Things that are banned: The 'moon pose' in official bodybuilding

Things that are banned: The 'moon pose' in official bodybuilding

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the day, day day, day, day.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Do.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Do do Do Do?

Speaker 1 (00:14):
It's band week at fact of the day. And you'll
remember when we were in Queenstown on Monday, I got
the whole week, whole weeks with the bands lined up,
didn't I.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
This is banned, not like music bands that.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Have been banned around the world and countries and different areas.
And then last night I just saw this and I
was like, one's got to go. Okay, So unfortunately, you're
not going to hear about the pop stars that are
banned from Malaysia anyone that has ever scaler in the week,
I may have switched out one of the other ones, okay,
but today's the fact that they hear A band week

(00:47):
is about a band.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Bodybuilding pose Okay, bodybuilding.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
You'll be familiar the golden age of bodybuilding, they say
as the seventies and eighties when drugs were I think
they were testing too much for steroids and they were like, sure,
take as many as you want and I have a
heart attack.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
That's cool. That's cool. Yeah, that's called do what you
got to do. It shrinks? Yeah, does it doesn't it?
I think it does? Does it shrink?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Both bo that's the and the bee or just I
thought it just shrunk everything.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
I shrinks the whole unit. I don't know, and it
gives you does that? I think so muscly and stuff
that it doesn't matter show well, the band pose is
the moon pose?

Speaker 1 (01:28):
To show? Listening to Laneway asked before that's the band
pose the moon poles?

Speaker 4 (01:37):
How would you describe that?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Like someone's bending over and touching their toes and you're
looking at the behind.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, so the quads? Is that what's on the back
one of the other muscles here that can see why
that's a pose because it was very muscular. Well, that's
what the moon post involves, beinging forward to show off
the leg muscles.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
And it also showed that only the bodybuilders that had
also been working on their flexibility.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Could do it.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yet too muscly and hadn't been concentrating on flexibility, the
muscles would work against them being able to bend over
and touch their toes, highlighting the hamstring and the glut's Yeah,
big musty legs. So why is it banned? Well, it
was very very popular in the seventies and eighties. Eight
time Mister Olympia champion Ronnie Coleman used it all the time,

(02:21):
but it was a signature move of Tom Platts in
the seventies and eighties. However, back in the day, it
was suspected that judges indulged in shall we say, hookups
okay with the contestants, and they believe this pose of
bending over and them showing them their muscular rare end. Right,

(02:45):
it's called the moon pos because if they didn't have
the bodybuilding jockeys on.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
You'd see the moon, you'd see them, you'd see the moon.
You see the whole moon.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
You see the whole moon. Yeah, and the hole on
the moon, right, And it was what too much for
the judges and people just.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Started to see this pose as vulgar and in an
attempt to sexually entice.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
The judges to vote for them.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
It was a little bit of a god you could
have later if you give me the yeah, And they
said it was more about flexibility than muscle muscle symmetry, right,
So then it kind of went around and it got
banned from competition and competitors was that actually happening though, Yeah, okay,
right from all I mean, there's no one coming forward
and saying because it was the seventies and eighties. Yeah,

(03:25):
it was still around under the mat, you know, and
talk about that sort of thing in public. But they
believed that they were so desperate to win that they
would wow and the judges were there to admire greased up,
well tanned men's bodies.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
So I'm not saying rule game, but I'm just saying.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, yeah, right, you know, hell of the gig it
would be. It would be, yeah, confronting hell of that game.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
So they banned the moon post from any male's bodybuilding.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
And is it still banned to this day. An official
minder got in competitions that's still banned. Amazing yep. Separation.
And then if you went underground, it's still a thing.
I don't reckon.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
You have to go that far underground, probably not just
into a public toilet if you know the place together,
and that could probably still be a grinder.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, not even underground.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, don't hide the moon pose anymore. Be proud of
the moon pose. So today's spect to the day is
there is a band pose and bodybuilding. It's called the
moon piles, where you bend over and show the judges
your delicious glutes and hemis.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Fact of the day.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
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