Female body builders, just why?

Psycho Sonny · 3 Oct 2011 at 12:48

hurfdurf said:
This is only barely a myth, the amount of steroid use in the UK let alone the USA is through the roof. More people use steroids than smoke cannabis.

lol

i highly doubt that, i take it you have evidence to back that claim up?

Skillmister · 3 Oct 2011 at 12:49

Aedus said:
Lol what a thread, nearly as classy as the "bodybuilders are gay" thread.

You do realise its turned into exactly the same thread right?

Some of these comments are just hilarious.

shoes · 3 Oct 2011 at 12:50

Amp34 said:
Ah ok... And which case I'm not actually on your or kwerks side then. I assumed you were agreeing with steve-h...

hahaha confusing thread is confusing

shoes · 3 Oct 2011 at 12:52

Psycho Sonny said:
lol

i highly doubt that, i take it you have evidence to back that claim up?

That seems ridiculous - I'd be keen to see the source of that too.

Tephnos · 3 Oct 2011 at 12:52

hurfdurf said:
Define athlete, and at what stage the body builder is at.

I thought I made it pretty obvious by using the word 'top' but fine,

Athelete as in any sport that requires a lot of physics endurance for long periods of time (running, ect.). The bodybuilder would be competing against others for the biggest mass, ect. at the top of his game.

Amp34 · 3 Oct 2011 at 12:53

steve-h said:
You see them as gay and I don't.

whos gay now brah?

Well the idea is to grow in proportion to your height. If you're 6,3 and 130lbs you are underweight for your height, if you're 5,5 then you're just fine.

You're skinner than him if you weigh less and are taller. I'm not sure what else there is to that...

of course not. Following on from before, if you had the same ratio of fat/mass to height as the guy in the picture then you'd have a similar build.

The point was as an example, even if I was the same weight I would still be skinnier due to being taller. If kwerk is taller then he would need to put on a lot more weight/mass in muscle to get to the same build. He seemed to have totally missed that in his calculations. Unfortunately you seemed to have missed what I was trying to say the first time which is why we got into this mess.

That is why I'm confused as to why my post was full of rubbish...

steve-h · 3 Oct 2011 at 12:56

Amp34 said:
The point was as an example, even if I was the same weight I would still be skinnier due to being taller.

Well ye... of course

Amp34 said:
If kwerk is taller then he would need to put on a lot more weight/mass in muscle to get to the same build.

Not in ratio though. It's easier for him to be 200lbs than it is for you to be 200lbs, no?

Skillmister · 3 Oct 2011 at 12:59

Amp34 said:
The point was as an example, even if I was the same weight I would still be skinnier due to being taller. If kwerk is taller then he would need to put on a lot more weight/mass in muscle to get to the same build. He seemed to have totally missed that in his calculations. Unfortunately you seemed to have missed what I was trying to say the first time which is why we got into this mess.
That is why I'm confused as to why my post was full of rubbish...

Also the fact his bodyfat is insanely higher and he clearly has less muscle mass to begin with, being the main points.

Aedus · 3 Oct 2011 at 13:01

Skillmister said:
You do realise its turned into exactly the same thread right? Some of these comments are just hilarious.

Of course, but this 1 has slightly more class as it didn't start off with the statment, but gradually it gravitated towards it.

Not MUCH more though.

icecold · 3 Oct 2011 at 13:03

This thread is painful to read

Skillmister · 3 Oct 2011 at 13:03

shoes said:
That seems ridiculous - I'd be keen to see the source of that too.

Psycho Sonny said:
lol

i highly doubt that, i take it you have evidence to back that claim up?

According to the British Crime Survey there are 42,000 regular anabolic steroid users in the UK.

Drugs expert Jim McVeigh said there could be as many as 100,000. "Basically we're looking at numbers being on a par with heroin users," he added.

Consistent with previous findings, cannabis is the type of drug most likely to be used by
adults; 6.6% of 16-59 year olds used cannabis in the last year in 2009/10, compared
with 7.9% in 2008/09

Since cannabis was downgraded the proportion of young people using it has fallen each year from 25.3% in 2003-4 to 20.9% now. Among those aged 16 to 59, the proportion over the same period has fallen from 10.8% to 8.2%.

Cannabis statistics seem really hard to find for 'regular use'

Amp34 · 3 Oct 2011 at 13:03

steve-h said:
Well ye... of course

Not in ratio though. It's easier for him to be 200lbs than it is for you to be 200lbs, no?

I wasn't talking about ratio though. He came in stating 200lb as his weight, not a ratio.

Deadbeat · 3 Oct 2011 at 13:07

Skillmister said:
Cannabis statistics seem really hard to find for 'regular use'

"Basically we're looking at numbers being on a par with heroin users,"

That pretty much says all that needs to be said on the matter - if someone thinks there are more heroin users than cannabis users, they need to get their head screwed on a little bit tighter.

shoes · 3 Oct 2011 at 13:10

Skillmister said:
Cannabis statistics seem really hard to find for 'regular use'

The trouble with these kind of stats too is that no matter how anonymous the research is, there are people who will simply lie and state that are are/are not users of a drug to look cool/clean, regardless of the truth.

I would eat my hat if there are not more cannabis users, in the UK at least, than there are body builders in total, let alone the proportion who use steroids etc.

Amp34 · 3 Oct 2011 at 13:10

Oh and psyco sonnys suggestion that we all want to look like that guy up the page is rubbish too, however it is something someone who spends a lot of time on their body probably thinks...

Personally I think that guy looks ridiculous, and so do a lot of people. Looking trim, lean and fit doesn't mean you need to look like that to most people.

Each to their own though.

Psycho Sonny · 3 Oct 2011 at 13:11

Skillmister said:
Cannabis statistics seem really hard to find for 'regular use'

so basically 100,000 have taken steroids vs 8 million at the minimum who have taken cannabis

i would hazard a guess that 5 million people in scotland alone have taken cannabis, never mind the uk

Psycho Sonny · 3 Oct 2011 at 13:15

Amp34 said:
Oh and psyco sonnys suggestion that we all want to look like that guy up the page is rubbish too, however it is something someone who spends a lot of time on their body probably thinks...

Personally I think that guy looks ridiculous, and so do a lot of people. Looking trim, lean and fit doesn't mean you need to look like that to most people.

i bet if you and your friends saw him in real life you would think differently. all your female friends would be all over him.

you may not think this is true, but on the bodybuilding.com forums their is a bodybuilder who regularly makes women cheat on their husbands, fiancees and boyfriends and records them and uploads for all and sends to their partners and uploads all the evidence of it all. he even made one woman have a three way, she wanted him so badly.

women want a guy who looks like that and men want to look like that, its been drummed into you through media, films, magazines, adverts, etc.

the same way every woman wants to look like nicole scherzinger.

put it this way, why do they use fitness models in adverts? why use a guy with a 6 pack and a lean muscular body to sell CK boxers? why not use kwerk instead?

Wizzfizz · 3 Oct 2011 at 13:19

Psycho Sonny said:
women want a guy who looks like that and men want to look like that, its been drummed into you through media, films, magazines, adverts, etc.

Psycho Sonny said:
the same way every woman wants to look like nicole scherzinger.

Stop talking rubbish.

mmj_uk · 3 Oct 2011 at 13:21

I think most female bodybuilders are suffering a mental illness tbh, they were probably not very 'pretty' to begin with so to get attention from men they resort to bulking up. That's not to say they don't enjoy doing it of course.

I'm not really a big fan of outright mass myself, I think proportion is the most important thing be it men or women and I don't like to see every single muscle, that female physio on page 1 has a great physique.

Somnambulist · 3 Oct 2011 at 13:23

Lol@thread. Also while Zyzz does have a very aesthetically pleasing physique and isn't huge (he is big though), he and his crew all openly admit to having used steroids as part of their body transformations. It's a sport and there are people with specific attraction to that kind of physique, just as some people are attracted to lots of tattoos/piercings, body modding, etc. Stage/competition pics are usually unappealing looking for the general public but it's not representative of how these people look most of the year.