|   Avg. user rating: 438 ratings Madonna: The ToursThere's a moment in Madonna's 1991 documentary "Truth or Dare" when she tries to tell her confused dad just
what her Blond Ambition concert tour is all about. "You take a journey. It's
cathartic," she explains. "You can't get to one place without going to another
place." The same... more can be said of the transformation-loving pop icon's onstage
odyssey. Her early days of writhing around in a "boy toy" belt and poufy wedding
dress led the way to increasingly elaborate stage shows filled with cone bras,
corsets, disco crosses and leotards. But Madonna's vision of how to entertain
the masses hasn't come without sacrifices. Her shows are equal parts musical
performance and endurance test, and she has spent countless hours in the gym
sculpting her body into another instrument, one that's often soaked with sweat
but has rarely left her gasping for breath. The Big M's walnut-crushing biceps,
which first started to bulge way back in 1987, are now as much a part of her
Sticky & Sweet tour as her guitar and fishnets, while her legs, which
ex-husband Guy Ritchie once admiringly described as "Olympic standard," allow
her to keep up with dancers (and boyfriends) more than half her age. Click
through to check out Madonna's artistic journey from pop princess to hard-bodied
legend, and discover why she should be celebrated as the hardest-working woman
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