Last thoughts for the night.

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Have you ever noticed how many people on television, guys, look like muscleheads? Seriously, from "construction workers" to the typical stars, six packs, quads, glutes, biceps, and triceps, all in perfect or larger order. You do realize that is not possible, right?

Having worked out and worked up in strength to near the end of the real scales of strength and form, minus any consumables which might enhance those parameters, I laugh when I see the hulk carrying out some lumber or batman exposing his torso. Even in my prime, I did not really have a six pack. The only guys I ever knew who had those were body builders. Both, as it turned out, used both roids and cocaine. Go figure.

I do wonder what is being used, these days, to gain muscle more quickly and to kill the pain of the mandatory aspects of bulking up. Steroids are still out there and being used, but the practice is in decline or they are finding ways around the urinalysis. The one advantage to cocaine as a painkiller is that it is out of the system rather quickly. Or, it used to be.

I have noted, as well, that there are a lot of deaths among even high school athletes. When a 16 to 24 year old athlete up and dies, it is not because he had a prenatal condition or had over worked in the short term. He took something to boost his abilities and was one of the small number to have it adversely affect his health. What amazes me more is when this happens, everyone says how sorry they are if quietly, the guy is shoved into a casket and then the ground, and the story dies before even that is done.

Another thing to mention, if you are spending 6 to 8 hours in the gym to gain the kind of muscle it takes to look big, you are doing precious little else. You do not have the capacity to become a lawyer, engineer, or doctor. Further, if you have those skills, you cannot actually use them well. Building the body to the level often seen means your body has no resources for advanced mental acuity. You, if not literally exhausted, are used up to go beyond working out. A shallow world indeed.

Yes, I do pick on women. I just thought a dose of reality about men was in order.