Hopefully the scrawny man didn’t lieThis single imaginary discussion describes the ideal body image of today. It used to be different, an old man would say. Men weren't built out of iron, but they were different. Old soldiers would show off their injuries and their shard torn scars in a sauna, of which had caused iron to be in their lungs, throat and in the anal area. Muscles were what they were, but while pioneering government’s given small farmlands the muscle mass was starting to build up. It was, beside the wife and the horses, the only necessary source of energy in the house.
Now people are
pumping their muscles red faced in gyms, a place where how much one lifts is
the measure of a man and a woman. Then the new energy acquired with muscle
strength is used for driving fast cars and for late night clubbing. Sweat
running, bodies glowing. Enough energy to yell at the moon in the morning.
This is what a man
whose strength and speed used to be measured by breaking new records in shot
put and hammer throw can say. A man who used his own body as resistance in
these sports. If you jump 200 times a day, both legs, one at a time, as high as
you can, you can be assured it will start to develop the muscles of the legs,
back and the stomach. The downside of it all was that even back then, through
the outsider’s eyes, it looked ridiculous. Nowadays the “plankers” would get a
man like that into a mental hospital.
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