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Muscles in the Media : Part 4 The E-Media
As we have seen over the last few weeks, muscles, strength and general feats of strength have been with us ever since the year dot. When Dave was still in diapers (probably using his milk bottle to build those biceps) Steve Reeves was posing across cinema screens; when Steve was in diapers, Eugen Sandow was appearing in the forerunner of muscle magazines and when he was in diapers, strongmen were showing their stuff at fairs and the theatre. But what of today’s bodybuilders in training? Well, they have the internet and boy, when you start searching for muscles online, you turn up the darnedest things.
If you search on a generic term such as “bodybuilding,” you get all the usual websites on the subject. You can get histories of the sport from Wikipedia, how to get buff from sites like this and in some cases even personal websites of the great and the good of bodybuilding.
And apart from the slight reference to bus making, bodybuilders certainly crop up a lot in the image searches as well, but perhaps the most famous of all the websites to have sprung up over the last few years is YouTube.
Type the term “bodybuilders” there and you are spoiled for choice: pro bodybuilders, amateur bodybuilders, training routines, interviews with bodybuilders, contest videos and if you’re really, really lucky and type in the right keywords you can turn up little gems like this: