Bodybuilding

I’m going to write about a sport that many people consider unhealthy, ugly and useless: bodybuilding. Many people see this sport only as muscular men lifting weights in a gym, but bodybuilding is much more than that.

As well as in other sports every athlete looks for an objective, for runners and swimmers it is to be the faster, for basketball and soccer players it is to win by collective work, by making good tactics... In weight lifting the thing is to be the strongest, but in bodybuilding the target is to get the best shape and the correct volume of your body.

It is a very tough sport because they have to follow a lot of rules, it involves methodical and very hard trainings and a lot of diets. Bodybuilders have to control every single food they eat. They have two kinds of diets: volume diet and definition diet. In the volume diet they have to eat a lot because they want to get more muscle volume. In this phase their training is much tougher because they have more energy. In the definition diet they eat much less because they want to lose weight and they want to reduce they body fat percentage, all of this because they want to get shredded to show off their muscles. Because of their eating less, their trainings must be moderated to avoid injuries.

Their trainings are based on exercising different muscles along the days of the week. In bodybuilding the best body is not the biggest, in this sport the most valued body is the one that is eesthetic and proportioned.

Bodybuilding is not only about lifting weight, I think that this sport is about sculpting a body by hard training and by following meticulous diets.

Coachella

I´m going to talk about Coachella and what it represents. It is an arts and music festival that is yearly held  at the Colorado Desert, in Indio, California. Actually, it is a very big festival that is celebrated over two consecutive weekends every April. Many people attend it, including celebrities like pop stars, movie stars, famous bands and sometimes even the famous angels of Victoria´s Secret.

The event has many types of music, like electronic, rock, indie, hip-hop and pop music. But, apart from the music, it also has visual art elements, like giant sculptures or figures all over the valley of Coachella and most of them are interactive.

There are several stages across the grounds that this festival has, and they host constant live music by many popular singers who perform on them. Coachella is one of the biggest and most popular music festival in the USA and all over the world. This festival is also well known for the tradition of people wearing hippie clothes from the 70´s.

The first time the festival was celebrated was in October of 1999, and it was founded by Paul Tollett and Rick Van Santen; now it is organized by Goldenvoice. In 2000 they didn´t celebrate the festival, and finally in 2001 they celebrated it in April, and from then, it has been celebrated during those days.

Half a million people usually attend this festival, and you have to be quick if you want to get a ticket to go to it, because it usually takes only 1 day for all the tickets from both weekends to be sold out. Also, you´ll have to break your piggy bank, because it is expensive. But, is it worth it? Well, many people say it is, because it is very well decorated, all the staff and the people working there are super friendly and it is a great opportunity to meet really interesting people. Besides, there are many kinds of music that you can enjoy and some of the most famous music artists perform there. And last but not least, according to many people, it is one of the best experiences you can have to make irreplaceable memories.

Prejudice

We spend our life judging other people based on our ideas on how they look, what they did in the past, what they eat, how they speak, where they are from, or even what other people think about them, but in fact without having much idea about them. We usually think that these prejudices disappear when we know someone in a better way but although we may not notice it, the image that we have of someone after knowing him is still strongly influenced by things he cannot choose or that are not directly related to him. 

According to the dictionary a prejudice is a “preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience”. They affect our society a lot and the way in which we see people. For example when we see someone who wears glasses, some people tend to think that that person is more intelligent than he wasn’t wearing them, and although it is an old stereotype, people frequently use glasses to have more chances in job interviews.

The origin of prejudices is stereotypes and they are caused because of generalization. Stereotypes can be defined as fixed general ideas established by a society towards certain types of people or certain characteristics in them. They are often used and strengthened by films, series or stories in which their use is very frequent. Sometimes they are used in a supposedly funny way or as a method to make the narratives of a story easier to follow, but the problem with them is that in many cases they can be offensive and lead to prejudices and discrimination, which is the worst consequence of them.

Maybe the clearer example of this is racism, which is the discrimination and contempt to people with physical or cultural characteristics that are different from your own. This discrimination is caused by anyone who only accepts people who are “like him” considering himself better than people from other racial groups.

Although nowadays we are more open minded and prejudices don’t influence us as much as in the past, they are still very present in people and society. In our everyday life many people suffer discrimination as a result of them. As Einstein said:  “What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice”.

People have usually more prejudices and are less open minded when they have less experience with people different from them, because they have false and general ideas as a consequence of stereotypes and the lack of a real contact with the ones that they tend to judge. This shows that when you open your mind you realize that in fact prejudices are most of the times false and that it’s not fair to judge anyone without really knowing him.

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