Definition of a bodybuilder?

[MichaelScottDM]

If one doesn't compete, can he or she still call or consider themselves a bodybuilder? I don't compete, but I do stick to a very disciplined meal plan and gym routine. I always try to make improvements with my physique and push myself extremely hard during workouts. Does this make me a bodybuilder?

[dyslexic]

Anyone who makes an effort to change their body in any way, shape or form, is at some degree considered a "bodybuilder"


Now, depending on how far you take this, or how serious you take it, or how extreme you become, only then might you make the discernment between what *kind* of bodybuilder you are.

[Kwon_2]

Someone who builds/shapes/forms the body.