{"id":37,"date":"2016-12-13T23:16:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T23:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/?p=37"},"modified":"2017-01-07T23:50:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T23:50:06","slug":"this-is-muscle-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/2016\/12\/13\/this-is-muscle-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"The First of Many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a digital world where technology has now changed every aspect of the way we live our modern lives. With social media platforms such as Instagram and YouTube, as well as online magazines and websites, taking over our screens circulating the fitness industry, by posting content exposing the &#8220;correct&#8221; lifestyle and idealistic images of the male body. These body image pressures have been\u00a0exacerbated by the growth in digital media. Our culture of browsing and scrolling through our mobile phones on a daily basis means it is almost impossible\u00a0for the average male to avoid the sea of ripped, muscular men showing off their physiques; what is being defined as &#8220;masculine&#8221;. The fitness industry seems to be selling unrealistic expectations and contributes to the increasing\u00a0pressure of having the &#8220;perfect&#8221; body leading to male issues such as using performance-enhancing drugs, creating unhealthy obsessions and suffering with depression.<\/p>\n<h2>This is Muscle Madness.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/bodybuilding-685087_1280-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"bodybuilding-685087_1280\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/bodybuilding-685087_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/bodybuilding-685087_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/bodybuilding-685087_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/bodybuilding-685087_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a digital world where technology has now changed every aspect of the way we live our modern lives. With social media platforms such as Instagram and YouTube, as well as online magazines and websites, taking over our screens circulating the fitness industry, by posting content exposing the &#8220;correct&#8221; lifestyle and idealistic images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/sachagardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}