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Bodybuilders Ethnography Analysis

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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 …show more content…

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

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