warmups and they're panting for air like like they're about to die. I've sparred them and every one of them telegraphs their moves about two weeks in advance, and are slower than my dead grandpa because their huge useless muscles get in the damn way. No

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Arm - No abs to speak of, a bit of a tummy, and those motherfuckers can pick up one of the weightlifters and throw them. And they're fast. Like, unfair fast. Bodybuilding culture is bullshit. Embrace your status as a giant barbarian and if anyone gives you crap throw them off a mountain. glitterandgoo i love and support all strong, fat people

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