"I Bodybuild for Myself"....What a Load of Crap

[Arnold jr]

You hear this all the time, "I bodybuild for myself" or "I compete for myself" I'm speaking of actual competitors not people who train just to look a little better.

Little sayings like this have gotten on my nerves for years. We can argue about bodybuilding being a sport or not until the cows come home but that doesn't matter, the point is competitive bodybuilding is the only competition in the world where people talk like this and it's ridiculous. So you want to go through hell for months just to stand on stage and say "I did it" that's enough? That's like receiving a participation trophy or how our society has begun to treat little children with the "everyone is a winner" idea and that is just as retarded.

Such thinking IMO takes away from competitive bodybuilding so much, it takes away from the main focus and point of competition and worst of all it provides the individual with an easy excuse...you get your ass handed to you and you're easily able to shrug it off as nothing, after all, you didn't care if you won or lost, you were just competing against yourself...again, what a load of crap.

Sure, there are exceptions. There's always that guy who recently lost 100lbs and got into really good shape or a women who has had a few kids and recently gotten into shape and wants to prove to themselves they have what it takes. That's fine, I have no problem with that but once that's said and done, once your past the initial stage it's time to up the ante a little bit and start focusing on winning.

Personally I'd love to see competitive bodybuilding have a little more attitude behind it and the above is exactly why it has so little. Imagine if any other competition thought the way so many competitive bodybuilders do, it would suck the life right out of them.

Don't get me wrong, of course self-improvement is a worthwhile goal but that is not the point here...you can be rewarded by self-improvement in-terms of your physique by simply looking at the improvements in the mirror but when you take the main driving point out of competition, to actually win you defeat the purpose of competition altogether.

OK, that's my rant!

[Dr Dutch]

 

[The Italian Lifter]

clearly off season

[Schmoe Buster]

Haha, same kind of people will say ''i dont do free weights cos i get too big''

[notsureifsrs]

I agree, another annoying thinking is : "my goal is top 5" or top x (Dennis Wolf is good example for this as he said that before the last O", but it's just a dumb excuse...

[Tito24]

Haha, same kind of people will say ''i dont do free weights cos i get too big''

nothing as annoying as hearing stupid housewifes say "you sure when i do these weights i dont turn into a bber?" the first day they step into the gym with their fat asses

[mass243]

Hhahaha, yes

That's like when females say they dress and make up for themselves 

HAHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAAHA H

[Schmoe Buster]

nothing as annoying as hearing stupid housewifes say "you sure when i do these weights i dont turn into a bber?" the first day they step into the gym with their fat asses

The classic bitch lifting the 2lb pink dumbells with no muscle contraction and just momentum then saying ''i dont want to look like Arnold''
yes bitch its that easy

[The Italian Lifter]

lolz

[DK II]

The classic bitch lifting the 2lb pink dumbells with no muscle contraction and just momentum then saying ''i dont want to look like Arnold''
yes bitch its that easy

Makes me want to hit someone in the face immediately when i hear that shit. 

[cephissus]

uh, isn't it mostly the people who don't compete who say this?

and usually they say it to oppose the accusation they do it for girls?

[Arnold jr]

uh, isn't it mostly the people who don't compete who say this?

and usually they say it to oppose the accusation they do it for girls?

Sure, a lot of people say it but it is everywhere in competitive bodybuilding and that's largely my point. It's annoying. Go to any message board where people post pics of "I'm XYZ wks out" and each wk they'll talk about how this is a battle against themselves and in some ways it is, that's true but then they'll follow it up with things like "I just want to look better than I did last time" or my favorite of all time "Just being on stage is a win for me." You know, they'll let anyone on stage; I could sit on my ass for a full year drinking bear and eating pork fat, grow a mean beard on my back and show up butt ass white and if I paid my money they'd let me on stage. If I do this do I get to claim a victory after the show?

[local hero]

ive got to agree,,, ive never dieted for a show thinking that, who wants to diet n spend all that money not to win


youd never hear a boxer talking like that, or any other competitior....

[ManBearPig...]

ive got to agree,,, ive never dieted for a show thinking that, who wants to diet n spend all that money not to win


youd never hear a boxer talking like that, or any other competitior....

because it's a pageant, not a competition.

[Arnold jr]

because it's a pageant, not a competition.

I knew someone would say that and I even clarified this in the original post. Sport, pageant, super-duper-extravaganza, whatever you want to call it is irrelevant. In any case it's still a competition and there's no other competition in the world that has such thinking to such a strong degree...at least not one that I can think of.

For the sake of argument, let's call it a pageant, can you name another pageant where the participants are only up there for themselves? Of course not because that's retarded and a losers mentality.

[DK II]

I knew someone would say that and I even clarified this in the original post. Sport, pageant, super-duper-extravaganza, whatever you want to call it is irrelevant. In any case it's still a competition and there's no other competition in the world that has such thinking to such a strong degree...at least not one that I can think of.

For the sake of argument, let's call it a pageant, can you name another pageant where the participants are only up there for themselves? Of course not because that's retarded and a losers mentality.

you sound bitter, is there something? 

[Krankenstein]

clearly off season

Not according to some of the shows he entered.   

[Arnold jr]

you sound bitter, is there something? 

Bitter? No, just annoyed at the mentality, as I find it weak and pathetic and even selfish to a degree in many cases. I see this behavior or way of thinking in so many different areas of life, in competitive bodybuilding it simply stands out because most things revolving around competitive bodybuilding stand out in an extreme way.

I wonder if Arnold ever said, "I'm competing for myself, it doesn't matter if I win or lose." You think he ever really thought that way? I doubt it, otherwise he wouldn't be Arnold.

[kevcat]

Hhahaha, yes

That's like when females say they dress and make up for themselves 

HAHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAAHA H

A little bit of your insecurity coming out here bro

[Nirvana]

the problem is

the best guys don't win

[local hero]

Hhahaha, yes

That's like when females say they dress and make up for themselves 

HAHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAAHA H

100% correct,,,, yeh they spend hrs in front the mirror slapping makeup on and wearing next to nothing, wearing uncomfortable heels etc.. just for them!

just like i watch what i eat and do cardio for a few weeks before i go on holiday, just for me... got nothing to do with looking good on the beach and having women check u out!