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Hello everyone, I know this is a political/historical blog but I decided to bring just a random topic in here, teenage bodybuilding. Teenage bodybuilding has affected me and a lot of my friends that’s why I thought I should aware you all of it. Before I do that, let me explain to you what ‘bodybuilding’ is in general. Bodybuilding is a form of body modification. This kind of modification involves growing your muscles, follow proper diets and loose fat. This ‘sport’ first started in late nineteenth century and became most popular in 1970s. Within last few years it became so popular that there are even social networking websites created just for bodybuilders to communicate and exchange ideas.

“Why did you start bodybuilding?” is a question that I got asked a lot within last few years. As any bodybuilder, I had three answers to that question: to improve my abilities in sports and other activities, to be more attractive to the opposite sex and to improve my body to feel the accomplishment of getting bigger and greater muscles. I have contacted ten of my friends who do bodybuilding, just to make a simple survey showing why they started doing bodybuilding. The results came up very similar to my predictions, two of them said it was to improve their abilities in sports, three of them said it was to feel that drug-like feeling of accomplishment and five of them admitted it was to be more attractive to the opposite sex.

Lately I was also asked another question, “Well when you got all of those three points covered, you are good in sports, you have no problem with finding a girlfriend and you got bigger muscles than an average person. Why do you keep working out even more?” well the answer to that question varies for many people. However, I can say on behalf of at least a quarter of bodybuilders out there in the world that we are just addicted. We are simply addicted to the improvement, we are addicted to the adrenaline and we are addicted to the actual process of working out. When we take those weights and start our exercises, the feeling of our muscles tensing, the veins become more and more visible and blood pressure rising, those feelings give us a form of adrenaline rush, not only does it feel us with energy and excitement but it also relaxes us. We enjoy this gallant and rough sport so much that it puts us in a trance of peace and there is nothing better for us then to know that we will wake up next morning with improved body shape.

It’s not only boys that do bodybuilding, girls do it too. The difference between boys’ and girls’ bodybuilding is that girls usually use more… artistic methods. Usually it would be something like aerobics, gymnastics or dancing, more focused on losing weight. I also did a small survey on why girls want to start bodybuilding; I was not surprised when I got my results even though I asked girls which do completely different styles of exercises and do different activities. I asked girls who do aerobics, girls who do gymnastics, a football player, rhythmic dancers and even a girl who does pole dancing exercises. All of them had the same basic answer, “girls just want to see themselves fit”.

Usually bodybuilding takes months or sometimes even years for a great improvement and to clearly see results. There are however, very easy and quick ways you can get all the muscles in just couple of months; those are steroids and protein shake powder. Even though this sounds like an easy way into the world of big muscle, it’s still something we bodybuilders call cheating. There are also more negatives to them besides the fact that you would have to carry the shame of having ‘fake muscles’. Steroids are drugs with a lot of side effects such as high cholesterol, acne, high blood pressure, liver and heart damages and even the most well known side effect about steroids, that male sex organs, testes, get smaller, is also true. Protein shakes powder cause fewer damages but they still cause liver damages because of too much protein which our body system cannot handle. One of the other common side effects that both steroids and protein shakes powder have in common is the fact that once you stop working out, all that muscle will no longer be muscle and will make the person look even fat.

A couple of years ago I asked my friend in Ukraine, Kiril, who uses steroids, why he uses them. I mean, he works out every day, he could easily get fit without using them, and using steroids are like silicon for women, it looks good but it’s fake. He replied to me saying “I just love watching my muscles grow, I can see them getting bigger and bigger every single day, and naturally I can’t get them as big as I can with a little help from a little drug”. No matter how big the muscles are, I still will never see how they can be proud of their bodies if they didn’t get it without using chemicals.

Moving on to the next point now, before you start any type of bodybuilding or exercises, you should contact and take advice from a physician or at least from someone who is experienced in this field. I would like to bring an example of what might happen if you don’t take advice from someone or just not even follow it. I found a case on the Internet and it did not give the boy’s name so I’ll call him John. John started doing heavy lifting and he had great progress but he kept on putting more and more weight. His trainer told him to slow down, take a break or he would have severe injuries and problems with his body. John did not listen to his coach, acted arrogantly and completely ignored his coach’s advice so he kept on putting even more weight in his exercises. This over-training caused him spinal problems and now he is paralysed waist down, being unable to run, walk, do even the simplest exercises and will never be able to do body building again.

To conclude my speech, I would like to tell you that bodybuilding is like most things in the world, has its good and bad sides and you all would benefit from it if you do it right and have the right dedication. Dedication is really important in bodybuilding, you can’t stop or it will all be for just a little progress whereas you can get so much further. So if any of you are planning on doing any sort of bodybuilding, I hope none of you will make the same mistakes as John did.

Out of all the energy resources there are out there, the most common and most used one is oil. As we all know, burning oil (which is how energy created) creates carbon dioxide which damages our atmosphere, and creates many problems, so why not use renewable energy resources or resources which do not damage our environment.

Take for example two of the Western-European countries, France and Italy. Italy uses normal ways of producing energy while France is one of the top nuclear energy producers. Both countries produce same amount of energy however the electricity bills in France are much cheaper. Just one gram of nutonium can produce more energy than one litre of oil. Not only will that benefit the bill payers but also it will be a lot more envirnment friendly.

Ofcourse these projects cost money but we all can realise that it will help and benefit us all in the long run and that’s what we all have to focus on right now, the future. Nuclear power isn’t the only way, there is wind power, hydro electric power, solar power and more. Each one of them do not cause damage to our atmosphere and they last forever. Why do we need to depend on oil so much when we can use resources that are better and cheaper?

I know I was off for some months but I’m back now and ready for more debates and arguments. I will add a new post within next few days about one of the most debated subjects and right now you might guess what it is.

Well here are few of the many things you might want to check out which are now popular on the web:

- Homeless man with the ‘Golden Voice’

- Two large space-ships located near Pluto

- Ways of reducing Greenhouse Effect by not producing so much CO2

- Teenagers are into body-building more than ever

- Stoning women in Muslim countries

We all know that World War Two changed the way our world is run today, it changed alliances, political opinions and even borders. But so did the Napoleonic War.

World War Two brought some countries together and make them work harder to industrialise so one might say that on one side, World War Two helped the world to advance (despite the millions of casulaties). Napoleonic War, brought also allot more advancement in technology. Europe had connections with the Americas and brought new cultures all round the world. It also was responsible for borders of Europe, especially French. So if the French won, conquered the land which today is Germany, there would be no World War Two.

Note: Please read my ‘About‘ page to ‘get to know me’ better if you are going to read my further blogs. This is my first one and there are going to be more.

As the title says, this page is about American influence on the world. The two key questions are the following:

• Is that influence for better or worse to the world?

• Whose idea was it to intervene all governments? American citizens’ or their government?

For the first question, I would have to say that it’s for the worse. They broke down the Soviet Union (in a way it was a good thing but USSR was going to change over the years anyway so that is a very debatable subject), they attacked Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iraq and support Israel which is a Zionist nation. They said they either wanted to break down the dictatorship, break down the terrorist attacks or improve the living standards within the country. That leads to other questiions such as “Who are U.S. to break down control of the high powers in a country which has been used for generations?” “Why did the terrorist attacks on U.S. start in first place? What was U.S. guilty of in the first place?” and most importantly “How is killing millions of civillians helping in the country’s living standards?”.

Now for the second question. It is simple. The people support the war because the government used such propaganda as 9/11, the government needed to go to war either because of the oil or because their sponsors were weapon industries, and if U.S. would go to war, the weapon industries would benefit from this largely. Simple answer yet very true.

This was my first blog, please leave comments or contact me on l0letrtainment@hotmail.com if you want to debate about it, add extra information or ask any questions.

Next blog topic will be “Napoleonic War vs. World War II – which one should be more remembered?”