Psychology of Bodybuilding and Body Dysmorphia

I remember a couple of years ago, I was in the Netherlands teaching, and one of the guys in class wanted to train with us. And we said, that's cool. And he goes, I've known him for a long time as well. He's older. He's got kids. He's stressed out. He doesn't sleep. He's got a business. so he's going to have low testosterone most likely. And I said, well, let's start out with like 160 milligrams of Tren, or not Tren, test, not Tren. Let's start out with like 160, just standard TRT dose, and just see what that does. The guy put on like six kilos in a month. And then he goes, what else do we need? I go, wait, do you need any? Do you need any? Why? Like you put on six kilos. Why don't we ride with that for a while, and then maybe we'll go up to like 250, 300 and see what that does. So he calls me and he goes, listen, my friend's a biochemist. He says, this is not enough. I need so much more than this. You just put on six fucking kilos of fat-free mass in a month. Like, how is that not working for you? So then he decided he wanted to take a bunch more, and I went, that's fine, I'll just fire you. I'm done. I just stopped training. Yeah, 100%. It's just like body dysmorphia. Whatever they get, it's just never enough. Right. And do you reckon that's an issue that needs to be addressed more so than just jumping on more gear? 100%. Yeah. It's crazy. It's actually crazy. I think part of it, too, is it's something I teach, something I taught over the weekend. When we talk about hypertrophy and men, men usually go into bodybuilding for one of two reasons reasons to get pussy or they've been bullied. Like that's usually it. And, you know, they call it putting on your gorilla suit. So a lot of the guys that want to get really big, they were had sand kicked in their face for a long time. And they said, well, the bigger I get, people won't fuck with me, which is not true. The bigger you get, the more small guys, especially drunk guys, want to fuck with you. but I think it's just a lot of it goes with the psychology. Like they didn't get enough hugs or they didn't get enough affirmations when they were growing up. Some trauma, childhood trauma. Yeah. So it's, it's the same thing, you know, with women who want to, want to look better, you know, they, they do a bunch of stuff, get their lips done, get boobs, get their butts done or whatever. It's all a, it's all a lack of self-confidence issue, trying to make yourself feel better. And then it's, it's never enough. Yeah.