• A place were people go to improve there fitness and strength

•Were sports performers go to improve there sporting skills

•A social gathering of people

•I have been training for 2 years now

•Train at muscle masters gym

•Specialize in strength training rather than cardio training

•My favourite lift is the bench press

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• Very intimidated at first

•Learnt more about heath, fitness and training ideas the more I went

•Idolise the bigger people in the gym

•The more I attended the gym the closer I got towards my ideal self

•Going to the gym gets you instantly stereo typed by the people around you as:

•Aggressive

•Unsociable

•Dumb

•Drug abuser

However some people like this stereo type and use it to there advantage to become more intimidating to others

Here are some examples of the media supporting this stereo type

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• Some gyms have little or no women facilities

• Big muscular physique is now essential to a better lifestyle

• The media create a false image of what a happy couple should look like

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• More and more men and women are pressured every day to change there body image.

• A muscular image is seen as the perfect body which is why so many men aspire to have it.

• This need for the perfect body image is what leads men and women to drugs.

• The media advertise this perfect body image of celebrities as the only body image

Media products like these create a false and misleading image of women and what they should be like

• Men idolise the celebrities so called perfect body image.

•Celebrities are put under the same pressure by the media to have the perfect body image.

How my parents sees me How my girlfriend sees me How my older brother sees me How the media sees me

• This obsession with body image is beginning to control many peoples lives

• The need for the perfect body image is never ending and growing more and more