The real battle is hard and the difference between bodybuilding and a sport is that in the sport, the competition matches the training. If a slim 5’11 shows up at a track competition looking like the 5’11 high jump olympic gold medalist Stefan Holm, he will not be handed any credit unti he actually succeeds the jump. Somebody could be just born very explosive and athletic (or muscular) and not have to train at all (unlikely but not impossible) but they would still have to make the jump or whatever a real sport requires.
What? People all over the planet are born with different genetic advantages. Some guys are just faster than everyone else. They still had to fucking train to be in the Olympics but they were still born with advantages over their peers. Why do you hold this AGAINST bodybuilders but accept it in all other sports?
What bodybuilder do you know of who reached a HIGH LEVEL PRO COMPETITION without training for years for it? Even Ronnie Coleman didn’t just walk into a stage for the first time without years of training behind him.
You are speaking out of your ass…much like most of you who try to degrade what you don’t measure up to.
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My point is that a bodybuilder just has to walk in while giving off a certain appearance, in the competition. That’s not true of sports. An athlete may not reach their personal peak in a given competition but they still put 100% effort into the competition.
If sports was like bodybuilding, then Usain Bolt would do all the running in training and just casually jog over the track in a competition.
I don’t hold it against bodybuilding that someone could theoretically just be born with incredible genetics for muscularity and did not have to train. I’m just using it to demonstrate that the bodybuilding competition is unlike sports competition because bodybuilders’ flexing is not necessarily different from the flexing of a 150 pound 6’6 man. But an athlete’s performance is objectively superior or inferior to the performance of the average person or his fellow competitors.
[quote]Alffi wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Alffi wrote:
The real battle is hard and the difference between bodybuilding and a sport is that in the sport, the competition matches the training. If a slim 5’11 shows up at a track competition looking like the 5’11 high jump olympic gold medalist Stefan Holm, he will not be handed any credit unti he actually succeeds the jump. Somebody could be just born very explosive and athletic (or muscular) and not have to train at all (unlikely but not impossible) but they would still have to make the jump or whatever a real sport requires.
What? People all over the planet are born with different genetic advantages. Some guys are just faster than everyone else. They still had to fucking train to be in the Olympics but they were still born with advantages over their peers. Why do you hold this AGAINST bodybuilders but accept it in all other sports?
What bodybuilder do you know of who reached a HIGH LEVEL PRO COMPETITION without training for years for it? Even Ronnie Coleman didn’t just walk into a stage for the first time without years of training behind him.
You are speaking out of your ass…much like most of you who try to degrade what you don’t measure up to.
My point is that a bodybuilder just has to walk in while giving off a certain appearance, in the competition. That’s not true of sports. An athlete may not reach their personal peak in a given competition but they still put 100% effort into the competition.
If sports was like bodybuilding, then Usain Bolt would do all the running in training and just casually jog over the track in a competition.
I don’t hold it against bodybuilding that someone could theoretically just be born with incredible genetics for muscularity and did not have to train. I’m just using it to demonstrate that the bodybuilding competition is unlike sports competition because bodybuilders’ flexing is not necessarily different from the flexing of a 150 pound 6’6 man. But an athlete’s performance is objectively superior or inferior to the performance of the average person or his fellow competitors. [/quote]
That is exactly what Usain Bolt does. He trains for a year then runs for 9.58 seconds. Alexander Ovechkin trains 6 times a week to go to a game and have 24 51 second long shifts. A-Rod does batting practice to go to the plate 4 times. Gymnasts train for 4 years to give a 45 second long routine.
What the HELL is your point?
The reason you don’t understand the difference between yourself and Ronnie Coleman flexing is because you don’t know how to flex.