The Thread for Actual Bodybuilders

Bigger Stronger Leaner Competitive Bodybuilding
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I don’t post often since I’m mainly a lurker but I like what this is so I’ll join in . . .

Quick facts:
6’ 1", low 240s, just turned 22, 3.5 years training, started at 155, been here during 2.5 of those years, recently measured in at 18" arms.

I definitely live the life of a bodybuilder although I’m not even thinking of competing yet (for many years at least). It’s become too much of a habit of food prep, gym time, and proper sleep to remember how I spent my free time before I found the weights.

One thing definitely on my side is time. I’m taking all advantage of the fact that I am in college where all I have to worry about are 5 classes and a 20 hour/week internship. This allows me to structure my classes when I want them so I can go to the gym when my performance is at its best. I’ll certainly make it work when I graduate next Spring but it’s too easy to make progress in college NOT to do all I can to make the most of it.

I never talk about bodybuilding to anyone and only a couple friends know that I’m following bodybuilding. The only time I talk about weightlifting in general is when a friend or someone I work with asks a question with a keen interest in the answer. Otherwise, there’s no reason to waste my time and theirs so I’ll downplay what I know and crack a few jokes.

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I’m only 19 but I most definently have the mindset. Im currently 6’2’’ 220 give or take 2 pounds. I’ve been working out for about two years. I started at 170. I was sticks for arms/legs no abs whatsever and an embarassing chest. My goal later on is get in the 240-250 range.

So I haven’t put down the weights since. My arms sit at 18" comfortably, I haven’t measured my legs lately or other measurments, ill get back to you all later on that. My chest needs more work. I had a minor shoulder injury that gave me a major setback in the chest/shoulder department. When I get that back up along with my shoulders, and a few more years of lifting under my belt, I would like to compete.

I may not go pro, hell I may not even place. I don’t care. I love the sport so much. I would be proud to tell my kids someday, “Yeah I competed.”

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[quote]Drizzt wrote:
I may not go pro, hell I may not even place. I don’t care. I love the sport so much. I would be proud to tell my kids someday, “Yeah I competed.”
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Same here… I am currently 24, and I think I may compete sometime in the future (when I’m around 28-30) for the experience and the memory. It also provides you with a set date to really bust your ass for. Would be cool having a picture to show the kids one day, your right.

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[quote]Lonnie123 wrote:
Drizzt wrote:
I may not go pro, hell I may not even place. I don’t care. I love the sport so much. I would be proud to tell my kids someday, “Yeah I competed.”

Same here… I am currently 24, and I think I may compete sometime in the future (when I’m around 28-30) for the experience and the memory. It also provides you with a set date to really bust your ass for. Would be cool having a picture to show the kids one day, your right.[/quote]

that bug bites hard.

You guys will say that now but once you step onstage and the people cheer for you and your backstage with all the cameras and photographers, big time magazines, and pros.

You get hooked.

If you do more than a half ass job in your first show… I’d bet money you guys will compete more than once ;D lol

It’s VERY addicting. lol and fun…

DG

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[quote]Dirty Gerdy wrote:
Lonnie123 wrote:
Drizzt wrote:
I may not go pro, hell I may not even place. I don’t care. I love the sport so much. I would be proud to tell my kids someday, “Yeah I competed.”

Same here… I am currently 24, and I think I may compete sometime in the future (when I’m around 28-30) for the experience and the memory. It also provides you with a set date to really bust your ass for. Would be cool having a picture to show the kids one day, your right.

that bug bites hard.

You guys will say that now but once you step onstage and the people cheer for you and your backstage with all the cameras and photographers, big time magazines, and pros.

You get hooked.

If you do more than a half ass job in your first show… I’d bet money you guys will compete more than once ;D lol

It’s VERY addicting. lol and fun…

DG[/quote]

Ha, Is that kind of like “I will only do one cycle…”

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I haven’t been on stage for awhile but the picture in my avatar is me back in 2002 or 2003. I spent a couple of years competing. If memory serves me I think i was only weighing in at a measly 164 lbs the day of show and offseason was only maybe 190 at best. I am 30+ lbs heavier and leaner offseason and one of these years I will probably take another run at it. I should have kept at it but you know…

The first show I competed in I won the Overall and from there i was hooked. I know that my big competion that day has since gone pro as a light heavyweight. Makes me think what if. Oh well kids and wife kind of got in the way of competing … plus the dieting blows. A well we will see mabye someday. I still live and breath bodybuilding. I have the size just not the time to be so moody while dieting, it can be hard on people around you…

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[quote]Swolle wrote:
I haven’t been on stage for awhile but the picture in my avatar is me back in 2002 or 2003. I spent a couple of years competing. If memory serves me I think i was only weighing in at a measly 164 lbs the day of show and offseason was only maybe 190 at best. I am 30+ lbs heavier and leaner offseason and one of these years I will probably take another run at it. I should have kept at it but you know…

The first show I competed in I won the Overall and from there i was hooked. I know that my big competion that day has since gone pro as a light heavyweight. Makes me think what if. Oh well kids and wife kind of got in the way of competing … plus the dieting blows. A well we will see mabye someday. I still live and breath bodybuilding. I have the size just not the time to be so moody while dieting, it can be hard on people around you… [/quote]

My girlfriend at the time of the PN Challlenge I did last year mentioned that I was being a dick. I dont remember what I chalked it up to (had never heard of contest prep making your mean), but now I think it may have been the food/diet/cardio/lifting I was doing.

That would be an interesting round table, how to not be a salty bastard while dieting.

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[quote]Lonnie123 wrote:
Swolle wrote:
I haven’t been on stage for awhile but the picture in my avatar is me back in 2002 or 2003. I spent a couple of years competing. If memory serves me I think i was only weighing in at a measly 164 lbs the day of show and offseason was only maybe 190 at best. I am 30+ lbs heavier and leaner offseason and one of these years I will probably take another run at it. I should have kept at it but you know…

The first show I competed in I won the Overall and from there i was hooked. I know that my big competion that day has since gone pro as a light heavyweight. Makes me think what if. Oh well kids and wife kind of got in the way of competing … plus the dieting blows. A well we will see mabye someday. I still live and breath bodybuilding. I have the size just not the time to be so moody while dieting, it can be hard on people around you…

My girlfriend at the time of the PN Challlenge I did last year mentioned that I was being a dick. I dont remember what I chalked it up to (had never heard of contest prep making your mean), but now I think it may have been the food/diet/cardio/lifting I was doing.

That would be an interesting round table, how to not be a salty bastard while dieting.[/quote]

lol I’m on edge getting nearer to the show.

I don’t think it’s just the diet, but a combo of wanting to perform well on stage, making sure all your ducks are in a row so to speak as well as continuing with the diet.

DG

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I am positive the diet itself. Lack of carbs is what makes me bitter. I know even outside of dieting if I go to long without eating I get pretty cranky.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
Scotacus wrote:
According to the OP the definition of the term bodybuilding needs no elaboration.

According to the consensus of this thread, if one eats 6 meals a day, works out regularly, and reads alot about bodybuilding then they are a bodybuilder.

We have a forum of non-competing bodybuilders.

Is that like having a hopped up street machine you work on religiously, that could likely outrun anything around, yet never sees the competitive side of a track or circuit, so what the hell, I guess Im a non-competitive race car driver…

If someone has 20" arms and a 53" chest and they happen to be in great physical shape, I am going to call them a bodybuilder.

All of the work to be a bodybuilder is done in the gym, not on stage. You are one on and off the stage all day long.

Simply eating 6 times a day does not qualify you as one if you don’t have the muscle mass at all.[/quote]

I remember a time where you were pushing 205…many many winters ago. And I’m assuming that just like then, you’ve always been a wee bit heavier/more muscular than I have been. SO i’d assume that you’ve had a point where you pushed 300lbs and I don’t mean fat bastard 300lbs either. IF that’s not bodybuilding then I fail to see what bodybuilding is.

As we’ve seen discussed many damn times before if simply stepping on stage makes one a bodybuilder than it’s really not a lifestyle committment or that hard to be one to begin with. We’ve all seen pics of people in local level shows that look like they have yet to actually pick up weights but yet they have competed and now unfairly get called bodybuilders even tho they haven’t done anything to build themselves since that point…

Here’s my view point on this. X, may not ever step on stage, but his advice through the years have helped many many people improve their muscularity tremendously and I for one am one of those that benefitted from his advice. Even if he can be a pain in the ass once in a while…lol

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[quote]Tiznut wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Scotacus wrote:
According to the OP the definition of the term bodybuilding needs no elaboration.

According to the consensus of this thread, if one eats 6 meals a day, works out regularly, and reads alot about bodybuilding then they are a bodybuilder.

We have a forum of non-competing bodybuilders.

Is that like having a hopped up street machine you work on religiously, that could likely outrun anything around, yet never sees the competitive side of a track or circuit, so what the hell, I guess Im a non-competitive race car driver…

If someone has 20" arms and a 53" chest and they happen to be in great physical shape, I am going to call them a bodybuilder.

All of the work to be a bodybuilder is done in the gym, not on stage. You are one on and off the stage all day long.

Simply eating 6 times a day does not qualify you as one if you don’t have the muscle mass at all.

I remember a time where you were pushing 205…many many winters ago. And I’m assuming that just like then, you’ve always been a wee bit heavier/more muscular than I have been. SO i’d assume that you’ve had a point where you pushed 300lbs and I don’t mean fat bastard 300lbs either. IF that’s not bodybuilding then I fail to see what bodybuilding is.

As we’ve seen discussed many damn times before if simply stepping on stage makes one a bodybuilder than it’s really not a lifestyle committment or that hard to be one to begin with. We’ve all seen pics of people in local level shows that look like they have yet to actually pick up weights but yet they have competed and now unfairly get called bodybuilders even tho they haven’t done anything to build themselves since that point…

Here’s my view point on this. X, may not ever step on stage, but his advice through the years have helped many many people improve their muscularity tremendously and I for one am one of those that benefitted from his advice. Even if he can be a pain in the ass once in a while…lol[/quote]

Wait a second, THAT “Tiznut”?

LOL!!!

You may be the only person here who has known me since I was skinny.

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yes THAT Tiznut…lol

All i know about Skinny X is that you were 5 lbs heavier than me then, and when I went on a growth spurt you went on yours too…HATE YOU!! lol

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[quote]Tiznut wrote:
yes THAT Tiznut…lol

All i know about Skinny X is that you were 5 lbs heavier than me then, and when I went on a growth spurt you went on yours too…HATE YOU!! lol[/quote]

If you are on this site now, it should be interesting. Don’t hold back. Let me know if you come through H-Town.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

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x, do you know who the guy is on the far left, i think he goes to my gym but im not sure of his name

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[quote]crod266 wrote:
Professor X wrote:

x, do you know who the guy is on the far left, i think he goes to my gym but im not sure of his name[/quote]

You got me there. I recognize about 4 of them but not him. Victor Martinez is up there too.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

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that was way to funny lol

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[quote]Dirty Gerdy wrote:
post a picture of yourself. I don’t give a fuck about your ‘knowledge’ I think you are just here to debate. Your probably some punk bitch who just argues online. You can see my pics, you can see I bodybuild…so why come to MY thread and argue about it?!?

This thread was designed to see how many true bodybuilders we have on this site.

If you are one, or by your own damn standards consider yourself one, then stick with the topic of the thread.

I know what a fucking bodybuilder is. I’m not here to debate about it.

whoever said they want really small defined muscles can suck a dick. Get your own thread if you want to spark debate you immature prick!

Fuck this forum. This is the bullshit I’m talking about!
DG[/quote]

Damn man, someone on a contest diet? You start and awful lot of angry or complaining threads…But you also start a lot of good ones.

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[quote]CrewPierce wrote:
Dirty Gerdy wrote:
post a picture of yourself. I don’t give a fuck about your ‘knowledge’ I think you are just here to debate. Your probably some punk bitch who just argues online. You can see my pics, you can see I bodybuild…so why come to MY thread and argue about it?!?

This thread was designed to see how many true bodybuilders we have on this site.

If you are one, or by your own damn standards consider yourself one, then stick with the topic of the thread.

I know what a fucking bodybuilder is. I’m not here to debate about it.

whoever said they want really small defined muscles can suck a dick. Get your own thread if you want to spark debate you immature prick!

Fuck this forum. This is the bullshit I’m talking about!
DG

Damn man, someone on a contest diet? You start and awful lot of angry or complaining threads…But you also start a lot of good ones.[/quote]

lol yea it was a diet + people turning every bodybuilding thread into a debate on what a bodybuilder was.

I tried playing nice for a few posts but then just got annoyed. lol

If people didn’t bitch about high gas prices…would they go down? lol

Then I try and be helpful when I can, maybe learn a thing or two along the way as well.

DG