Non-Bodybuilding Bodybuilding Fans

i think guys chasing around a puck is boring. i like baseball, i just hate the root root fans. i use to follow nba stuff in the 80’s when i was a kid. i could tell you all the stats for byron scott, magic, kareem, big game james, a.c. green…rambis, cooper. i ate that shit up!

someone said it best, w/ bodybuilding you actually participate and live the sport and lifestyle. i may never be Vic or Kai but in chasing after them i’m sure a hell of a lot better than i was a few yrs ago. plus you can keep getting better well into your 40’s and beyond if you’ve been at it for a while. it helps tune the volume down on other bullshit in life as well.

some of those muscle worship dudes chasing the she-men are a bit scary though. to each there own i suppose. if i turkey wattle of a clit is your thing, then dig right in. i love women with muscle, fitness level muscle or natural female bb muscle. that said, some of the women who claim to be natural might have run a cycle or two yrs ago. if a women’s voice sounds a bit off, scratchy or smokey, she’s done something most likely. either that or she’s tucking the candy.

I train to get stronger (all my goals are related to numbers) and yet I totally appreciate body building competitions. I’ve got friends who’ve competed many times over, been to pre-judging, hung out with them, shot videos, etc. Believe it or not, good BBers are incredibly knowledgeable about other kinds of training (conditioning, flexibility, strength training, etc.)

I really admire how someone can put themselves through the competition ringer. It really consumes you - bulking, cutting, posing, tanning, picking out your posing trunks at a sex shop, etc.

It was BBers who first told me if I want to get thick/strong, stick to basic lifts, do stuff like 5x5, 5/3/1, etc.

I followed the sport side of bodybuilding before i started lifting weights and would likely continue to do so if i ever stopped. It’s just a fascination that i can’t explain.

I had really no interest in bodybuilding as a sport until I saw it live about a week and a half ago. The MWR held an amateur show here at Camp Arifjan, and a buddy and I decided to go. Maybe it was just because I recognized most of the competitors from the gym here, but it was actually pretty cool.

I read a lot of M&F and Flex back in the early 90s and couldn’t help but remember a lot of bodybuilders names and such…but it wasn’t something I was actively trying to remember so I felt sort of silly.

It actually took a while before I felt comfortable calling myself a bodybuilder (still a bit odd when someone else uses the term around me even now). I think the term just conjures up a much different image in my own head than what I see in the mirror each day.

Just throwing that out there :slight_smile:

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[quote]CPerfringens wrote:
Most hockey or football fans don’t play hockey seriously, but I have yet to see someone who follows bodybuilding that’s doesn’t at least hit the gym.

Non-bodybuilding bodybuilding fans, does that exist?[/quote]

Hitting the gym and BBing are 2 different things. There are a lot of football fans that like to toss around a football. But tossing a football isn’t really the same thing as playing football either.

non-bodybuilding bodybuilding fans seems kind of gay, but then again i say the same about most other sports fans.

[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:

[quote]CPerfringens wrote:
Most hockey or football fans don’t play hockey seriously, but I have yet to see someone who follows bodybuilding that’s doesn’t at least hit the gym.

Non-bodybuilding bodybuilding fans, does that exist?[/quote]

Hitting the gym and BBing are 2 different things. There are a lot of football fans that like to toss around a football. But tossing a football isn’t really the same thing as playing football either.[/quote]

True, but your comparison does not quite fit. If tossing a football is equal to “hitting the gym” then you are not training, you are working out or just playing around.

A Better comparison for the serious lifter, like most(some) of us here are, would be a guy training his ass off every single day, trying his best to be as good, or even better than the professional football players.

When i think about it that doesn’t really make sense either. BBing is not like any other sport because you have guys who compete, and guys who don’t. Those who compete are actual bodybuilders,but many who don’t compete have a physique better than oh so many that do.

If a pro football player is a competing Bodybuilder, then a dedicated lifter, who aspires to be something great, is the equal of a football player training to be the best player he can be, but is not competing in a official league.

Thats the thing. To truly be a Bodybuilder, you just have to compete. To truly have a great physique, you have to work, grind, struggle, fail, and keep working. Harder. To be a great bodybuilder you have to do both.

I don’t really know what my point is here, I just felt like i had to stand up for us noncompeting minds. Even though I have no aspiration to compete, i truthfully believe that i can be better than many that do.

[quote]Defiance wrote:

Thats the thing. To truly be a Bodybuilder, you just have to compete.

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Not true. It is as if the concept of a “recreational bodybuilder” is non-existent. I have seen some people in gyms who could give some top level NPC competitors a run for their money and they don’t compete. I would not say those people aren’t bodybuilders.

He meant there is a HUGE difference between someone who actually lives this as a lifestyle…and some guy who just trains. I don’t “just train”. My diet and life revolve around the gym largely despite other responsibilities. That means me and “train 2-3 times a week” guy have little in common.