Attitude of the public to bodybuilders

bakes0310 said:
Im gonna ask a really nooby question im training to get my weight up along with a lot of weight training to lift heavy weights to be big and strong.
My question is what catergory does that put me in is it a weightlifter or bodybuilder, whats the difference?.....told you this is a daft question:p
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I would say you were a weightlifter. Bodybuilding is more about image than strength.
 
thedoc46 said:
A body builder is someone who wants to have abnormally sized muscles, he wants people to think omg that man must be so strong look at the size of him.
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You are wrong. There are countless bodybuilding competitions where there's weight categories and the main focus is achieveing a proportion physique within a weight limit. Don't thin that bodybuilding only equals size and that every bodybuilder wants to be a Mr Olympia. The guys on Mr Olympia are far too big for me to ever want to look that, but that doesn't mean I don't respect their work and that they're horrible people.

thedoc46 said:
he HAS to be steroids. Or as you all say' he's not doing it right!!!
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I will agree with you that a profesional bodybuilder has to be on steroids. Heck nobody would even win a regional bb competition without the stuff. But to state that all bodybuilders have to be on steroids is completely inaccurate. There are natural bodybuilding competitions as well.

Heck, look at the "post your pictures thread" at fellows like Freefaller, Benny or really big ones like Morba or Tank (to give some examples of people in here, there are countless others everywhere) they all look far bigger than the average person and you can tell they spend some time in the gym, even though they may not train for the looks. Which means they are doing it right, unlike you I'm affraid.

thedoc46 said:
He's happy to lose some of his agility just to have bigger bulging muscles..
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That is only valid if you were a fit and agile person before starting to work out, I for example never was. So I haven't lost any of my agility because of it, althouh I completely agree that there are lots of people far more agile than me, there was never much I could do about that anyway.
 
How often do you see 'bodybuilders' though? Rarely. At best you might be some pretty big weightlifting types (ala Freefaller) but bodybuilders as such are a different breed. Personally, I have great respect to them. It takes mad dedication to get like that and a lot intelligence to actually know how to achieve what you want.

If your referring to Jersey Shore 'Gorilla Juiceheads' then yes, they are generally douchebags. But still fair play to them for actually doing something, people in this thread who stick to cardio and bum it and don't want to get 'big, fair enough but can't you realise that strength or mass is just another aspect of fitness and wellbeing? Albeit a different one to you. I have no interest whatsoever in running marathons or being a welterweight, I prefer weight training.
 
thedoc46 said:
Here are some images of professional natural bodybuiders.. AS YOU CAN SEE NONE OF THEM ARE VERY BIG and all look normal other than being excessivly cut due to diuretics and over baked tans and so on.. These are people that train all yr long for these contests and not one of them has buldging muscles.

http://www.czechyoungmuscle.com/pag...l-natural-bodybuilding-championship-2009.html
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a lot of body builders take steroids to get to the next level of COMPETITIVENESS, not just to get a bigger ego.
 
thedoc46 said:
So people don't discuss it on OcUK, doesn't mean they don't take them.. Wake up and smell the coffee. Maybe YOU don't but trust me, the majority of bodybuilders DO and the ones that don't, do not actually look anywhere near as big as the ones that do. A natural bodybuilder is as rare as rocking horse poop.
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Why don't YOU wake up and smell the coffee sunshine, you're wrong.
 
thedoc46 said:
Here are some images of professional natural bodybuiders.. AS YOU CAN SEE NONE OF THEM ARE VERY BIG and all look normal other than being excessivly cut due to diuretics and over baked tans and so on.. These are people that train all yr long for these contests and not one of them has buldging muscles.

http://www.czechyoungmuscle.com/pag...l-natural-bodybuilding-championship-2009.html
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Dude you're making yourself look like a silly person now. Those people have got decent mass, and bodybuilding is about shape, definition, symmetry and quality of muscle and striation. NOT about absolute size.

Those guys are the epitome of bodybuilding, lots of lean muscle mass, low bodyfat with huge amount of definition.

I really don't get your point.
 
shifty_uk said:
I bet if they stood next to you, you'd notice the difference ;)
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Personally i think they are sad too.. Just look at them all tanned up with speedo's on, wanting their pics on the net.. Eating nothing but white chicken and rice... oooooh great dedication :rolleyes:.. OK so they don't look like your typical over grown zitty veiny beast, but even so, it's still rather odd to see a man that seriously OVER tanned up in a set of speedos flexing like that..

i'm guessing 90% are gay.
 
thedoc46 said:
yup they are all gay and love themselves too much.. I'm moving onto a different thread too many homo's here.
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You are so ignorant - you really do follow the stereotype of people that have no clue. You're right I know nothing about you, and I'm glad, because I don't have time for people like you and it wouldn't take long to get to know someone as vacuous as yourself.

Please leave this thread.
 
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