Muscular and Athletic Beach Figure for Men

On Sylt, Usedom, Rügen and everywhere where the sea or the lake invites you to swim, so-called playboys stalk through the precinct in the finest restaurants. Today you can also meet their summer spoiled offshoots, the beach lions, stalking through the harsh beach landscape. They do this either alone or if it is still very young specimens, in small but all the more conspicuous groups.

Bodybuilders and playboys on the beach

Depending on the age, muscles require a differentiated and regular exercise, which admittedly costs time, patience and, above all, sweat. From their ancestors, the said playboys, they have retained the smooth gait and the usually stylishly trimmed hairstyle, but otherwise their appearance has undergone a profound transformation. The only thing that remains of the foppish suit is the skimpy swim shorts – if any at all – and instead of a flower in the buttonhole, an idiosyncratic upper body construction is unmistakably on display: Huge pectoral muscles dominate the scene, massive flesh rests on shoulders like solidified egg batter, and biceps muscles grow to sizes that the layman can only marvel at and the expert wonder at. The heights and depths of the peculiar anatomy are played around by the reflections of the summer sun, as if their wearer had just sprung from a nut-oil bath. But when the muscleman or bodybuilder even folds his hands or crosses his arms pensively with his belly tucked in and his chest stretched, then the moment has come when even sporty observers consider themselves in need of development and medical students can still learn something. After all, the bodybuilders now begin to roll and quiver under the oil skin, new elevations rise up where no one expects them, the lateral thoracic wall turns into a herringbone pattern, and the skin seems too tight for the biceps mountain. There the vacationer turns with horror, and many a less well padded person may secretly begin the first strength exercises behind the next dune. Now it could be that one or the other of our readers immediately starts packing her suitcase with the call: “Off to Sylt! Understandably, one finds nevertheless rarely so wonderful sand beach as at our coasts. However, if you have only discovered the special charm of our North Sea and Baltic Sea resorts through these lines, you can confidently unpack your suitcase again. Because musclemen, equipped with such anatomical peculiarities, are rare with us and therefore hard to have.

What are muscles for ?

More common, on the other hand, seems to me, is the type of offspring Tarzan, who by posture, gait and posturing leaves no doubt that masculinity must prove itself by the amount of muscle mass. And who has anything against muscles? At most, only those who don’t have any. Muscles serve the movement and the mobility. If you have enough energy, you can try it on yourself. However, not every kind of movement is of equal importance for the muscles. For example, locomotion in driving a car comes from the combustion of a gasoline-air mixture and has nothing to do with explosive muscular forces. Movement and agility can be united in the muscle with strength, endurance and speed. Unfortunately, these qualities do not come by chance, but have to be acquired purposefully. Depending on the age, they require a differentiated and regular sporting activity, which admittedly costs time, patience and above all sweat. In return, however, they also provide the awareness of always having sufficient reserves of strength for all the stresses and strains of everyday life. This is certainly a nice feeling, but no one will think of being a health nut about it. Now it is also possible to create muscles that are good for nothing other than to be admired. For performances that require endurance and speed, they are just as unsuitable as paper muscles, and their power development, despite their immense volume, is comparatively small.

Muscle development and training

This is because increased performance is always the result of consistent training of all organ systems, not just the muscles. The heart, circulation, respiration, metabolism, nervous system, to name but a few, are equally involved and therefore equally require regular exercise. In fact, under normal working conditions, a person does not have to use more than twenty percent of his total strength, so eighty percent is available to him as reserve strength.One part of it can be exploited without great willpower effort, the other, however, can only be utilized with the use of considerable willpower impulses in the context of appropriate training. The muscleman or bodybuilder, however, cares little about this. To him it depends only on the outer form. Therefore, clever linguistic creators have found the fine word Formport (isometric training) for the method that promises to create an athletic miracle out of the puny chicken breast. This refers to isometric strength training in which the highest possible muscle tension is induced against a resistance. The muscle load is therefore applied without movement. Incidentally, the exercises are not an invention of bodybuilding, but have long been known as part of high-performance athletic training. However, since bodybuilders made tension exercises an end in themselves and thus isolated them from the rest of athletic training, they only ever succeeded in creating an abnormal imitation of an athletic figure that looked comical to normal observers. And yet, the realization that the world consists not only of lines, but also of curves, seems to have changed in some minds the physical ideal image not only of women, but also of men or those who want to become men.