Does Mike Wolfe have a valid point here?

[Scimowser]

I think hes got a good argument, maybe not to the letter but his achievements should get the respect and cash they deserve!


How do you think that bodybuilding ruins power lifting?

I'm not going to say that it ruins our sport but it definitely puts our sport on the back burner. We may not all be ripped with abs of steel and have dark Caribbean tans, but we work our asses off and we deserve a piece of that pie. Why should a bodybuilding show pay a $100,000?

And we are lucky to get $2000. Shouldn't supplement companies look at us also? Don't we use a vast majority of there products also. How can a Bodybuilder live a million dollar lifestyle, but George Halbert has to bust his ass at a 40 hour a week job and then do all his training on top of that. You know a lot of theses hardcore guys say they do it for the love of the sport, but you can't tell me if you were making some greenbacks off this sport you wouldn't love it more. Why do we have to be the Black Sheep of the weightlifting world? It is time for Companies to realize that there is a group of people out there that are just as addicted to the taste of iron as the Big Vascular Ripped guys you have on your bottles of testosterone boosters. Bigger benches squats and deadlifts will sell products just as fast as a ripped guy in a thong. I do want to thank the Companies out there that do recognize our sport Inzer, Metal, Titan, House of Pain, and MHP

[Bluto]

no.

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[Hedgehog]

Mike Wolfe needs to ask himself one question:

Is making a 100% effort to be the best he can be?

When I read what he eats and how he trains, it is clear to me that he is not.

He eats tons of junk food and seems to be somewhat lazy with the GPP.

YIP
Zack

[Bluto]

well if he eats that much junkfood maybe he can get a sponsordeal for a fast food chain

[240 is Back]

People are paid what the market dictates.

While a BBing contest is uber gay to the audience, a PLing show can be worse.  The average layman can't really comprehend the guy benching 700 pounds vs. 900 pounds.  They can root for a ripped Dexter vs. a huge Ruhl.

[Bluto]

lifters need to get into their thick skulls that people care more about looks than strength.
nobody gives a shit if you bench so and so much.

[Figo]

I think hes got a good argument, maybe not to the letter but his achievements should get the respect and cash they deserve!


How do you think that bodybuilding ruins power lifting?

I'm not going to say that it ruins our sport but it definitely puts our sport on the back burner. We may not all be ripped with abs of steel and have dark Caribbean tans, but we work our asses off and we deserve a piece of that pie. Why should a bodybuilding show pay a $100,000?

And we are lucky to get $2000. Shouldn't supplement companies look at us also? Don't we use a vast majority of there products also. How can a Bodybuilder live a million dollar lifestyle, but George Halbert has to bust his ass at a 40 hour a week job and then do all his training on top of that. You know a lot of theses hardcore guys say they do it for the love of the sport, but you can't tell me if you were making some greenbacks off this sport you wouldn't love it more. Why do we have to be the Black Sheep of the weightlifting world? It is time for Companies to realize that there is a group of people out there that are just as addicted to the taste of iron as the Big Vascular Ripped guys you have on your bottles of testosterone boosters. Bigger benches squats and deadlifts will sell products just as fast as a ripped guy in a thong. I do want to thank the Companies out there that do recognize our sport Inzer, Metal, Titan, House of Pain, and MHP

Who

[The Squadfather]

lifters need to get into their thick skulls that people care more about looks than strength.
nobody gives a shit if you bench so and so much.

hahaha, that's why everyone in the gym stops and watches when someone benches 500 plus or squats 700 plus.

[Figo]

People are paid what the market dictates.

While a BBing contest is uber gay to the audience, a PLing show can be worse.  The average layman can't really comprehend the guy benching 700 pounds vs. 900 pounds.  They can root for a ripped Dexter vs. a huge Ruhl.

Dont the avg public love WSM?

[Bluto]

hahaha, that's why everyone in the gym stops and watches when someone benches 500 plus or squats 700 plus.

yeah they probably stop and wonder who's that grunting fat fuck is and what the hell he's doing.
you think anyone in the real world gives a shit about how much someone squats or deadlifts?

[The Squadfather]

yeah they probably stop and wonder who's that grunting fat f**k is and what the hell he's doing.
you think anyone in the real world gives a shit about how much someone squats or deadlifts?

you do, otherwise you wouldn't have so much emotion and anger invested in your answer.

[Bluto]

you do, otherwise you wouldn't have so much emotion and anger invested in your answer.

i do so therefore there should be way much more money involved in the sport of lifting? yeah that make sense.

[The Squadfather]

i do so therefore there should be way much more money involved in the sport of lifting? yeah that make sense.

if i was a betting man i'd wager that you were in the gym benching 115 for a set of 6 and the local powerlifter came in and lifted you off the bench when he saw you using it and picked you up and sat you in the water fountain.

[Bluto]

if i was a betting man i'd wager that you were in the gym benching 115 for a set of 6 and the local powerlifter came in and lifted you off the bench when he saw you using it and picked you up and sat you in the water fountain.

i dont bench. and how much you bench is as interesting as how much you fart. maybe you can have people compete in that and then bitch about why they don't earn any serious money.
and it would still suit your definition - people would stop and look.

[240 is Back]

WSM - they fight in circles, they pull buses, they carry trees.

They don't do the same 3 lifts for a 3 inch ROM all day.

[buffbodz]

First off, how many have even been to a PL show.  I went to the National Masters in New Orleans a few years back with 2 clients and their were way more competitors than fans and with a 10 dollar ticket, how can you split $$?  Most people who were staying at the hotel kinda of looked like it as a freak show and hit the city instead.  This was a national show with about 100 paid fans.  Most were their to cheer on friends or family.  The numbers just aren't their to make it a sport that will be the lifters only income.  Even bodybuilders are few and far between to just make a living off BB.

Power lifting is and always will be a sport of love not of riches.  You either love to see how much you can lift, without regard for what you look like or you can lift for astectics.  People would rather pay to see astectics over sheer power.

[Figo]

WSM - they fight in circles, they pull buses, they carry trees.

They don't do the same 3 lifts for a 3 inch ROM all day.

There are similarities, as most WSM guys have PL backgrounds, in effect we agree that to make PL more markeatable they gotta change things  ???or just keep it as a sideshow.

[The Squadfather]

WSM - they fight in circles, they pull buses, they carry trees.

They don't do the same 3 lifts for a 3 inch ROM all day.

very good point, powerlifting today is a joke, if the "sport" was more like it was in the 70's with next to no suits, shirts, etc. and guys lifting through a normal ROM and not all of the head banging, face slapping, screaming, 10 guys on the platform with you squatting, etc. it would be more popular.

[youandme]

Who

Flex and several others have spinners

[Figo]

very good point, powerlifting today is a joke, if the "sport" was more like it was in the 70's with next to no suits, shirts, etc. and guys lifting through a normal ROM and not all of the head banging, face slapping, screaming, 10 guys on the platform with you squatting, etc. it would be more popular.

True, you can tell who the fuck is who, or whats what.

[buffbodz]

very good point, powerlifting today is a joke, if the "sport" was more like it was in the 70's with next to no suits, shirts, etc. and guys lifting through a normal ROM and not all of the head banging, face slapping, screaming, 10 guys on the platform with you squatting, etc. it would be more popular.

That's a fact.  WSM are way more popular than a PL meet.  Just the different and crazy feats of strength are way more entertaining than watching dudes do the same 3 lifts and walking around like mummy's with all the bench shirts, squat suits and dead lifting suits.  Now talk about stuffing 10lbs. of shit in a 5lb. bag.........

The fact is that power lifting meets, unless your competing, are a boar to most.  That's the bottom line, no fans no cash.  Keep your day job.

[Figo]

That's a fact.  WSM are way more popular than a PL meet.  Just the different and crazy feats of strength are way more entertaining than watching dudes do the same 3 lifts and walking around like mummy's with all the bench shirts, squat suits and dead lifting suits.  Now talk about stuffing 10lbs. of shit in a 5lb. bag.........

The fact is that power lifting meets, unless your competing, are a boar to most.  That's the bottom line, no fans no cash.  Keep your day job.

What is the day job?

[Bluto]

that being said WSM isnt that popular either

[bigtmoney]

Flex and several others have spinners

LOL!!! 

[Farcry]

How come WSM is on TV and bodybuilding is not?