You know you’re a bodybuilder when…
-You wake up too early and the first thought that goes through your mind is “This is going to throw off my eating schedule”
-You eat 6 to 9 meals a day
-You know the gram count of everything you eat.
-You have ever missed an event because it would have interfered with your workout schedule.
[quote]Akuma01 wrote:
You know you’re a bodybuilder when…
-You wake up too early and the first thought that goes through your mind is “This is going to throw off my eating schedule”
[/quote]
Usually for me it’s getting up too late, puts me in a really bad mood >=(
When family and friends ask you to get your cholesterol checked because you ate more than four eggs in a sitting.
you’ve competed in a bodybuilding show.
[quote]Kerley wrote:
you’ve competed in a bodybuilding show. [/quote]
This. I’d say there are very few people that I would call bodybuilders here, most are simply interested in the pursuit of bodybuilding.
Personally, I think someone like MightStu is a bodybuilder, because almost every facet of his life is dedicated toward that pursuit, and it culminates in competitive channels. Although I enjoy going to the gym, and dedicate a decent amount of time towards lifting and the knowledge that surrounds it, I would not consider myself a bodybuilder, as ultimately I have never channeled the majority of my pursuits nor fully dedicated myself towards any of those competitive channels.
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
[quote]Kerley wrote:
you’ve competed in a bodybuilding show. [/quote]
This. I’d say there are very few people that I would call bodybuilders here.[/quote]
I cant say thats true though. I know a lot of people that have done shows, and at 5’10 200lbs 9% bf I look better than most of them. I’ve actually seen some pretty shitty physiques at shows.
You justify claiming a 450 bench for reps, and back it up with a videotape of you doing 405, to a spot several inches off your chest, with a spotter lifting on every rep, because you’re big.
-You’re Stu.
you own Zubaz in every known color and for all occasions.
You post nude photos of yourself on T-Nation with a smiley face covering your ass!
[quote]SickAbs wrote:
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
[quote]Kerley wrote:
you’ve competed in a bodybuilding show. [/quote]
This. I’d say there are very few people that I would call bodybuilders here.[/quote]
I cant say thats true though. I know a lot of people that have done shows, and at 5’10 200lbs 9% bf I look better than most of them. I’ve actually seen some pretty shitty physiques at shows.[/quote]
when i said that i meant Stu, dark iron and one or two others, if you compete in a show and you look like you never lifted a weight your still not a bodybuilder.
I don’t know I think Show just = competitive body builder. There’s a few others around here that don’t compete but are certainly worthy of the title body builder.
Stu = Competitive Bodybuilder
Hungry4More = Bodybuilder too though even though I don’t think he’s ever competed.
hungry for more is a powerlifter…
[quote]Otep wrote:
You justify claiming a 450 bench for reps, and back it up with a videotape of you doing 405, to a spot several inches off your chest, with a spotter lifting on every rep, because you’re big.
[/quote]
lol
…you want to be fashionable and modify your own clothes. And you wear a ghey hat.
…all you ever say is hamburger.
It’s funny, b/c I have a hard time referring to myself as an actual bodybuilder. I guess it just conjures up different images for people… To me, Yates was a bodybuilder, Arnold, Mentzer, even natties like Cordova, WHitacre etc.
Granted, I realize that most people now view me as such, and with the collection or trophies (8 of 'em at last count!), a 2 part interview with an online training mag, a page in Natural Muscle & Fitness Magazine, and all of the contest photos/videos, obviously I can admit that I’ve accomplished a great deal, but I guess I’m just a bit hesitant to sum myself up as such.
The only rationale that I can honestly think of, is that maybe it’s been something to work towards for so long, that actually achieving a certain level of success (looking like a super-hero, which was the goal when I started training at 20) is almost anti-climactic. After my first show, friends would refer to me as a ‘champion bodybuilder’, and I guess with several 1st place wins, it was somewhat accurate,… now, being the ‘pro’ in the gym,…well, I tend to joke about it more than anything.
S
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
It’s funny, b/c I have a hard time referring to myself as an actual bodybuilder. I guess it just conjures up different images for people… To me, Yates was a bodybuilder, Arnold, Mentzer, even natties like Cordova, WHitacre etc.
Granted, I realize that most people now view me as such, and with the collection or trophies (8 of 'em at last count!), a 2 part interview with an online training mag, a page in Natural Muscle & Fitness Magazine, and all of the contest photos/videos, obviously I can admit that I’ve accomplished a great deal, but I guess I’m just a bit hesitant to sum myself up as such.
The only rationale that I can honestly think of, is that maybe it’s been something to work towards for so long, that actually achieving a certain level of success (looking like a super-hero, which was the goal when I started training at 20) is almost anti-climactic. After my first show, friends would refer to me as a ‘champion bodybuilder’, and I guess with several 1st place wins, it was somewhat accurate,… now, being the ‘pro’ in the gym,…well, I tend to joke about it more than anything.
S[/quote]
You’ve had 1 too many slices of humble pie.
People beg to work out with you and they quit after session 2 and never talk to you again.
…when you stop caring what everyone else labels you as and take comfort in the fact that your progress has reached a level most won’t ever get to.
While I can understand some minor debate about what a “bodybuilder” is, the truth is, anyone spending upwards of 5 days a week in the gym for over a decade without fail, anyone who takes the time to plan meals out days in advanced AND happens to have built themselves up to proportions that would have many label them as “huge” a “freak” or “monster” to some degree, then congrats, you are a fucking bodybuilder…and all of those who say otherwise can screw themselves.
I know I personally take this a bit more seriously than “hobby”. It takes up way too much of my life at this point for that even if I don’t ever compete.
If the first thing people notice about you is muscles even when fully clothed, why would anyone take the time to complain about whether they call themselves a “bodybuilder”?