While anyone who has a gym member ship, or has an access to weights and equipment, can engage in
bodybuilding. Muscled male body archetypes are often suited in popular cultural contexts, as in some
cultures it is not. Bodybuilders sometimes expand their imaginations of having enormous muscles with
powerful inhuman strength, so they can channel super strength or endure unimaginable pain in the gym
like for example, (Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1991). They connect with useful images in realizing their
fitness goals, but their behaviors can be influenced by the culture of big muscle forms. Several historical
and popular cultural images show the pictures on how bodybuilders use to envision themselves as
achievers, that others find
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Male bodybuilders might interpret their own bodies similar to macho constructs, many of which
can be violent, or patriarchal. I have deemed the visual influences and social needs that helped shape my
body as a boy in 2012. I also will discuss and show some cultural and aesthetic factors that might help
show how other lifters portray their bodies. By the time I had completed high school, I began to invest
most of my time in the weight room. I was already stunned by the male dominant culture, and began to
question them. This ethnography I will be giving will be providing a platform for my examination of my
years of living as a heterosexual male, and aspiring bodybuilder. I reflect on the culture of manhood, and
masculinity. This study does not discuss the extent to which women’s bodybuilding affects women’s role
of the gendered self of male versus female, however, the culture of bodybuilding presents many variety of
contexts, through which all people could engage in a range of aesthetic experiences, social patterns, and
the dynamics of power. Some describe the muscled body as a fortress and gateway in achieving super
human strength. This description implies that the physical presence of bodybuilders presents a line