You know what, i hate country music. I think ill start a routine where i hit up a country bar and listen to the fagtasttic music and watch them prance around in a circle and call it a dance for several months just so i can sit in the bar and mock what they’re doing. It’s bulletproof!
Why is it not on TV?
Not enough people like it. As proven by this thread and this site(which is a Bodybuilding site) the people truly interested in Bodybuilding are in the minority.
Now extrapolate that out to the continental united states and i think you have your answer.
Rightly or wrongly, pro darts probably does have more fans.
Id watch it don’t get me wrong. Just being realistic.
You also cant gamble on it. (at least in any of the major internatinoal sites I frequent, betfair etc)
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
A man should look like a man, not a gorilla.
Watching shaved gorillas prance about…well, whatever floats yer boat…[/quote]
What I would give for the forearm and delt development of a silverback…
IGNORANCE
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
A man should look like a man, not a gorilla.
Watching shaved gorillas prance about…well, whatever floats yer boat…[/quote]
ROFL
Man that barb was so obvious !
Your getting slower in your old age HH losing your abilities !
bodybuilding is one of the ONLY sports in which almost all of your success is based on what you do outside of “practice”. NO professional athlete focuses on nutrition like a bodybuilder, none of them, and if they do, they’re the smart ones. They go to practice. Train brutally hard. And go home, relax, get ready for practice the next day. But with bodybuilders, the training doesn’t stop once they get out of the gym, the dieting and preparation is what separates the men from the boys. Olympic weightlifters are considered athletes and fantastic at their sport…of course these guys train brutally hard, but they don’t go through what a top pro bodybuilder goes through.
Bias is such a powerful thing. I didn’t realize that everyone interested in bodybuilding had to show some kind of allegiance that doesn’t allow us to see it for its positives and its negatives. I’m supposed to GTFO of here because I don’t have the proper level bias for bodybuilding?
Obviously bodybuilding is some kind of a sport but it’s hilarious how insecure people get about it being questioned. Deadsion had to resort to trying to prove it’s legitimacy by saying that they monitor their diets more than other athletes. So I guess being a responsible diabetic has some kind of inherent athleticism. And bodybuilder’s put more on the line than other athletes? Maybe, but again your hurting your case by making claims that have nothing to do with sports and athleticism.
Most people who are interested in bodybuilding see it as more of a means to an end. A way to improve their life and the way they look. It’s not my fault that bodybuilding has become a subculture freak show. There are a lot of people who are interested in bodybuilding but bodybuilding doesn’t care about that, apparently it wants to be a freak show. Bodybuilding as shown by such outlets as FLEX and the Olympia make bodybuilding look more like a mental condition than a sport.
The diet doesn’t make them athletes, but the discipline does. Not to mention the fact that they move hundreds of thousands of pounds a week, but you know, you’re choosing your battles, and you can’t win that one.
[quote]RIDEtheLighting wrote:
Lots of capital letters and exclamation points.
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You know, adding !!! to the end of BLAHBLAH doesn’t make your point any less retarded, if anything it has the opposite effect. Oh there’s also the part where you make up more random bullshit than… well there’s not a good comparison to make here because it’s the internet, that part is pretty par for the course =[
[quote]Radcon wrote:
Bias is such a powerful thing. I didn’t realize that everyone interested in bodybuilding had to show some kind of allegiance that doesn’t allow us to see it for its positives and its negatives. I’m supposed to GTFO of here because I don’t have the proper level bias for bodybuilding?
Obviously bodybuilding is some kind of a sport but it’s hilarious how insecure people get about it being questioned. Deadsion had to resort to trying to prove it’s legitimacy by saying that they monitor their diets more than other athletes. So I guess being a responsible diabetic has some kind of inherent athleticism. And bodybuilder’s put more on the line than other athletes? Maybe, but again your hurting your case by making claims that have nothing to do with sports and athleticism.[/quote]
The level of athletecism possessed by the competitors have no effect on deciding what is and what is not a sport. You’re a complete moron to even try to make a joke about dieting requiring athleticism as if ANYONE here has ever claimed that. No one has. The fact that physique athletes monitor their nutrition more closely than athletes in other sports was only mentioned to show a common trend seen across all sports; dedication and effort is required off the field, court, stage as well as on if one wants to succeed.
You’re argument fails because you are trying to determine how atheletic bodybuilders are based on how they look. Some bodybuilders are more athletic than others. My argument would fail the same way if I claimed that you excel at riding dick, simply by looking at your avatar. I mean you probably do, but I have no way of knowing that based only the picture.
Why someone wants to build a huge muscular body for no other purpose than to have a huge muscular body kinda escapes me. I can see if there was a shitload of $$$$ or an NFL contract or something…but this?
Put the same amount of effort into being a doctor, lawyer, businessman, hell even a teacher 
and have a great life.
A huge muscular body + $1 gets you a pack of gum.
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
Radcon wrote:
Bias is such a powerful thing. I didn’t realize that everyone interested in bodybuilding had to show some kind of allegiance that doesn’t allow us to see it for its positives and its negatives. I’m supposed to GTFO of here because I don’t have the proper level bias for bodybuilding?
Obviously bodybuilding is some kind of a sport but it’s hilarious how insecure people get about it being questioned. Deadsion had to resort to trying to prove it’s legitimacy by saying that they monitor their diets more than other athletes. So I guess being a responsible diabetic has some kind of inherent athleticism. And bodybuilder’s put more on the line than other athletes? Maybe, but again your hurting your case by making claims that have nothing to do with sports and athleticism.
The level of athletecism possessed by the competitors have no effect on deciding what is and what is not a sport. You’re a complete moron to even try to make a joke about dieting requiring athleticism as if ANYONE here has ever claimed that. No one has. The fact that physique athletes monitor their nutrition more closely than athletes in other sports was only mentioned to show a common trend seen across all sports; dedication and effort is required off the field, court, stage as well as on if one wants to succeed.
You’re argument fails because you are trying to determine how atheletic bodybuilders are based on how they look. Some bodybuilders are more athletic than others. My argument would fail the same way if I claimed that you excel at riding dick, simply by looking at your avatar. I mean you probably do, but I have no way of knowing that based only the picture.
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LOLOL!!!
Last two sentences were complete ownage hahaha
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Why someone wants to build a huge muscular body for no other purpose than to have a huge muscular body kinda escapes me. I can see if there was a shitload of $$$$ or an NFL contract or something…but this?
Put the same amount of effort into being a doctor, lawyer, businessman, hell even a teacher and have a great life.
A huge muscular body + $1 gets you a pack of gum.[/quote]
Stop posting on this website.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Why someone wants to build a huge muscular body for no other purpose than to have a huge muscular body kinda escapes me. I can see if there was a shitload of $$$$ or an NFL contract or something…but this?
Put the same amount of effort into being a doctor, lawyer, businessman, hell even a teacher and have a great life.
A huge muscular body + $1 gets you a pack of gum.[/quote]
I suppose pride in one’s self could be totally lost to someone like you, but to others, it is something worth striving for. I mean, have we lost all sense of dignity that any sort of goal or distant achievement has to result in some kind of monetary value? I take pride in what i do, there’s a sense of honor in knowing i can do what a huge portion of the world couldnt budge. Greed is not a fuel for every fire.
[quote]Akuma01 wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
Why someone wants to build a huge muscular body for no other purpose than to have a huge muscular body kinda escapes me. I can see if there was a shitload of $$$$ or an NFL contract or something…but this?
Put the same amount of effort into being a doctor, lawyer, businessman, hell even a teacher and have a great life.
A huge muscular body + $1 gets you a pack of gum.
I suppose pride in one’s self could be totally lost to someone like you, but to others, it is something worth striving for. I mean, have we lost all sense of dignity that any sort of goal or distant achievement has to result in some kind of monetary value?
I take pride in what i do, there’s a sense of honor in knowing i can do what a huge portion of the world couldnt budge. Greed is not a fuel for every fire. [/quote]
Also, a real man could still be a doctor, lawyer, or whatever else and STILL be fucking huge. What type of weak fucker would actually choose one or the other?
Very true.
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
You’re argument fails because you are trying to determine how atheletic bodybuilders are based on how they look. Some bodybuilders are more athletic than others. My argument would fail the same way if I claimed that you excel at riding dick, simply by looking at your avatar. I mean you probably do, but I have no way of knowing that based only the picture.
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LOL! Literally LOL. And Sarev0k never laughs.
[quote]Anonymas wrote:
Pretzel Logic wrote:
I remember when ESPN2 and Fox Sports used to show major pro shows and big amatuer shows and natural shows and everything. Before that back in the golden age, they used to show bodybuilding on network television.
Can you imagine the Olympia on NBC for two hours on a Saturday night? Actually I can, I mean they still put beauty pagents on network television and don’t tell me it’s because of the hot chicks and that sex sells. In this enterainment/information overload age hot chicks and sex is everywhere.
Thanks dude, someone finally answered the question 
Edit: for some reason it quoted the wrong post :S[/quote]
No, right post I think, it just got edited. I linked to a competing website. Sorry guys. Sometimes I forget that someone might for some unknown and unfathomable reason go buy stuff from that site and post on their boards and drink in their advertising. They may have a shit ton of members, but they are not close to the level of Testosterone. Watching shit you can’t watch anywhere is the only reason to go to that site.
Bodybuilders are athletes, bodybuilding is a sport. Period. Sports come in different guises. Now debate team, that is not a sport. Despite what my HS English teacher told me, it’s not a sport, not at all, seriously.
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
The level of athletecism possessed by the competitors have no effect on deciding what is and what is not a sport. You’re a complete moron to even try to make a joke about dieting requiring athleticism as if ANYONE here has ever claimed that. No one has.
The fact that physique athletes monitor their nutrition more closely than athletes in other sports was only mentioned to show a common trend seen across all sports; dedication and effort is required off the field, court, stage as well as on if one wants to succeed.
You’re argument fails because you are trying to determine how atheletic bodybuilders are based on how they look. Some bodybuilders are more athletic than others. My argument would fail the same way if I claimed that you excel at riding dick, simply by looking at your avatar. I mean you probably do, but I have no way of knowing that based only the picture.
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Obviously the level of athleticism of the participants has nothing to do with what is or isn’t a sport. Actually someone was making a connection between bodybuilding potentially being at least if not more of a sport due to its extremes in dedication such as dieting. moron.
Dedication and effort has nothing to do with something being a sport. Sure they are a common thread but in no way contribute to the definition.
You may put in a lot of effort and dedication to calling other people gay and making inappropriate slandering sexual references when you can’t compete in a semi intellectual conversation but that doesn’t mean you’re engaging in a sport.
Competitive bodybuilding resembles beauty pageants more than it resembles any other sport. I’m not against calling the Miss USA contest a sport either. I don’t care what we call a sport. Those girls train hard to get in shape they have to have strict diets and engage in many extremes before they get on stage. Then they get judged on some criteria and judges decide who wins.
People need to chill out and not be so defensive. Why do you even care whether people consider bodybuilding a sport or not? Would it change anything? Is it because by considering it a sport people can better justify the excess narcissism involved?
All these arguments for how it takes such extremes of dedication in all aspects and hours of life. That doesn’t speak of sport that speaks of disorder. I think the majority of the population would like to be less narcissistic and many of us can see the ridiculous self consuming properties of competitive bodybuilding and frankly it’s a little sad.