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Description: Why, after a long days work, do we go to the gym to carry on working? Is the gym the factory of our times?

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Why, after a long days work, do we go to the gym to carry on working? Is the gym the factory of our times?

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The Story of Muscle

Getting Ripped

Why, after a long days work, do we go to the gym to carry on working? Is the gym the factory of our times?

Getting Ripped (4/10)

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Body building has been around for over a century, but more as something to stare at rather than aspire to. But now, aesthetics have changed and bulky is beautiful.

Getting Ripped (1-10)

Body builders used to be featured in Victorian freakshows, but now, bulk is beautiful

Strong Is the New Skinny

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Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall...

Bodybuilding challenges traditional notions of gender. Are bodybuilders on the podium highly sexualised or asexual instead?

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Gender and Muscle

Bodybuilders get ever bigger bodies that look as if they could burst. What is behind the bigger is better mantra?

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XXXL - Bigger is Better

Guns of steel, solid as a rock, hard as iron: Bodybuilders are the ideal embodiment of man in the Industrial Age, man as machine.

Getting Ripped (6/10)

Man as Machine

Muscles were central to the Hollywood dream machine from the start present in anything from biblical epics to superhero movies.

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Hollywood: Factory of Muscles

Is the cult of the body and muscles a right-wing affair? Or is bodybuilding a truly democratic sport that swings towards social democracy? From fascists to communists, everyone has their muscle-ideology.

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From fascists to communists, everyone has their muscle-ideology.

Muscle Politics

America’s final frontier, California was the birthplace of bodybuilding. The beach became a show-ground for the first musclemen in pleasure-seeking southern California.

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The beach became a show-ground for the first musclemen in pleasure-seeking southern California.

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How do bodybuilders deal with growing old and the potential loss of strength and muscle mass that it brings?

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