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3 pages in length. Staying fit by maintaining a strong and defined physique is the focal point of many people's lives, inasmuch as they consider their physical well being just as important as their mind. Indeed, the dominant culture of bodybuilding empowers individuals to appreciate the benefits of a sturdy build achieved through the natural course of exercise and diet. However, there is also a counterculture to mainstream bodybuilding that raises questions as to the mental soundness of those who take the otherwise healthy sport to a state of unnatural preoccupation by using steroids to artificially inflate their stature to what many believe is a freakish condition. At issue is how this counterculture has come to erroneously represent the dominant culture because of how steroids have been broad-brushed to include conventional bodybuilding. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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culture of bodybuilding empowers individuals to appreciate the benefits of a sturdy build achieved through the natural course of exercise and diet. However, there is also a counterculture to
mainstream bodybuilding that raises questions as to the mental soundness of those who take the otherwise healthy sport to a state of unnatural preoccupation by using steroids to artificially inflate
their stature to what many believe is a freakish condition. At issue is how this counterculture has come to erroneously represent the dominant culture because of how steroids have
been broad-brushed to include conventional bodybuilding. "Such imagery comes from a variety of sources, including the media, and frequently takes steroids and violence as definitive of bodybuilding and bodybuilding
identity" (Monaghan, 2001, p. 2) II. STEROID USE AND COUNTERCULTURE The physical transformation that occurs with the use - and misuse -
of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) is such that it provides the bodybuilder with a greater sense of self when the objective is to increase body mass. For athletes, there are
virtually no limitations when it comes to the desire for bulking up and reaching greater athletic stature. However, it stands to reason how something that metamorphoses human muscle to
the degree that anabolic-androgenic steroids do must also have an impact upon other aspects of the body; as it turns out, these residual effects have been proven to be detrimental
to the bodybuilders psychological condition, inasmuch as those who take anabolic-androgenic steroids - which "mimic the effects of testosterone" (Ormsbee et al, 2005, p. 60) - have served to "unleashed
a myriad of psychiatric complications such as addiction, depression, rage, and psychosis on themselves and the public at large" (Hall et al, 2005, p. 285).
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