Bodybuilding er den rendyrkede narcissisme. Mens løberen kæmper mod tiden, og vægtløfteren kæmper med vægtene, har bodybuilderen kun sit spejl. Træningsprogrammmer, diæter og timer og atter timer i et træningslokale er kun de ydre sider af en ekstrem disciplin og evig kamp for idealkroppen. En idealkrop som for de fleste mennesker synes absurd, men som ikke desto mindre har en fascinerende kraft. Ikke mindst fordi de fleste mennesker i den vestlige verden selv kender til jagten på den perfekte krop.

Bodybuilding is the pure narcissism. While the runner struggles against time and the weightlifter struggles with the weights, the bodybuilder only has his mirror. Exercise programs, diets and hours and hours in a training room are only the outside of an extreme discipline and eternal struggle for the ideal body. An ideal body that, to most people, seems absurd, but nonetheless has a fascinating power. Not least because most people in the western world even know about the hunt for the perfect body.