explain why Bodybuilding isn't gay

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bitslice said:
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.
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In other words, you feel less of a man when they are in the room.
Doesn't make them gay, makes you a wimp.
 
dowie said:
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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In fighting cardio is king, as Carl Gotch said "conditioning is the greatest hold"
 
sigma said:
Unless the other person knows Jiu Jitsu Benny! :)
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Makes no difference, my mate is a black belt in jitsu but stick him and my 21st house mate together for some sparing and as soon as my house mate can get on top of him theres nothing he can do about it.
 
I'm 64kg at fighting weight, we have a body builder at the gym and I have submitted him on occasion.

It is not fun being underneath someone of that size, and yes it is very very hard work.

If he gets a solid hold on one of my arms, it's his arm ha ha.
 
it depends on your fighting style, look at UFC, sometimes a BJJ black belt will get beaten by a striker/kickboxer and vice versa.

brock lesnar aka a tank got beaten by a wrestler/boxer.

anderson silva has like 4 different black belts, he is experienced in many different forms of martial arts. he is pound for pound the best fighter on the planet. but even he would get beaten by some guys who are much heavier than him.

when it comes to fighting anything can happen. weight can be an advantage or a disadvantage it depends on your opponent. lets say your opponent is 6 inches taller than you and faster, much longer reach but weighs less. all he has to do is stay on the outside and pick you off, keeping you from getting inside. no matter how much strength or weight you have if you cant get inside you cannot win.

therefore the only advantages in fighting is experience and training, anything can happen and it takes experience and training to adapt your gameplan to suit certain fighters.
 
So, the Bodybuilders are soundly defeated and now the Pyjama Ninjas show up, it's the Thread that keeps on giving! :D
 
Morba said:
In other words, you feel less of a man when they are in the room.
Doesn't make them gay, makes you a wimp.
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I never said bodybuilders were gay, just perhaps a little vain.
I was also trying to expand on where I think the OP was actually coming from rather than toss pejoratives around.

Being aware that someone is physically stronger than me doesn't make me a wimp either, I can kill with my keyboard as well as anyone.

It does however create a tension that isn't normally there, I'm not often forced to consider someone's body shape, modern life is usually just about who has the most brains/looks/money, so the physical bulk thing is a bit of a primal throwback really.

I still don't get why blokes go for the big bulky look when the slim toned look is simply far more impressive? I'd rather look like Beckham than Arnie any day.
 
Surly the thought of fighting a gay BB'er is the most intimidating thing in the world.

If he gets on top, you would be made a b***h.
 
There's is nothing attractive about beckhams body at all! He is all skin n bone tbh. Those adverts he poses for have been edited and he will also have had something on his skin to make it look better (no different to a bodybuilder in a competition ;) ).
 
To the OP: explain why being gay is anything to be ashamed of. Sexuality is not "gay, straight or bi". In reality, there's no such thing: it is completely unique to each person. Repressing "gay" thoughts or feeling is very unhealthy. You can be married and love your wife, but have brotherly love towards a male friend, and there is nothing wrong with that.
 
Parsifal said:
To the OP: explain why being gay is anything to be ashamed of. Sexuality is not "gay, straight or bi". In reality, there's no such thing: it is completely unique to each person. Repressing "gay" thoughts or feeling is very unhealthy. You can be married and love your wife, but have brotherly love towards a male friend, and there is nothing wrong with that.
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