explain why Bodybuilding isn't gay

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I'll admit I started off with much the same opinion as the OP, but really that's just casual prejudice because I hadn't really thought much about it.

The fitness side of this I'm fine with, where it's just muscle tone - I'd like to look like that myself.

The bodybuilding side where blokes are just 'bulky' I don't like.
I reckon it's because physically they are taking up more of the room, I sort of find it intrusive in the same way I don't want to sit next to a 20 stone person on a bus. The prejudice that they are also a bit dim makes me think I'm unlikely to find them interesting (some people think fat people are dim too)

It's also a subliminal threat, I don't want to be around someone who could probably toss me out of a window. I feel the same way about people with blackbelts in TinkyTonkydo. I know the wouldn't actually do anything, but the fact that they could, does make me feel differently about them, it's a sense in male inequality that somehow I don't feel if someone if cleverer or better looking than me.
My main issue is that it's all a bit vain, it doesn't really seem to be about fitness but about being bigger than the next guy - as such I associate vanity with unmanliness, I'd feel the same way about a bloke with a ring in his ear, it's just unnecessary.

Because of the work I do I'm putting on muscle, on one hand it's nice to be able to do things without tiring, on the other hand I don't want to look like a bodybuilder.
 
Women will claim they put on makeup, do their hair, and wear 'pretty' shoes to impress men, but in reality they are doing it to impress other women because they live in a hierarchical society.

Of course bodybuilding is gay, a bunch of men getting naked and admiring the bodies of other men.

Anybody who has seen any martial arts films ever knows that agility > brute force. Just because your built like a tank with an arm that could crush a mans neck doesnt mean your target will still be there by the time you have swung said arm in a particular direction.
 
Yeah but if you have him upside down in a kind of bear hug, squeezing the life out of him, what's he going to hit you with then, His todger?
 
BunnyKillBot said:
Women will claim they put on makeup, do their hair, and wear 'pretty' shoes to impress men, but in reality they are doing it to impress other women because they live in a hierarchical society.

Of course bodybuilding is gay, a bunch of men getting naked and admiring the bodies of other men.

Anybody who has seen any martial arts films ever knows that agility > brute force. Just because your built like a tank with an arm that could crush a mans neck doesnt mean your target will still be there by the time you have swung said arm in a particular direction.
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Because we know this is absolute FACT from all the movies you have seen.

FACT!.
 
BunnyKillBot said:
Anybody who has seen any martial arts films ever knows that agility > brute force. Just because your built like a tank with an arm that could crush a mans neck doesnt mean your target will still be there by the time you have swung said arm in a particular direction.
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hahaha.

he is right, I mean T1000 did kick the T800's butt in Terminator 2, and he was much more agile. He only won in the end due to environmental factors :D
 
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hahaha.

he is right, I mean T1000 did kick the T800's butt in Terminator 2, and he was much more agile. He only won in the end due to environmental factors :D
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So true. I loled. Hard.

cu3ed said:
Because we know this is absolute FACT from all the movies you have seen.

FACT!.
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Dammit man, all I can do is use the evidence given to me nay? And ALL the evidence is that the fat man never wins, unless he is against another fat man. And i happen to know those sumos can retract their testicles, which is pretty gay.
 
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The heavier opponent in a fight has a significant advantage. I'm not talking about boxing or any 'regulated' fight.

Somebody who regularly powerlifts will have excessive forearm strength so when it comes to grappling they can deliver a world of pain. Being realistic people fight dirty, it doesn't matter how agile you are or if you can back flip or jump clean over a man. Your more likely to get a swift boot to the ******** followed by an uppercut and then get jumped on by 16 stone + mass monster than have a chance to use all your agility and fancy footwork.

Poliquin published an article I believe, I might be mistaken it might not have been him, where he had trained an olympic wrestler, spending a lot of time on his grip using fat bars, static loads etc. His opponent had spent his focus working on strength boasting impressive bench, squat and deadlift figures. The second Poliquins wrestler grappled with him his opponent said it felt like his arms had been placed in vices and circulartion was almost immediatley being cut off.

Grip 4tw.
 
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BennyC said:
The heavier opponent in a fight has a significant advantage. I'm not talking about boxing or any 'regulated' fight.
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Heavier opponents will have an advantage in boxing too tbh... which is why they have weight classes.

Conversely it would probably matter less as you get rid of regulations - go back to the original UFC and you get 12 stone BJJ expert running rings around various 20 stone brick **** houses. (Not that size isn't a useful thing to have)

Anyway this is all a bit irrelevant to bodybuilders who effectively lose strength for the sake of aesthetics. In addition professional fighters do a heck of a lot of cv exercise - something that seems to be much less prominent in bodybuilding.

Building muscles purely for show - I don't get it tbh...
 
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