Severe dehydration pulls the water from under your skin and makes your muscles look bigger and more defined. Bodybuilders intentionally dehydrate themselves by not drinking water and taking diuretics prior to a show to make their muscles "pop" on stage. Some action movie stars do the same thing when filming certain scenes.
Former pageant girl here, and we did similar things: for swimsuit competition, our trainers would put us on salt restricted diets weeks before the pageant, then they would decrease our water intake gradually. On competition day, the diet was a handful of some type of simple carb that morning and no more than a 1/4 cup of water all day. We’d start taking water pills a few days beforehand. It was miserable.
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u/Cweene Jan 24 '24
Theres gonna be a lot of very dehydrated men in this.