Fudancces

The history of life

Around you, friends you have spoken, you have laid on dozens of magazines, you have devoured books, spent hours and hours on newsgroups "wanted child" ... You may know that the female body is made for this, that since the humanity are more than 60 million children are born ... you still a little apprehensive about this great unknown, this upheaval. Regardless of what others felt, this is a personal adventure, and your experience will be unique. Your pregnancy will not resemble that of your best friend or your mother. Your pregnancy, it will be your story, nine months alone, nine months in a rare life.

Become adult

Having a child is in any case an important step in your story: you go from a woman than mother. For the child psychiatrist Marcel Rufo, "is the real transition to adulthood." We accept no longer be your own child, to transmit its values to a new being. And that changes a lot of things around us: the relationship with her own parents of course, but more general perspective on the world. It also becomes adult because it acquires new responsibilities. And what responsibility! A new being who will discover the world around them and who should be given the keys to progress in life.

Understand her desire

There are many reasons for wanting to be pregnant to feel woman, exposing her femininity, "prove" that her body works ... Marcel Rufo, "if the desire of pregnancy and the desire for a child is sometimes confused, the desire for a child has a different meaning. This is the story of a couple, a family that is being built. Its a story of love, the realization of her relationship with her spouse. The desire for a child represents the hope to extend in time and show everyone that each member of the couple is finally out of the Children being able to match her parents. " While it is important to know what motivates this desire for a child, she must also know sometimes listen to her body, as you listen to her feelings. Simply. Unless there are insurmountable obstacles, do not hesitate if you feel that this is a good time!

Be prepared

Should not be expected, you have to prepare for this great adventure. Consultations and examinations, good eating habits and lifestyle ... Once you have the plan to make a baby, put all the chances on your side, so that cloud does squander this unique adventure. To give everything to your future child ... and the following!

Happily, the Hollywood body has come full circle. Today’s Hollywood body for men and women are muscular but lean. It stresses tone over bulk, a six-pack over big pecs and biceps. It’s Brad Pitt. It’s Matt Damon in The Bourne Identity and its sequels. It’s Daniel Craig as James Bond. And, for maybe the first time in a couple of generations, it’s an achievable look. Yes, we’re trying to look like humans again. Lifting weights will improve your metabolism so you’ll burn more calories throughout the day. If you’re a woman, it will give you sexy looking tone and definition. If you’re a man, it will add some size to that tone and definition. It will help you to avoid osteoporosis or will lessen the effects of the disease if you already have it. Now, it’s time to lift the darn things.

In the mid-eighties, that started to change. In the 1985 movie Perfect, John Travolta played a reporter who ends up investigating the seamy underbelly of the red-hot Los Angeles fitness scene. The movie was to the aerobics world what Saturday Night Fever had been to the disco world eight years earlier. The message, which was not lost on men, was that aerobics were on fire and that not only would you end up with the perfect body, but it would greatly increase your odds of meeting women with perfect bodies. In 1985,Travolta was the anti-Arnold. Where Arnold and his cantaloupelike pecs represented one end of the extreme fitness spectrum, the frail Travolta represented the other. People were doing their cardio, but they were doing too much of it. As a result, they weren’t just burning fat; they were burning muscle. And they weren’t looking
all that healthy.

In 1968, Dr. Kenneth Cooper wrote his groundbreaking book Aerobics. Cooper coined the word aerobics. In his book, Cooper stressed the importance of exercises like walking, running, biking, and swimming. His case was that anything that improved your overall cardiovascular system—your heart and your lungs—would lead to a greater quality of life and a longer life expectancy. Did he, in his wildest dreams, imagine that this belief would someday lead to a magazine cover showing a scrawny Travolta? Probably not.

For men, the Hollywood body began with the actor Johnny Weissmuller when he played Tarzan. He was big, strong, and muscular, and in 1932 every man wanted to look like that. Heck, why not? There was Weissmuller, swinging around the jungle with a scantily clad Maureen O’Sullivan on his arm. Not a bad Depression-era fantasy. The celebrity look has always been about fantasy. Muscularity represented sexuality. The good-looking, strong, and muscular guys always got the girl. Think of Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity or Marlon Brando in any of his early roles. The thing about the Hollywood body of the thirties, the forties, and the early fifties was that it was an achievable look. If you ate right and did your push-ups and pull-ups, you could look like that.

In the late fifties, things started to change. A bodybuilder named Steve Reeves hit the screen as Hercules. Women swooned, and men realized they would have to do more than simple calisthenics to keep up. The fantasy was becoming more and more of just that: a fantasy.
The fantasy of having the Hollywood body seemed dashed for good in 1970, when a young Austrian bodybuilder made his screen debut in, ironically, another Hercules movie, Hercules in New York. Arnold Schwarzenegger, already a multiple Mr. Universe winner, was unlike anyone the screen had ever seen before. For the next thirty years, that look—giant pecs, massive arms, and so on—was the Hollywood body. Fueled by visions of looking like Arnold or like Sylvester Stallone when he got all buff in Rocky III, guys hit the gym. And they hit it hard. What happened? Everyone wanted to be huge, but no one really knew how. Men would work on only the muscles they could see in the mirror: all chest and arm exercises and no back or leg work. Sure, they ended up with decent-sized pecs, biceps, and triceps, but because of the unbalanced way they worked their bodies, they were a complete mess otherwise. Their shoulders curled in and they walked all hunched over, with spindly legs doing their best to support oddly oversized upper bodies. A real sexy image, huh? Hasta la vista, baby! But for the moviegoer, it wasn’t long before big wasn’t big enough. In 2003, director Ang Lee brought Marvel Comics’ Incredible Hulk to the silver screen for the first time. Did Lee use Arnold in the lead role? Did he call up Lou Ferrigno, who played the green giant on TV? Did he phone bodybuilder Ronnie Coleman, who might just be the biggest and most muscular man on the planet? No. He decided to use an entirely computer-generated Hulk. The movie strongman, the icon who had been the Hollywood body for the last thirty years, was no longer the result of pumping iron; it was the result of crunching numbers.