Essay On Scrawn
Scrawn to Brawn
Brian Dimuzio Jr.
Baker College
Scrawn to Brawn
Have you ever wanted to be that guy that turns heads when walking on a beach with no shirt on, or maybe even the guy that maybe breaks necks to check you out? The article by Guy Trebay in the New York Times, “Scrawn to Brawn: Men Get Muscles, Or Pray for Them,” caught my eye with the way today’s society is bringing kids up with the various hormones and drugs in today’s world. Referring to the video or a documentary, he had watched just recently that one of his buddies had reminded him of how much fun he had missed out on.
Guys happen to be much thinner back then, most would say simply because there trying to look exactly like someone they seen in a magazine or on a television commercial. Trebay (2000)(Para3) asserts “Most of them were stoner`s swayback, but that’s aside the fact they were …show more content…
skinny.” Trebay (2000)(Para 3) Being that skinny guy back then during the Woodstock era was acceptable and known as normal back then. Yet in today`s society you would be judged as “a pathetic dweeb,” says Trebay (2000)(Para 4). The women even varied a little different back then, but not as much of a change in this era than the guys. Being able to compare and contrast men from then until now is as easy has holding a picture of a guy from the Woodstock era to a picture of a guy on MTV.
Lou Schular, a fitness editor for Mens Health, states “The ideal man now a days has muscles you can see from fifty feet away,” Trebay (2000)(Para7), yet not minding the fact that most the men who are getting selected for Men`s Health covers also have the washboard stomach and a massive torso. They are also members not only of a self-selecting minority, but of one that`s “super genetically gifted.” Mr. Schuler concedes Trebay (2000)(Para 8) adding: “It`s not necessarily an unreachable ideal, but it`s an ideal.”
Lots of people read Rolling Stone magazine as well as muscle magazines, they’re getting pretty close in their sales prices over the past decade. But now even Wenner Media, Rolling Stone`s parent company, has gotten into the fitness act, publishing its own regular articles in Men`s Journal on how to achieve six pack abs and a nice behind.
Over the years, the number of men receiving cosmetic surgical procedures and hair transplant operations continue to increase dramatically. A recent survey conducted by Dr. Charles Ysalis, a Pennsylvania State University researcher, also found that beyond steroid abuses now considered commonplace among the adult male population. As well as forty percent of American boys twelve and over report that they have experienced with, or plan to use, anabolic steroids to look better as they get older.
With all of the operations and abuse of steroids being used in today’s society, doctors are beginning to see more and more eating disorders particularly in mens` cases. With the abuse of steroids and body transformation on the up rises, Jane Pratt, the editor of Jane the magazine came up with a scheme to poke jokes on Playboy magazine to simply make fun of their air brushed bodies, and or faces in their magazines. They would ask people from all over to pose in creative positions and show them as they were then once complete airbrush some pictures to show how they could be different and what was all about playboy magazine. My feelings on the issue are mixed.
Supporting the fact Trebay says “Most of them (referring to the guys back in Woodstock) were stoner`s swayback, but that’s aside the fact they were skinny,” Trebay (2000), but Dr. Charles Ysalis` argument about the male population abusing steroids not so true. I have looked at various pictures regarding the Woodstock era, and do understand where Trebay was coming from. Also a huge supporter of going to the gym daily, but have yet to ever administer any type of steroid to my body. Denying the fact that men in the Woodstock days were classified as skinny guys, whereas today’s men are more likely to have much more meat on their bones. According to Mens Health magazine`s Lou Schular (Scrawn to brawn, 2000) “The ideal man now a days has muscles you can see from fifty feet away,” I firmly agree with Schular`s statement and feel the same, as well as hope that one day that`ll be me who people are looking at. While today`s society continues to increase in populations as well as body sizes, whether obese or muscular, there will always be a topic for Mens Health to write
about. When it comes to steroid usage in today`s society, I refuse to be subjected to that matter of people accusing men of steroid usage. Just because you see a guy in the gym with overly sized arms with a smaller torso, he deserves the dignity of being thought of as a hard worker. Yet, most people in the gym seeing that type of person automatically assume he uses steroids. I do actually attend the gym and take supplements, but nothing anywhere near steroids. Most people stay with their ritual work outs but to enhance their workout, they may use pre-workout drinks like most do. The pre-workout drink I use is Jack3d, which only contains Arginine Alpha-Ketoglutarate (AAKG), Creatine Monohydrate Powder, Beta Alanine, and Caffeine. None of those would pertain to or even lead to steroid usage or even make you fail a urinalysis test. In today`s world we have experienced many changes over the past few decades, yet still continue to live our lives to the fullest. The difference in body types or people`s sizes, without the plastic surgery has changed very much. People nowadays believe that they may need cosmetic surgery to stand out and be who they truly are, whereas back in the Woodstock era, people were content with the way they looked. Pertaining to the steroid usage from then until now has also changed. There is an obvious case where people, men mostly, use steroids but back then it’s not like they were prohibited or even not used just the fact there was no testing back then to be able to prove who was taking steroids. Not all men take steroids or supplements, but do love to attend the gym on a regular basis, as for in the Woodstock days gyms were very rare but not unheard of.
References
Trebay. G. (2000, August 20). Scrawn to brawn: Men get muscles, or pray for them. New York Times. Retrieved from, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/20/style/view-scrawn-to-brawn-men-get-muscles-or-pray-for-them.html.
Brian Dimuzio Jr.
Baker College
Scrawn to Brawn
Have you ever wanted to be that guy that turns heads when walking on a beach with no shirt on, or maybe even the guy that maybe breaks necks to check you out? The article by Guy Trebay in the New York Times, “Scrawn to Brawn: Men Get Muscles, Or Pray for Them,” caught my eye with the way today’s society is bringing kids up with the various hormones and drugs in today’s world. Referring to the video or a documentary, he had watched just recently that one of his buddies had reminded him of how much fun he had missed out on.
Guys happen to be much thinner back then, most would say simply because there trying to look exactly like someone they seen in a magazine or on a television commercial. Trebay (2000)(Para3) asserts “Most of them were stoner`s swayback, but that’s aside the fact they were …show more content…
skinny.” Trebay (2000)(Para 3) Being that skinny guy back then during the Woodstock era was acceptable and known as normal back then. Yet in today`s society you would be judged as “a pathetic dweeb,” says Trebay (2000)(Para 4). The women even varied a little different back then, but not as much of a change in this era than the guys. Being able to compare and contrast men from then until now is as easy has holding a picture of a guy from the Woodstock era to a picture of a guy on MTV.
Lou Schular, a fitness editor for Mens Health, states “The ideal man now a days has muscles you can see from fifty feet away,” Trebay (2000)(Para7), yet not minding the fact that most the men who are getting selected for Men`s Health covers also have the washboard stomach and a massive torso. They are also members not only of a self-selecting minority, but of one that`s “super genetically gifted.” Mr. Schuler concedes Trebay (2000)(Para 8) adding: “It`s not necessarily an unreachable ideal, but it`s an ideal.”
Lots of people read Rolling Stone magazine as well as muscle magazines, they’re getting pretty close in their sales prices over the past decade. But now even Wenner Media, Rolling Stone`s parent company, has gotten into the fitness act, publishing its own regular articles in Men`s Journal on how to achieve six pack abs and a nice behind.
Over the years, the number of men receiving cosmetic surgical procedures and hair transplant operations continue to increase dramatically. A recent survey conducted by Dr. Charles Ysalis, a Pennsylvania State University researcher, also found that beyond steroid abuses now considered commonplace among the adult male population. As well as forty percent of American boys twelve and over report that they have experienced with, or plan to use, anabolic steroids to look better as they get older.
With all of the operations and abuse of steroids being used in today’s society, doctors are beginning to see more and more eating disorders particularly in mens` cases. With the abuse of steroids and body transformation on the up rises, Jane Pratt, the editor of Jane the magazine came up with a scheme to poke jokes on Playboy magazine to simply make fun of their air brushed bodies, and or faces in their magazines. They would ask people from all over to pose in creative positions and show them as they were then once complete airbrush some pictures to show how they could be different and what was all about playboy magazine. My feelings on the issue are mixed.
Supporting the fact Trebay says “Most of them (referring to the guys back in Woodstock) were stoner`s swayback, but that’s aside the fact they were skinny,” Trebay (2000), but Dr. Charles Ysalis` argument about the male population abusing steroids not so true. I have looked at various pictures regarding the Woodstock era, and do understand where Trebay was coming from. Also a huge supporter of going to the gym daily, but have yet to ever administer any type of steroid to my body. Denying the fact that men in the Woodstock days were classified as skinny guys, whereas today’s men are more likely to have much more meat on their bones. According to Mens Health magazine`s Lou Schular (Scrawn to brawn, 2000) “The ideal man now a days has muscles you can see from fifty feet away,” I firmly agree with Schular`s statement and feel the same, as well as hope that one day that`ll be me who people are looking at. While today`s society continues to increase in populations as well as body sizes, whether obese or muscular, there will always be a topic for Mens Health to write
about. When it comes to steroid usage in today`s society, I refuse to be subjected to that matter of people accusing men of steroid usage. Just because you see a guy in the gym with overly sized arms with a smaller torso, he deserves the dignity of being thought of as a hard worker. Yet, most people in the gym seeing that type of person automatically assume he uses steroids. I do actually attend the gym and take supplements, but nothing anywhere near steroids. Most people stay with their ritual work outs but to enhance their workout, they may use pre-workout drinks like most do. The pre-workout drink I use is Jack3d, which only contains Arginine Alpha-Ketoglutarate (AAKG), Creatine Monohydrate Powder, Beta Alanine, and Caffeine. None of those would pertain to or even lead to steroid usage or even make you fail a urinalysis test. In today`s world we have experienced many changes over the past few decades, yet still continue to live our lives to the fullest. The difference in body types or people`s sizes, without the plastic surgery has changed very much. People nowadays believe that they may need cosmetic surgery to stand out and be who they truly are, whereas back in the Woodstock era, people were content with the way they looked. Pertaining to the steroid usage from then until now has also changed. There is an obvious case where people, men mostly, use steroids but back then it’s not like they were prohibited or even not used just the fact there was no testing back then to be able to prove who was taking steroids. Not all men take steroids or supplements, but do love to attend the gym on a regular basis, as for in the Woodstock days gyms were very rare but not unheard of.
References
Trebay. G. (2000, August 20). Scrawn to brawn: Men get muscles, or pray for them. New York Times. Retrieved from, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/20/style/view-scrawn-to-brawn-men-get-muscles-or-pray-for-them.html.