The Physical 100

[+ purplekow]

Has anyone else caught this beefcake fest on Netflix?  It is a Korean game show to find the best physique.  100 well trained athletes, professional and amateur are brought together to compete.  Each of them has had a plaster model of their physique made and they are gathered in a large hall.  Many of these contestants are well known athletes in Korea.  They include MMA fighters, wrestlers, track and field stars, bodybuilders, cross fitters, and other with an athletic background working as policemen, firemen, construction workers, models, fitness influencers and then there is the occasional k pop star or TV actor.  They fairly quickly enumerate the contestants in an endurance contest.  Season one it is hanging from a bar, in season two it was 22 minutes on a manual treadmill.  Only the running keeps the belt turning and you have three round or shirtless men running on treadmills.  There are the cursory number of female contestants who are there mostly for show, though a female MMA did kick the butt of a US FBI agent in one of the take away games.  

Anyway, most of the men are really fit, and almost always shirtless.  They are wrestling, grappling, doing endurance contests and generally sweating and gleaming through all of it.

The subtitles are interesting.  Mostly men and women admiring each others physiques and commenting on how good the others look.  

If you lose, you are out and then have to take a sledge hammer to your physique replica.

Lots of eye candy and mindless, but the contests do have a way of drawing you into the competition.  

It is very repetitive, in that for example in going from 100 to 50, there are 50 "death match" one on one contests which are more or less the same.  

If you want to get right to the major beefcake skip episode one in which the contestants are introduced, though even in this, they have filmed snippets of many contestants training.  

So muscle lovers especially, get out the popcorn and perhaps the tissues (for wiping the tears when your favorites lose).