I think they are using the same measuring stick they use to measure their Dicks.
3" equals 9".
just like 13" equals 19".
There is no longer a place in society for big achievers, those that achieve or strive to achieve their goals.
Not unless they make massive amounts of money out of it along the way.
The only achievement society really measures us by is money.
Alright this doesn’t hold entirely true, Mother Theresa springs quickly to mind, but on the whole I think it’s about right. If you aint making huge amounts of money for all your efforts, there’s something wrong with you.
its bigorexia now?
so we’re not total narcissists, compensating for a small dick or small stature, or closet homosexuals anymore?
Now your scaring me, your starting to look reaaaaaaalll crazy.
#1) Your seeing things.
I never said any standards, I asked at what point would you think a guy is crazy? Not clinically crazy, but crazy enough to say to yourself he’s crazy in the gym. Now I will say my opinion before you assume it again. If a person has what looks to be the average muscular weight in his class after dropping below 5% bf he’s definitely ready to compete. He is crazy if not one person doesn’t think he can compete for the number 1 spot within 3 months.
#2)Schizo,
First it’s one thing[quote] "I told another lifter last week that I would like to compete but I want to bring my legs up more. " [/quote] then it’s another [quote] I don’t lift weights to compete.[/quote]If you want to nitpik at semantics MIGHT not be polar opposites, but one statement is in antarctica and the other is somewhere close to the north pole.
Are you really 2 different people?
[quote]hypnotoad wrote:
its bigorexia now?
so we’re not total narcissists, compensating for a small dick or small stature, or closet homosexuals anymore?
[/quote]
I think we are still all of that. Everyone who has bigger muscles now has a cornucopia of mental illnesses and social variances to choose from. It simply can NOT be that you want to be better in several aspects of your life…because that makes regular people cry.
So anything any given person could be dedicated to is a metal disorder now?
[quote]Airtruth wrote:
Now your scaring me, your starting to look reaaaaaaalll crazy.
#1) Your seeing things.
I never said any standards, I asked at what point would you think a guy is crazy? Not clinically crazy, but crazy enough to say to yourself he’s crazy in the gym. Now I will say my opinion before you assume it again. If a person has what looks to be the average muscular weight in his class after dropping below 5% bf he’s definitely ready to compete. He is crazy if not one person doesn’t think he can compete for the number 1 spot within 3 months.
#2)Schizo,
First it’s one thing "I told another lifter last week that I would like to compete but I want to bring my legs up more. " then it’s another I don’t lift weights to compete.If you want to nitpik at semantics MIGHT not be polar opposites, but one statement is in antarctica and the other is somewhere close to the north pole.
Are you really 2 different people?[/quote]
So I now have to clarify that I want to get in the shape to compete but have no desire to actually get oiled up on stage? I have only written JUST THAT on this board for about 8 years now…but that’s not enough time to understand what my goals are?
People like you, the ones who need someone to break out the magic markers and water colors to understand a basic point are the crazy ones.
whats the worst is i KNOW is saw “bigorexia” listed and talked about in mens health or maybe even muscle and finess about 2 years ago… then you flip the page and there is the article on how to get ‘arms like arnie’ in 2 weeks… w o w.
It seems to me that bobybuilding has always been pretty underground and only recently with faces like Arnold did it start to find some acceptance among the general public. Even still though the idea of bodybuilding for the sake of visual impact seems very extreme to most people, unfortunately this leads to the easy acceptance of a lot of negative misinformation about those taking on the goals of this sport.
After finding this site though, and really beginning to grasp some of the concepts of body transformation through nutrition and proper lifting, I would like to say that the basic concepts promot health, hard work and promote lasting positive changes, a far cry from some sort of eating disorder.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Loves Ben&Jerry’s-orexia?[/quote]
I will have you know that is some of the best tasting stuff ever made 
lololol MY BAD, I guess I do need magic markers then if “I want to compete” really means “I want to be in shape to compete, but I really don’t want to get oiled up to compete”
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
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Now if he was holding hands with a skinny girl seeing herself as fat, it would complete the cycle and bring balance to the universe.
[quote]Airtruth wrote:
lololol MY BAD, I guess I do need magic markers then if “I want to compete” really means “I want to be in shape to compete, but I really don’t want to get oiled up to compete”
[/quote]
I was writing a dialogue between me and someone else. I am not going to walk up to every person I know in the gym and say, “I would like to get in the shape to compete but may or may not like to compete and don’t really want to get oiled up but might do it in the future if I feel I have accomplished enough as far as shape and size” in a fucking conversation. I am going to say, “I would like to compete” so we can move the fuck on in the conversation since competing was not what we were talking about.
Somehow, this needed a long fucking drawn out explanation because people like you LOVE to nitpick.
Yes, there is something wrong with you.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Airtruth wrote:
lololol MY BAD, I guess I do need magic markers then if “I want to compete” really means “I want to be in shape to compete, but I really don’t want to get oiled up to compete”
I was writing a dialogue between me and someone else. I am not going to walk up to every person I know in the gym and say, “I would like to get in the shape to compete but may or may not like to compete and don’t really want to get oiled up but might do it in the future if I feel I have accomplished enough as far as shape and size” in a fucking conversation. I am going to say, “I would like to compete” so we can move the fuck on in the conversation since competing was not what we were talking about.
Somehow, this needed a long fucking drawn out explanation because people like you LOVE to nitpick.
Yes, there is something wrong with you.[/quote]
But how is the poster to know you were paraphrasing in your conversation? I took what you wrote the same way he did, that you want to compete some day when you feel you are ready.
I wasn’t going to nitpick because I really don’t care, but I did take it the same way.
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Airtruth wrote:
lololol MY BAD, I guess I do need magic markers then if “I want to compete” really means “I want to be in shape to compete, but I really don’t want to get oiled up to compete”
I was writing a dialogue between me and someone else. I am not going to walk up to every person I know in the gym and say, “I would like to get in the shape to compete but may or may not like to compete and don’t really want to get oiled up but might do it in the future if I feel I have accomplished enough as far as shape and size” in a fucking conversation. I am going to say, “I would like to compete” so we can move the fuck on in the conversation since competing was not what we were talking about.
Somehow, this needed a long fucking drawn out explanation because people like you LOVE to nitpick.
Yes, there is something wrong with you.
But how is the poster to know you were paraphrasing in your conversation? I took what you wrote the same way he did, that you want to compete some day when you feel you are ready.
I wasn’t going to nitpick because I really don’t care, but I did take it the same way.[/quote]
Dude, I MIGHT compete. It is not a priority to me AT ALL, but that doesn’t erase the fact that some small part of me wants to see how I would do. This shouldn’t need a fucking explanation. Further, I shouldn’t have to explain why I would want to avoid this much discussion of my reason in a casual conversation when the goal was to see what they thought of my progress.
Why has this thread turned into some focus on whether I want to jump into competition or not?
Prof X: I may like to compete in the future but I want to achieve my goal as far as leg size goes.
Renton: But dude (like I’d say that!) you are fucking huge already - you’d have to be crazy not to compete.
Who the fuck would I be to think that? Sure I may think it and I’d be welcome to my opinion but if the Prof hasn’t reached the goal he has set then he is not ready. It’s his choice not mine.
It doesn’t mean he’s a fucked up individual just because he doesn’t subscribe to somebody elses point of view.
I think that’s the whole thing with this so called bigorexia shit.
I have my own goals and WHEN I reach them I will re-asses. I don’t need anybody else to tell me when the time is right.
You should aspire to look like david becham.
If you really insist in getting bigger, strive for daniel craig.
If you get even bigger (by mistake) then you must either play football (american), rugby or enrol as an office linebacker.
Any bigger and you’re taking steroids and are probably looking to be a pro bodybuilder.
You likely have a small penis, backne, masturbate to your own picture and leave orange shadows everywhere.
Either way, whats wrong with weighing 150lbs? If you need to get bigger then something must be wrong with you … right?
I masturbate to my own picture. I’m sexy.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Why has this thread turned into some focus on whether I want to jump into competition or not?[/quote]
perhaps they are anxious to see you in a speedo 
i wonder though, why there isnt the same stigma attached to other endeavors. a friend of mine was a good guitarist. when he wrote something new, or thought he had improved, he would ask people to listen and ask what they thought. no one thought he was strange, either, for listening to a tape of what he had just played, to hear how it soundeed. yet someone (me, in my younger days) asking or looking in a mirror to see progress in their muscles is looked down on, in some way.
what affliction did jimmy hendrix have, the way he played his guitar night and day?
what afflicted einstein, to work ceaselessly on his formulas?
its baffling at times.