Taking a look through the news today I stumbled across this article - Weightlifters suffer 'manorexia' | News.com.au - There's been a bit of a this type of news happening around the place recently...
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canned tuna
Member
You shall not have more muscle than the average person
it is unhealthy
it is unhealthy
pistachio
Member
The condition dubbed as `manorexia,' results in sufferers being determined to become more muscular, despite some exhibiting more muscles than the average person.
What a poorly worded sentence. So just because you have more muscle than teh average person (which is very little), it is abnormal for you to want to be a bit bigger?
I think this is a condition which some people have (eg synthol abusers), but the way it is described in the article is ridiculous.
What a poorly worded sentence. So just because you have more muscle than teh average person (which is very little), it is abnormal for you to want to be a bit bigger?
I think this is a condition which some people have (eg synthol abusers), but the way it is described in the article is ridiculous.
wingman
Super M0derator
There's nothing at all wrong with wanting to be bigger and isn't necessarily manorexia. Just like it isn't necessarily anorexia if one decides to lose weight.
It's the absolute obsession with either that can cause problems. Same as gambling, drinking, whatever.
C_T
Kunce of the Year 2015
doesn't really say alot, i mean hell, given the right population subgroup there's atleast 10% of women with fake breasts.
so 10% of males training think they small, nothing new... fat people wanna be lean, small people wanna be jacked, straight hair want curly... the list goes on.
so 10% of males training think they small, nothing new... fat people wanna be lean, small people wanna be jacked, straight hair want curly... the list goes on.
coaltrain
New member
Megarexia I've heard it called. Just wanting to get bigger. Not being big enough in your own mind. Being HUGE! I think thats what my penis suffers from. I just like not being a scrawny ****.
Pretty sure everyone wants to be bigger/smaller/ leaner/ hotter/ tanned-er/ skankier/ awesome-er/better than they see themselves now. It's a social conditioning. Don't blame us for being that way, we're just products of our environment.
Pretty sure everyone wants to be bigger/smaller/ leaner/ hotter/ tanned-er/ skankier/ awesome-er/better than they see themselves now. It's a social conditioning. Don't blame us for being that way, we're just products of our environment.
Grippy
Fat Member
So true right there.
Haha
Who would have thought; a one sided discussion about manorexia on a body building forum!
I think that it is a real issue. Just like bulemia and anorexia affecting those in the relentless pursuit to become thin. Manorexia is the extreme desire to continue with muscle building to ridiculous proportions or an endless pursuit of 'perfection' above all else.
Who would have thought; a one sided discussion about manorexia on a body building forum!
I think that it is a real issue. Just like bulemia and anorexia affecting those in the relentless pursuit to become thin. Manorexia is the extreme desire to continue with muscle building to ridiculous proportions or an endless pursuit of 'perfection' above all else.