Has anybody ever written a truly critical essay on bodybuilding, who doesn’t take steroids or any weird stuff?

Body, building?

Question: what does it mean to “build” a body?

There are a lot of things that you can build in your body. This includes muscles, strength, your sinews and ligaments and tendons, your blood, and your bones.

Body composition, and body proportions?

Simply put, it seems that the overall goal is to increase muscle mass, and lower body fat, a.k.a. adipose fat tissue. Not to “increase weight”, or to “gain weight”, or even to “lose weight”.

Why do people like to use the word “weight“ so much?

My theory is that because it almost sounds too harsh when you tell somebody, or when somebody says, “I need to lose fat“, instead of “I need to lose weight”.

Also, this whole nonsensical notion of quantifying everything. For example, it seems that most guys gauge their own self-worth levels compared to other men is how much they weigh, or how little they weigh.

Problems in body building

Lots of problems here. First and foremost, it seems that everybody is on steroids, some sort of performance-enhancing drugs, testosterone boosters, whether “natural” or not.

Also, there’s a lot of money to be made here. For example, protein powder, whey protein powder, creatine, and all this silly weight lifting paraphernalia which includes weight lifting belts, knee wraps, wrist wraps, etc.

What is the real goal here?