are bodybuilders athletes?

[Devon97]

okay but again, bodybuilders are trained or skilled in exercises that require physical strength (weightlifting). There is no way you can disagree with this statement.
And where exactly does the definition state that you have to be judged in one of the following things to be considered an athlete? If the definition would be something like,
a person that is judged in an exercise, sport or games that requires physical strength, agility or stamina, then you would have a point. But nowhere it is stated that athlete has to fulfill the above stated during a competition or be judged in one of the above stated conditions. . It simple refers to the persons skills per se.
According to webster bb are athletes as they are skilled and trained in weightlifting. This skill is not used during the actual competition but only in preparation, but this is totally insignificant as this is not required to fulfill the definition of an athlete according to webster.

LOL YOu got to be kidding!!! OF course the definition refers to the actual "COMPETITION" or SHOW. Who cares what they do at workouts or practice.
No one cares what a football player does at practice.... or HOW they practice. Its all about HOW they perform in a GAME
No one cares how or what a bber does during a workout.. or if he or she even works out! THE only think that matters is what they do on stage! And that one criteria is their---------->Appearance

For those of you who are hell bent on being considered an athlete. WHy dont u just take up Powerlifting or olympic lifting or better yet strongmen competition then you can be deemed athletes.

[Tamer Razor]

LOL YOu got to be kidding!!! OF course the definition refers to the actual "COMPETITION" or SHOW. Who cares what they do at workouts or practice.
No one cares what a football player does at practice.... or HOW they practice. Its all about HOW they perform in a GAME
No one cares how or what a bber does during a workout.. or if he or she even works out! THE only think that matters is what they do on stage! And that one criteria is their---------->Appearance

For those of you who are hell bent on being considered an athlete. WHy dont u just take up Powerlifting or olympic lifting or better yet strongmen competition then you can be deemed athletes.

If you think so low of bodybuiding and bodybuilders WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN A BODYBUIDING SITE???
Seriously if bodybuilding is not a sport and bodybuilders are not athletes them you are telling me you enjoy just looking at Muscular oil Men ............Strange....v ery Strange

[Tamer Razor]

LOL YOu got to be kidding!!! OF course the definition refers to the actual "COMPETITION" or SHOW. Who cares what they do at workouts or practice.
No one cares what a football player does at practice.... or HOW they practice. Its all about HOW they perform in a GAME
No one cares how or what a bber does during a workout.. or if he or she even works out! THE only think that matters is what they do on stage! And that one criteria is their---------->Appearance

For those of you who are hell bent on being considered an athlete. WHy dont u just take up Powerlifting or olympic lifting or better yet strongmen competition then you can be deemed athletes.

If you follow bodybuilding you know that several bodybuilders are powerlifters or train with powerlifters and strongmen. Dude you really just trying to put Bodybuiding down ...you don't have a point. The majority of athletes in the world use bodybuilding to improve their perfomance in their sport. What are you saying is just a complete lack of knowlegde in sports History.

[Devon97]

If you think so low of bodybuiding and bodybuilders WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN A BODYBUIDING SITE???
Seriously if bodybuilding is not a sport and bodybuilders are not athletes them you are telling me you enjoy just looking at Muscular oil Men ............Strange....v ery Strange

Already told you... I am here to make fun of them , just like 80% of the rest of GB!

[Devon97]

If you follow bodybuilding you know that several bodybuilders are powerlifters or train with powerlifters and strongmen. Dude you really just trying to put Bodybuiding down ...you don't have a point. The majority of athletes in the world use bodybuilding to improve their perfomance in their sport. What are you saying is just a complete lack of knowlegde in sports History.

Um, no they dont. They use olympic lifts and the conjugate method as used by Westside Barbell and Louie Simmons. Have you seen how Tikki Barber trains ? I can assure you he is not lifting for a "pump" on some silly Smith machine lol.

[haider]

If you follow bodybuilding you know that several bodybuilders are powerlifters or train with powerlifters and strongmen. Dude you really just trying to put Bodybuiding down ...you don't have a point. The majority of athletes in the world use bodybuilding to improve their perfomance in their sport. What are you saying is just a complete lack of knowlegde in sports History.

Then your definition of bodybuilding is either totally wrong or far too broad.

[Unchained81]

btw...nice job fucking up your physique..!

Nice.

[Tamer Razor]

Already told you... I am here to make fun of them , just like 80% of the rest of GB!

Well that is your right. If you hate bodybuilding that much and just want to make fun of bodybuilders. just seems like a waste of time

[Tamer Razor]

Then your definition of bodybuilding is either totally wrong or far too broad.

From Franco Columbu, Odd Haugen( The godfather of stongmen in the USA- was a competitor bobybuilding), jonnie Jackson( bodybuilding and powerlifter champion)
The history of several sports indicats that athletes were specifically told not to touch a weights( Basketball, Baseball....and the list goes on) modern athletes today in different sport still work close with bodybuildings to improve perfomance. Endless examples.

[onlyme]

If you follow bodybuilding you know that several bodybuilders are powerlifters or train with powerlifters and strongmen. Dude you really just trying to put Bodybuiding down ...you don't have a point. The majority of athletes in the world use bodybuilding to improve their perfomance in their sport. What are you saying is just a complete lack of knowlegde in sports History.

You are wrong.  Athletes utilize weight training (now)to help improve their performance  That doesn't mean Bodybuilding.  Back in the 70's and even early 80's lifting weights was NOT recommended.  Coaches and trainers thought that lifting weights would make you too tight and thus more suspect able to injury. 

[dirk digler]

From Franco Columbu, Odd Haugen( The godfather of stongmen in the USA- was a competitor bobybuilding), jonnie Jackson( bodybuilding and powerlifter champion)
The history of several sports indicats that athletes were specifically told not to touch a weights( Basketball, Baseball....and the list goes on) modern athletes today in different sport still work close with bodybuildings to improve perfomance. Endless examples.

Athletes strength train. That is VERY DIFFERENT from what bodybuilders do in the gym. Matter of fact it is the very reason that guys were discouraged from going to the weight room in decades past. They would inadvertily do what bodybuilders do and their performance in games would suffer. Not until American coaches learned about training with weights for power, speed and strength, were players encouraged to do it. Why is it that you haven't seen a competitive bodybuilder in the WSM since '77 when Franco and company got their posing trunks handed to them by a RETIRED, 43 YEAR OLD olympic weightlifter??

[rccs]

LOL c'mon , at least the Olympics has a testing protocol. TO compare what an Olympic sprinter takes to what Ronnie Coleman takes is like comparing a row boat to a aircraft carrier

Do u really beliebe a college wrestler is taking "industrial amounts of gear" ?

Or a Female 400m sprinter... also on "Industrial amounts of gear"?

You might be the most dumb sum'bitch on GB 

Once more your arguments are not valid. "College wrestler" And natural bbers???
Femalle sprinter??? Do you have a TV??? How many of them were cought on doping tests???
Let me see, you are a tiny guy that think that guys with muscle and strength are retarded!!!!
Well, you are in the wrong site, but probably you don't realise because you are an idiot!