What goes on in the minds of bodybuilders? Competitors describe self-discovery, identity and control, and in a survey of 984 men they differed little from recreational lifters apart from drug use
Oct 27
3 min read
Competitive bodybuilding is often caricatured as vanity or obsession. Plenty of lifters who have never stepped on stage still wonder what drives people to diet down to extreme leanness and pose in front of judges, and whether the sport is psychologically different from ordinary lifting.
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