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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: benchthis on June 25, 2007, 10:56:18 PM
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i do belive its a type of art form 8)
remember
1. not a sport
2. but an art
3. hobby
4. past time
5. cult for some
thanks to gordiano for 3-5
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;D
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Artform, hobby, pastime.....absolutely.
EDIT: Also, a lifestyle, a cult (for some).
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What not a sport???????? Hey if curling, and golf are
considered a sport, then guess what bodybuilding is one for sure.
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i do belive its a type of art form 8)
remember
1. not a sport
2. but an art
both
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I never understood how won can refer to bodybuilding as an art??? Just has always boggled me.
Its a sport... with the amount of physical stress endured on the body, it better be a sport!
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I never understood how won can refer to bodybuilding as an art??? Just has always boggled me.
Its a sport... with the amount of physical stress endured on the body, it better be a sport!
ha then you have never watched pumping iron Arnold describes how it is a sport ... he describes himself as the sculptor and his body has the work of art hes sculpting
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Dorian Yates: Bodybuilding is a sport and I'm an athlete trying to be the best I can be.
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IM INTO IT FOR ALL THE MEN IN BIKINS ANY OTHER DUDES WITH ME? :P
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ha then you have never watched pumping iron Arnold describes how it is a sport ... he describes himself as the sculptor and his body has the work of art hes sculpting
Those two statements are contradictory!
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Dorian Yates: Bodybuilding is a sport and I'm an athlete trying to be the best I can be.
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you dont think dorian was an athlete?
ath·lete
a person trained or gifted in exercises or contests involving physical agility, stamina, or strength; a participant in a sport, exercise, or game requiring physical skill.
sounds like an athlete to me.
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bod·y·build·ing [bod-ee-bil-ding] –noun
the act or practice of exercising, lifting weights, etc., so as to develop the muscles of the body.
bod·y·build·ing (b?d'?-b?l'd?ng)
n. The process of developing the musculature of the body through specific types of diet and physical exercise, such as weightlifting, especially for competitive exhibition.
The definitions for footballl and baseball and hockey etc. describe them as a "game". So sport, it seems, must be a game of some kind which means that BB is a process or a practice or an art but not a sport.
Having now put to bed the definition of the word sport, the main thrust of this "sport/no sport" argument seems to be that BB is easy when compared to baseball or football and the like. That is quite untrue.
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I never understood how won can refer to bodybuilding as an art??? Just has always boggled me.
Its a sport... with the amount of physical stress endured on the body, it better be a sport!
No its not. There is no difference between bb comps and beauty pageants. Minus the beauty of course. Both contestants diet for months, train with weights, choreograph a routine and present themselves to a panel of judges. Just because a bb has to diet hard that does not make it a sport. Is a dieting fat ass an athlete since he works out and diets? A NFL player goes through about 500 times the "stress" of any pro bb That is all while dealing with injury,traveling and partaking in a actual athletic competition. You need superior athletic ablilty to 99 percent the population to be a succesful pro athlete. People talk about the suffering pro bb's go through. Wake up, eat, train, sleep, shit, take juice, train ,eat eat, sleep, repeat. Pro bb a pre madonas. They would claim that training for a few hours a day and dieting is comparable to the rigors real pros go through. Christ, your local mexican day worker busts his ass every day while eating little food. We should start clumping them in with guys like Barry Sanders. I repsect the dedicatoin and drive of pro bb's, but the "pro athlete" claims are just stupid. Bob Chick tried to tell me pro bb's should be in the same group as other elite pros athletes. Hmm lets see, Brady , Manning, Jordan, Bird, LT, Rice, Gretsky, Willie Mays, Arod, Paplebon, Ronnie Coleman and Frank Zane. Sounds about right. ::)
Pro bodybuilding requires no athletic ability. NO superior athleticism, vision or skill. You don't need superior speed or endurance. You need a lot of time to sleep, good genetics, and a lot of drugs.
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yup being categorized as an art is the best bb could hope for :)
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bod·y·build·ing [bod-ee-bil-ding] –noun
the act or practice of exercising, lifting weights, etc., so as to develop the muscles of the body.
bod·y·build·ing (b?d'?-b?l'd?ng)
n. The process of developing the musculature of the body through specific types of diet and physical exercise, such as weightlifting, especially for competitive exhibition.
The definitions for footballl and baseball and hockey etc. describe them as a "game". So sport, it seems, must be a game of some kind which means that BB is a process or a practice or an art but not a sport.
Having now put to bed the definition of the word sport, the main thrust of this "sport/no sport" argument seems to be that BB is easy when compared to baseball or football and the like. That is quite untrue.
I think the actual competition is way easier in bodybuilding than baseball, football or really any sport in the world. It is the preparation for the BB competition that is the hard part. And the hardest part about that is the dieting I think. Cause of the advancements in drugs, the working out part has even became easier than it was 25 years ago.
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I think the actual competition is way easier in bodybuilding than baseball, football or really any sport in the world. It is the preparation for the BB competition that is the hard part. And the hardest part about that is the dieting I think. Cause of the advancements in drugs, the working out part has even became easier than it was 25 years ago.
Given your vast experience in all three areas...dieting, training, and competing in BB...I can see where you would have that opinion...
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Given your vast experience in all three areas...dieting, training, and competing in BB...I can see where you would have that opinion...
hahahaha ;D
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i do belive its a type of art form 8)
remember
1. not a sport
2. but an art
3. hobby
4. past time
5. cult for some
thanks to gordiano for 3-5
I'm partial to # 5: Cult
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Given your vast experience in all three areas...dieting, training, and competing in BB...I can see where you would have that opinion...
ok artist ::)
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Guess what? USA TODAY reports on poker players in its sports section. :P
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you dont think dorian was an athlete?
ath·lete
a person trained or gifted in exercises or contests involving physical agility, stamina, or strength; a participant in a sport, exercise, or game requiring physical skill.
sounds like an athlete to me.
Exept for the strength part, you can leave Dorian or anyother pro out of this. Also, define "strength", athletic strength is different from "bodybuilding" strength!
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Guess what? USA TODAY reports on poker players in its sports section. :P
That's hilarious! Call Websters! We need to change the definition of athlete!
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Guess what? USA TODAY reports on poker players in its sports section. :P
Well where else would they report it? Business?
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Well where else would they report it? Business?
How about the Boring section?
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bodybuilding is not a sport dammit >:(
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Given your vast experience in all three areas...dieting, training, and competing in BB...I can see where you would have that opinion...
hahaha the only thing you had me on was dieting. Why diet and torture myself. Like I said anytime you want to match blood tests, Mr. Healthy. I was 298 and am pretty sure at your top shape the only thing were better than me at was bodybuilding. I was very athletic and active at 298. I am pretty sure you couldn't have kept up with me back then in lifting and I competed on stage too. Maybe not bodybuilding which is just a pageant but I competed in a REAL sport with real physical competition. Oh and I earned my title I was not given like someone we know. Chic please, don't try to make it sound like you are god almighty. It took you 16 years to get a pro card and you were given a title. Thats nice and everything, but really. ;D
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..yea chic that is true you didnt deserve to win the masters olympia it was a gift you sucked... well not sucked but .... you didnt deserve to win Rusty did
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answer me athlete >:(
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You know how bad BB is really is. ESPN stands for Entertainment Sports Programming Network. The other things like darts, chess, poker and whatever are not really sports more than they are entertainment. Remember when the WWF got allot of shit for calling what they do a "sport". Now they call it "sports entertainment". BB can't even rank as entertainment. Now that's sad.
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onlyme is right therefore its an art 8) i win
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Bodybuilding is an athletically-inspired underground subculture.
There you have it. ;)
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...what about golf ;D
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Mr. Intenseone says bodybuilding IS a sport, but I think he's wrong!
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You know how bad BB is really is. ESPN stands for Entertainment Sports Programming Network. The other things like darts, chess, poker and whatever are not really sports more than they are entertainment. Remember when the WWF got allot of shit for calling what they do a "sport". Now they call it "sports entertainment". BB can't even rank as entertainment. Now that's sad.
Uh, Keith, I'm not 100% on this, but I think they changed it from strictly 'sports' to 'entertainment' because the tax rates for the latter were a lot less that the former. Just Vince doing business as usual.
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You can't compare comp. bbing to wrestling. Wrestlers are actually athletic, even the big fat guys can do athletic shit. And if that wasn't enough, the wrestlers have personality, something the IFBB desperately needs from its competitors. Wrestlers can also make millions, if they reach the top. Bbers, well, you know.....
The only things pro wrestling and bbing have in common:
Drug use/abuse
Neither is shown on Sports channels
Both are scripted
It helps to kiss the promoter's ass
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Uh, Keith, I'm not 100% on this, but I think they changed it from strictly 'sports' to 'entertainment' because the tax rates for the latter were a lot less that the former. Just Vince doing business as usual.
That and the drug issue.
Apparently if your not running a "sports/sporting" event, you can get away without following certain guidelines (drug tests).
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Mr. Intenseone says bodybuilding IS a sport, but I think he's wrong!
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BLOW ME!!
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Dr. Chimps and Gordiano I think you are both right about that.
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>:(
BLOW ME!!
Sorry.... that's Peggy's job! ;D
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bump my own thread suck it... its not a sport : >:(
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bump my own thread suck it... its not a sport : >:(
Of course not.
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bump my own thread suck it... its a sport : >:(
agreed
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