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The cult of the body or the tireless “quest for muscle” of generations Y and Z

2023-02-19T17:24:46.451Z


SURVEY – More and more young people and teenagers are betting everything on their muscles… and showing it off on social networks, real prescribers. Excesses that sometimes lead to addiction: bigorexia.


Pink tank top, blonde ponytail, earphones in her ears, Pauline descends, dripping, from the treadmill on which she has spent the last twenty-five minutes.

Her session at KeepCool Monceau, a gym in the 8th arrondissement of the capital, has only just begun: after a quick break, she continues with half an hour of high-intensity interval training (“HIIT”) then half a hour of strength training for the arms, abdominals and glutes.

An hour and a half of indoor sport, supported by internet videos, four times a week, plus tennis on weekends: this is the 25-year-old commercial's unchanging programme.

“I clear my head, I spend myself, it gives me energy.

Sport

is vital: I need it!

And it's also time for me"

, explains the Parisian, bottle of water in hand.

Like Pauline, more and more French people are taking a liking to the regular practice of sport.

And young people are particularly affected.

In 2018, according to…

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Source: lefigaro

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