Is there anyone here that actually respects bodybuilding as a "sport"?

[Army of One]

Most guys on here seem to like weight training,nutrition, adding muscle size etc but think bodybuilding as a "sport" is gayer than a dvd boxset of queer eye for the straight guy.Discuss

[alexxx]

Not only is it a sport for the elite but it is the greatest sport!

When done properly!

[Tredders]

Chess, dart throwing and syncronised swimming are counted as sports. If so i say bodybuilding makes the list. Being musclebound would be a test of anyones endurance, bluto need not worry, he needs 100lb's of mass yet before he's muscle bound at 215lb 

[Army of One]

Not only is it a sport for the elite but it is the greatest sport!

When done properly!

Im talking about Pro Level and getting up onstage in a thong, wearing baby oil and the Shmoes cheering when they get a look at your buttcrack

[Chick]

Most guys on here seem to like weight training,nutrition, adding muscle size etc but think bodybuilding as a "sport" is gayer than a dvd boxset of queer eye for the straight guy.Discuss

It's all in the eye of the beholder...

[ManBearPig...]

Im talking about Pro Level and getting up onstage in a thong, wearing baby oil and the Shmoes cheering when they get a look at your buttcrack

gay.

[Army of One]

It's all in the eye of the beholder...

So you think oiled up men, posing for a large male audience in a thong is respectable Chick?

[Sergio Rules 77]

For me pro bodybuilding died as a sport somewhere round the year 2001, but I still respect bodybuilding as a sport and as a means to build, not only ones body, but confidence, mind, personality, etc.

SERGIO!!!!

[Tredders]

So you think oiled up men, posing for a large male audience in a thong is respectable Chick?

He aint lying down getting nailed in the ass with an electronic dildo like Melissa D. Chick has my support... give em hell budday 

[Army of One]

For me pro bodybuilding died as a sport somewhere round the year 2001, but I still respect bodybuilding as a sport and as a means to build, not only ones body, but confidence, mind, personality, etc.

SERGIO!!!!

I dont think anyone questions that part, Im talking about when the money gets involved, the politics of pro level, the audience of pro level, the "way" the pros have to make money to survive etc. The things you described I cringe to term under the name "bodybuilding" as it taints it too much.

[Chick]

So you think oiled up men, posing for a large male audience in a thong is respectable Chick?

I've trained and competed for 28 years...never once have I worn a "thong" on stage.

I've also been to hunderds of BB shows, both amateur and professional...I would say the crown is 50/50.

[Army of One]

He aint lying down getting nailed in the ass with an electronic dildo like Melissa D. Chick has my support... give em hell budday 

Maybe not in public on video....

[Army of One]

I've trained and competed for 28 years...never once have I worn a "thong" on stage.

I've also been to hunderds of BB shows, both amateur and professional...I would say the crown is 50/50.

so you are saying, on the record ,that the trunks havnt shrunk since say Arnolds day to display more of the male glutes?

[Tredders]

Maybe not in public on video....

lol  It always amazes me that chick gets so much hate and yet Dan Solomon doesnt get any criticism.

[monstercalves]

bodybuilding = greatest sport

[Chick]

Of course they have, as glute developement became a means to indicate conditioning, the trunks got smaller to reflect it...times change.

Whats your point?

[Army of One]

Of course they have, as glute developement became a means to indicate conditioning, the trunks got smaller to reflect it...times change.

Whats your point?

...and you think that was the sole reason for it?

[Tredders]

Of course they have, as glute developement became a means to indicate conditioning, the trunks got smaller to reflect it...times change.

Whats your point?

He's just a little insecure because after the pose down his pants are painted white 

[Tamer Razor]

It's lack of minimum comon sense to associate individual problems with the sport. Bodybuilding as any other sport has individuals with high and low moral values.

[Chick]

No other reason I can think of....
What's the reasoning behind football pants getting smaller and tighter?

Baseball....went from big old baggy pants, to skin tight spandex-like pants...

Again...whats your point?

[Army of One]

It's lack of minimum comon sense to associate individual problems with the sport. Bodybuilding as any other sport has individuals with high and low moral values.

I disagree, the gay image has been played up by practically every BB that I have seen in 1 form or another.

[Tredders]

No other reason I can think of....
What's the reasoning behind football pants getting smaller and tighter?

Baseball....went from big old baggy pants, to skin tight spandex-like pants...

Again...whats your point?

He just went out to costco for a keyboard cover, getting ready to watch this years olympia without any hassels  

[Army of One]

No other reason I can think of....
What's the reasoning behind football pants getting smaller and tighter?

Baseball....went from big old baggy pants, to skin tight spandex-like pants...

Again...whats your point?

The same reason that 100 metre runners have it done too, Aerodynamics, why Chick do BB need to make use of Aerodynamics?

[benjamin pearson]

I respect bodybuilders especially ones like chick..... but there is way to much homoerotic behaviour in todays "sport" (see JOJ, Derek Anthony etc)

[Army of One]

I respect bodybuilders especially ones like chick..... but there is way to much homoerotic behaviour in todays "sport" (see JOJ, Derek Anthony etc)

Exactly, the fact Bob isnt willing to admit to this shows how large the problem is considering his candidness on most other aspects.