explain why Bodybuilding isn't gay

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Aedus said:
But at the same time you still develop your muscles, any exercise does this.
Since Bodybuilding is defined as:

You're bodybuilding yourself, very lightly, even though it's not to the degree of other people, therefore you must be gay. Unless in fact you meant the bodybuilding shows are gay, and not the sweeping statement that all aspects of bodybuilding is gay.

Good day sir.
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Bodybuilding is a form of body modification involving intensive muscle hypertrophy; an individual who engages in this activity is referred to as a bodybuilder. In competitive bodybuilding, bodybuilders display their physiques to a panel of judges, who assign points based on their appearance. The muscles are revealed through a process known as the "cutting phase" - a combination of fat loss, oils, and tanning (or tanning lotions) which combined with lighting make the definition of the muscle group more distinct.
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Even olympic lifters are not training for "intensive muscle hypertrophy". They are training their nerves pathways more than their muscles. Nobody except bodybuilders trains for "intensive muscle hypertrophy", because it serves no functional purpose in any application other than these fruity physique contests.
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
I bet there's a fair few throughout the world doing exactly that. :p
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This guy? Really?

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kwerk said:
Swimming, running, even weight lifting is not bodybuilding. Bodybuilding is building up your muscles as big as possible and showing them off to other men.

Are olympic lifters bodybuilders? Nope. Does anyone care what they look like? No. Are there swaths of gay gays ogling them at the olympics? No.
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Whats your fixation with the guy on guy thing?

You do realise women like to look at guys with muscles too right?

You seem very very closed minded. Regardless of whether guys look at muscley guys. So what? Does that mean the musley guy is gonna bum the guy watching him, No. Unless he is infact gay, which you seem to have a problem with?

I Love your opening line, I aint homophobic but LOLS GAYS
 
I suppose some people aren't differentiating between pro-bodybuilding and building muscle for a functional purpose such as sport (or too look a little better when nekkid in the bedroom :D)

I'd agree with you that pro-bodybuilding competitions are a little odd and they take it too far in my opinion. They do crazy things like purposefully dehydrate themselves the day before so that their muscles show more. They are the male equivalent of beauty pagents which I find reprehensible. People often take their hobbies to extremes; they get obsessed and I think it takes the fun out of it.

I lift weights regularly and there was a time when I went a little too far, to the point where I was unable to find jeans that fit! I play a lot of tennis and noticed my game suffered, I was not as quick on the turn and I got winded sooner (since I was carrying extra weight). I backed off the weights a bit, dropped about 11kg and things were much better :)
 
kwerk said:
This guy? Really?

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Umm so what about Pudinoski, 5 times world strongest man, very very lean build, low bodyfat, etc...bearing in mind the man actually possess the strength to rip your arms out of their sockets (tho by the sounds of your trianing my 3yr old niece could do that)...you gonna call him a fag?..bearing in mind he regularly competed topless..

OR maybe your just a bi-cep boi that been training for years and made no gains what so ever?
 
kwerk said:
Even olympic lifters are not training for "intensive muscle hypertrophy". They are training their nerves pathways more than their muscles. Nobody except bodybuilders trains for "intensive muscle hypertrophy", because it serves no functional purpose in any application other than these fruity physique contests.
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Bodybuilding comes along with gaining strength, they are intertwined. You don't need to train for hypertrophy to gain a massive amount of muscle. Power lifters are big and have a lot of fat, but if you took away that fat they would have a similar physique to a bodybuilder. This for example is a power lifter who got injured and cut off his fat:
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I can't remember his name, but I guarantee if I showed you a pic of him before saying anything, you'd have also assumed he was a bodybuilder, not a power lifter.
 
That guy you have posted, hes a power lifter not a body builder.. different thing entirely and a different training regime...I like to do bodybuilding although not to the extreme, i take supplements and do a 3-day split including all the best lifts like DL,squats and bench.... i think the OP just wishes he had a body as good as a body builder lol :p
 
There's no denying that there's something a bit homoerotic about proper, full-on bodybuilding competitions. That's not to say I can't appreciate the effort and dedication required to compete at that level, but it is pretty weird.

But most people who "bodybuild" are nowhere near that level of dedication or indeed physical size.

On the other hand, powerlifting is about as manly as it gets.
 
Yeah power lifters are Alpha males, bodybuilders i think just have some vanity issues but are still pretty manly tbh, some of the girls they have are incredible
 
I wouldnt write off BB'er in terms of how much weight they can shift..watching Coleman Dead 700+ lbs for a couple of reps is no small feat.
 
Tefal said:
why are the pwoerlifter blokes always fat though? any reason?
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To gain strength you eat lots and train lots.
Bodybuilders get fat too, but what they do is something called cutting, cutting gets rid of fat on their body whilst maintaining muscle. The thing is, when bodybuilders cut, they lose a lot of their strength a long with the fat, the whole point of power lifting is to just lift as much as humanly possible, so power lifters just maintain their bulk to allow them to lift heavy, if they cut off their fat and bodyweight they will lose a remarkable amount of strength, which is detrimental to everything they've trained for.
 
Tefal said:
why are the pwoerlifter blokes always fat though? any reason?
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PL's mostly actually work on technique to shift the weight, of course they train for pure explosive output, but where the muscle sits under the fat, BB'ers risk losing a lot of muscle if they get their dieting wrong in competition season, many BB'er will put on a good few stones of fat in the off season to hibernate and help the muscles grow.

in some Pl'ing snatchs and lifts, have body weight and correct technique will let them shift more weight, especially in pulling events.

Of course this can be hugly detrimental if got wrong..Glenn Ross being the best example where he jsut carried to much fat for a lot of strongman events.
 
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a lot of power lifters, just eat as much as they can (within reason) go gain all the nutrients to be able to enhance their strength.. also body builders spend time on low intensive cardio to keep their fat as low as possible in cutting... power lifters prefer to spend this time with weights
 
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