“I always needed to have my weight under control,” says Čestmír Strakatý. The moderator, who conducts interviews exclusively in a black shirt with folded cuffs, from which he peeks out an abstract tattoo, looks confident at work and pays for the sex symbol for many people. Therefore, few would have thought that he was the one fighting his body. Čestmír is the main character in the first part of Lukáš Houdek Hrana’s podcast series, which is about male uncertainties connected with the points of the imagia.
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“I didn’t like my body most of my life. And in fact, it is so now. There are probably people who can look at themselves in the mirror positively or without emotion. I can’t do it without being at least partially disgusted, “admits Čestmír. In the first part of the Hrana series, documentary filmmaker Lukáš Houdek reveals what is behind Čestmír’s dissatisfaction. And how the uncertainties associated with his own body affect his relationship with his wife Hana or social and professional life.
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“He doesn’t like it at all, but I think he’s absolutely amazing, beautiful and divine. He has a nice figure, but he doesn’t see it there and he solves it terribly, “Hana reflects on her husband’s feelings. He adds that she is trying to watch over him. “Otherwise he wouldn’t have eaten many times.” He was ashamed and afraid that the others would not understand him. He sees the participation in the podium Hrana as an opportunity to open a debate through his story, which has been taboo so far.
Psychologist Jan Kulhánek talks about the experience with clients in whom appearance uncertainties developed into eating disorders. He points out that crossing the edge of healthy sports and weight monitoring can be very easy and at the same time difficult to identify. “Everyone, even if they are initially healthy, if they follow a radical diet for a long time, they will start to have a disorder of the perception of the body scheme. It will feel thicker than it really is, “he explains.
Listen to what affected Čestmír’s relationship to his own body. How are uncertainties about appearance reflected in relationships, work, and social life? In general, what is the distorted perception of one’s own body in men and how to recognize when exercise and diet are already a problem? Listen to the first part of the podcast series Hrana.
Hrana is a five-part documentary podcast series by Lukáš Houdek. It conveys the stories of men who, due to their desire for a dream character, are fighting with their own bodies. Together with experts, he thinks about what shapes today’s ideas about the ideal body. And why obsessive exercise, weight monitoring, and eating disorders are taboo topics in men. Listen on wave.cz/hrana, in the application mujRozhlas and in others podcast applications.
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Credits:
Author: Lukáš Houdek
Radio Wave playwright: Veronika Ruppert
Creative group playwright Document: Daniel Kupšovský
Sound Master:
Ladislav Reich
Audio collaboration:
Radek Veselý
Music:
Václav Rouček
Visual: Adam Křena
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