One big word that we are going to learn today is "OBSESSION".
It is good to learn that teenagers are becoming fitness conscious.
Male teenagers want to have muscular, ripped bodies.
Female teenagers want washboard stomach and cellulite free thighs.
It will be great if their motivation to have a great body comes from their awareness on the importance of exercise and bodybuilding to improve their health and life.
However, due to obsession, teen bodybuilding comes with various adverse side effects.
1.
I want big muscles! Teenage boys want big muscles to avoid being bullied in school.
Teenage is also a period when boys want to impress the opposite sex with any means possible.
Big muscles are definitely the "it" thing that will make girls heads turn and make our teenage boys more popular.
At least that's what motivated our boys to want big muscles.
The problem is, no matter how teenage boys try, they will never achieve the perfectly sculpted body unless they have the proper workout and nutritional plan.
Genetics play a very important role too.
Male models that graze the cover of magazines are almost perfect specimens of the male species.
They have low body fat percentage and working out make them appear ripped and defined.
The average male does not have the privilege so sometimes they turn to steroids.
In a way, this makes bodybuilding seem like a negative influence on teenagers; they make teenage boys abuse drugs to get big muscles.
2.
I look fat in these jeans! While teenage boys are obsessed about getting big muscles, teenage girls are obsessed with being thin.
Girls want to be as thin as Kate Moss or Heidi Klum.
They are inspired by stick like figures that the world acknowledges as models.
This sort of motivation often causes our teenage girls to resort to extreme measures, and not eat the healthy way as the bodybuilding and fitness experts suggested.
These extreme measures may result in eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia.
Anorexics avoid eating while bulimics eat a lot before forcing everything that they have eaten out of their system.
Both disorders may cause kidney problems and other organ failures.
In more extreme cases, anorexia and bulimia cause deaths of teenage girls.
If these girls are taught to eat the proper way, and how to maintain a healthy diet, they need not to worry about being thin.
Bodybuilding and fitness experts believe in a healthy lifestyle.
Once again, obsession gives bodybuilding and fitness a bad name.