Pumping Iron — Daddy Issues & Flexing Fatherhood

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The funky, porno-like theme song for the movie composed by Mike Small initially seems at first out of place, but Some of its lyrics are prescient — especially the line, “everybody wants to be bigger than dad”.

It’s a line that relates the eternal struggle for every young man to move out of the father’s shadow and become their own man. Bodybuilding is in a sense, a form of self creation that helps drive this process.