Bodybuilding Culture

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Bodybuilding Culture

Every person has there own hobby or specific activity that can be related to their own personal culture. Even though those people might not realize it those hobbies or activities are shared with other members no matter how big a group or small they may be. My activity that I enjoy and share with a selected group of people is bodybuilding. Even though muscle bound men or women don’t sound like their own culture it is. Bodybuilding is considered an art and way of everyday life for many people who have this interest. Bodybuilding is not a selected culture for Americans either, it is found through out the entire world. California is the most well know state for bodybuilding here in the U.S. it seems the sport started here and has became a sub-culture of that state. Being a bodybuilder has many aspects to a different culture that I would like to talk about. Exercising, eating, supplemental usage, and art and movement of the human body are all encompassed in bodybuilding.
The Gyms are the biggest cultural aspect of this specific group. At the gym is where you exercise and learn more about bodybuilding by talking to others in your social group. Exercising is important of course because that is how you start to build muscle and get stronger. To body build one must be dedicated to working out at least three to five days a week and also be consistent and patient because results do not come over night. Bodybuilding takes years of training in a gym and switching different exercises so that your body doesn’t get use to one specific movement. As stated in the article The culture of Cities by Sharon Zukin she said “Ironically, the exhaustion of the ideal of a common destiny has strengthened the appeal of culture”. I interpreted this statement as people who want the same goal change culture or make a new culture that wasn’t recognized before, meaning if people want muscle or to be in shape they look to the same type...