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The true beginnings of female bodybuilding are in the early ’80s. This also marked the beginning of a long chain controversies about the sport. When most people look at a female bodybuilder, if she is a real bodybuilder, they may not be all that pleased with what they see. Too much muscle may have an adverse affect on people’s reaction. The same effected judges of early body builder contests. The ladies would try to get bigger and bigger following the lead of their male counter parts. Judges on the other hand felt that they had some kind of an obligation to keep women feminine. First, they impose rules on contestants that were designed to prevent them from getting bigger than desired if they wanted a shot at the title. Of course, that met with some backlash. The most famous scandal came in the early 1990’s when judges of the Ms. International contest picked a winner who was only 130 pounds at 5′7″ while there were other female bodybuilders who were much bigger and more developed. The crowd went crazy and Arnold Schwarzenegger reportedly had to intervene by going on stage where he said “the hell with the judges.” The crowd favorite was a woman weighing 162 pounds.
It is no secret that if it weren’t for anabolic steroids (such as the human growth hormone) there wouldn’t be modern body building as we know it today. While doping is illegal, and anabolic steroids are as well, it doesn’t keep athletes from using them. They just make sure they get off of them long enough before the contests so that they are not caught during testing. This may not seem to be a big deal for guy bodybuilders, we are use to seeing muscle heads, but when female bodybuilders resort to the use of steroids, it can have some unpleasant visual side effects. While it is in everybody’s right to look anyway they want (if they can pull it off), it may be that people’s reaction to a the sight of a super-buff woman will never be 100% positive. Even if no security net during the testing catches athletes who use steroids, the bodily transformation of those women speak for itself. It’s not just the size of muscles of the female bodybuilders in certain parts of their bodies such as the arm and the leg muscles, but every other muscle as well such as the jaw muscles. They, too, get big giving the athletes a not-very-feminine look. They are basically transforming themselves into men, that’s how they can look that big.
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