Greetings All,
I am suddenly discovering how becoming a bodybuilder is like
becoming a vampire. Let’s compare a few parallels:
1.
Questionable diet
2.
Insatiable hunger
3.
Changes in appearance
4.
Obsessive behavior
5.
Painful transition
6.
Veiny skin
7.
Small community of acceptance
All these things
seem a little too coincidental. Vampire
do seem to consume a very high about of protein (albeit in liquid form) just
like a bodybuilder. Most vampires I see in movies or on TV are jacked. Even Pro-tan makes it so bodybuilders and
vampires alike don’t have to go out in the sun.
Vampires and bodybuilders have very odd sleep habits. And just like becoming a bodybuilder, it’s a
very painful transition to become a vampire.
I can speak from
early experience the way people start to treat you differently feels more like
being a member of the undead than a fledgling fitness enthusiast. Also, Bodybuilders (like vampires) seem to be
a close knit group with very little acceptance by the outside world. Of course there are differences. Vampires get a stake while bodybuilders get a
steak. And how would it be if bodybuilders
could not see their own reflection in a mirror.
In any case, my
daily pattern could be described as being similar to the undead: Train to the point of death, sleep as if
dead, wake with an inhuman hunger, and feed on the living (I am an I.T. guy
after all).
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