Madonna’s Biceps Explained!
The UK’s version of the National Enquirer, The Daily Mail, spoke with body composition specialist Martin MacDonald who works at Loughborough University and asked him to breakdown Madonna’s crazy arms/biceps/muscles/veins. And he did. Here is what he found by looking at the latest photo of Madge, the one that we are all talking about:
Madonna’s muscles are not particularly oversized compared with, say, an Olympic athlete, but what is unusual is how toned and well-defined they are. I work a lot with body builders and they actually look very similar to this – like very, very lean athletes.
When people talk about toning muscles, what they mean is reducing the body’s fat level – which is what Madonna has done.
If she wanted to perform athletically, there would be a problem, as she has slight malnourishment issues. But body builders just have to have muscles that show, and a body builder is exactly what Madonna is.
Madonna armsRegarding her body shape, she’s probably done quite heavy weights in the past, and after you build up the muscle it’s hard to lose it. Your body wants to keep the muscle, as it ‘knows’ it has been used before.
Even if she’s using lower weights now, she’s still using her muscles enough to warrant her body keeping them. Her new regime of one hour of cardio work will reduce her body fat level, which is why she’s so defined and you can see her muscles and veins.
Even if she is using only her own body weight during exercising (such as doing push ups), it is still a form of resistance training. It won’t build her muscles to the optimum, but it will keep them as they are.
Her veins are the same as her muscles. They are not really oversized, but they look much bigger because she’s so skinny. Whether veins are prominent can often be genetic, but Madonna obviously uses her arms a lot, as they look especially lean.
She has a well-developed cardio-vascular system, which includes not only her heart and lungs but her veins and arteries, too.
Surprisingly, her chest doesn’t look gaunt. Sometimes, on people with low body fat, you can see the bones. If she’s eating a low-sugar, low-carb, no-oil macrobiotic diet, she is keeping her general body fat level very low.
In reality, not many people could look like this even if they wanted to, as most people can’t afford to spend two hours a day exercising or to employ a personal trainer. Depending how you view it, she’s either committed or obsessed.
Um, I would say OBSESSED! Fit is good, sinewy and “hard” is not!
[DM]
There goes my lunch! No, wait…maybe I should make sure I DO eat lunch just so I don’t end up looking like that!
Here’s an anatomy lesson one won’t forget. How can she even think this looks great? She looks skeletal and unhealthy!
Well, Madonna might have been in bodybuilding and body weights through all her years since she obtained such kind of bionic muscle toning more particularly her biceps including her veins.
She’ll become another bad diet, foolish wheel chair bound cripple in a few years like Liz Taylor., without all the illegal dope, over-boozing and freakish near-death medical emergancies., but mostly a living example of what happens to a rich, over-indulged slave-laborer.
This story is one of hundreds like it that have swept China in recent days in an unfolding labor abuse scandal that involves the kidnapping in central China of hundreds of children, and perhaps more, some reportedly as young as 8, who have been forced to work under brutal conditions making bricks- scantily clothed, unpaid and often fed little more than water and steamed buns – in the brick kilns of Shanxi Province. There have also been reports of adults being forced to work under similar circumstances.
Well, Madonna might have been in bodybuilding and body weights through all her years since she obtained such kind of bionic muscle toning more particularly her biceps and a protruding veins.
well the way i look at this whole thing!!,..she’s gonna do what she want’s to do no matter what we have to say about her muscle’s or even what the press has to say as well, period!,….she does what she want’s to do!!……but there is just one more thing here that i do have to say about her though!,….she’s 50!, and is “still” in good, good! shape people!?,…….her video’s!, her show’s!,…she is still going out there and doing her thang!!, and I have to say that I “really” do admire for this truely!!!!!………….
Women should stop trying to look like men.
i’d still do her..
i don’t really know what Madonna’s motivation is for looking the way she does, but her body looks overworked than anything else. i hope she’s healthy at least!
wow! This is a million times better than my anatomy charts! Seriously! Sometimes its hard to see what muscle is located where..and this is just perfect! ha