Bob Chick is the "Athletes Rep"...

[HICKSON]

I find it funny that Professional Bodybuilding is the only profession that 80% or more have to have a second profession to support their first profession.

[tom joad]

Bob and his brethren can refer to themselves as "athletes" if they wish but they ain't fooling nobody.

[emn1964]

I find it funny that Professional Bodybuilding is the only profession that 80% or more have to have a second profession to support their first profession.

i find it equally amusing that "Professional Bodybuilding" is the only job that REQUIRES you to take illegal drugs and thereby break the law.

[doison]

I dislike bodybuilding as much as the next guy....but I never did get the incessant uproar about the term "athlete." 
Seriously, who gives a fuck?  Can people really care about it so much that they start MANY threads debating the appropriateness of the term?


Honestly, with all the gems bbing gives us to mock, people come back to this one time and time again?  None of us are professional "athletes" in any sport, so why the fuck do people care if someone is worthy of the term?  There is a ton of solid mockable shit about bodybuilding, and Mindspin starts another thread about the term "athlete?"