Bodybuilders and their brains

[TK]

What bodybuilders do to their bodies - and brains

Creating a physique that can win at the highest level of professional bodybuilding requires superhuman self-discipline, intense training and genetic good fortune. Increasingly, say the people familiar with the culture and its consequences, it cannot be done without illicit drugs and a willingness to push a body to - or past - its limits.

More than a dozen scientists, trainers, judges and competitors interviewed for this report said that just earning a pro card, an amateur's ticket to the pro ranks, is very difficult without anabolic steroids. Winning a marquee title drug-free? Several people laughed at the question.

"Impossible," said Harrison Pope, one of the country's leading anabolic-steroid researchers.

The behemoths who win the best-known and most lucrative titles barely resemble the iconic, classically muscled champions of the past, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, who won the sport's premiere title, Mr. Olympia, seven times between 1970 and 1980.

"Arnold Schwarzenegger would not win today," said Brad Schoenfeld, a professor at Lehman College in New York and author of several books on bodybuilding and muscle growth. "He would not even get a pro card."


Read full article here

https://news.yahoo.com/bodybuilders-bodies-brains-181442737.html

[NarcissisticDeity]

My ass he wouldn't get a pro card. They're handing them out to people who shouldn't get them

[stuntmovie]

That's another WP article.

It will be interesting to see  if 'they' show up at the Olympia and  continue their assault upon the world of bodybuilding.

[Wiggs]

Looks like Wayne Demilia and Jim Rockell and some others are still on their IFBB/Jim Manion destruction campaign.

[IroNat]

Something should be done about this.

If this keeps up the sport will be ruined.

Bodybuilding must be returned to the pristine state it was in when Arnold competed.

[Dalnet]

Something should be done about this.

If this keeps up the sport will be ruined.

Bodybuilding must be returned to the pristine state it was in when Arnold competed.

I just hope the 'clients' I have during schmoe sessions don't turn on me. Luckily, men tend to be more discreet than some of these bitter spurned women, so thankfully I'm hopeful this doesn't spill into a metoo situation for the men in the pro ranks... I do however have some concerns as people like Brendan Fraser have started thinking it's acceptable to speak publicly about this. Terry Crews pulled the same shit, and this is unacceptable. Et tu, Brutal if true? Then fall Schmoeser

[pamith]

Lou is looking at Arnold with concern

[Henda]

Hold on Isn’t Brad Schoenfeld that disgusting scrawny little nerd with the massive head who spent his life studying training but still looks like he never touched a weight in his life?

[Hulkotron]

Hold on Isn’t Brad Schoenfeld that disgusting scrawny little nerd with the massive head who spent his life studying training but still looks like he never touched a weight in his life?

Maybe he goes for the health look.

[joswift]

Hold on Isn’t Brad Schoenfeld that disgusting scrawny little nerd with the massive head who spent his life studying training but still looks like he never touched a weight in his life?

No, thats Brian Hankins

[_bruce_]

Hold on Isn’t Brad Schoenfeld that disgusting scrawny little nerd with the massive head who spent his life studying training but still looks like he never touched a weight in his life?

Seems like he's more into the gluteal aspect of "training hard".