heh, I'm stretching...
There are a ton of middle-aged guys who ride street bikes around here. It's the newest fad for guys from 35-55. They all have money. And so buy $3k bikes and all the trimmings. Including the skin tight shirt and shorts with the bike racing stripes and logo look. And the gloves and pointy helmet.
I'd say about 75% of them are about 30-40% bf with a nice pot-belly bouncing against their knees as they peddle up and down hills huffing and puffing against the highest possible gear ratio money can buy. They are all posers. Wannabes. Never-wills. Have too much money and not enough sense. Don't want to pay their dues. Want instant gratification. Want the 5% bf look with a double cheeseburger and fries on the side.
I'll pay my dues before I cash in...
lmao
we are kindred spirits young skywalker.
i agree with you completely, but your making a mistake here.
think about this for a second. you are not doing strong man anymore, you are BODYBUILDING. now, i know i'm not an expert and you can take this or leave it, but bodybuilding IS about
exhibition. the quicker you acknowledge that and abandon your phobias the better. if you weren't about exhibition you wouldn't have taken gear and put synthol in your arms.

this is what gets me about bbers. i respect them totally but they often seem to be in a constant state of contradiction. it's like they feel they have to maintain this macho pretense to cover up for their narcisism.
they think that they can hide away and one day they will have developed enough muscle to finally come out and say, "look, i'm here!" as if anyone will give a shit.
it's like the guy that trains mma/boxing/whatever that hasn't got the confidence to get in the ring and spar or fight, so he turns up and trains dilligently, figuring that one day he'll suddenly turn into mike tyson or mirko cro cop and shock the world when what they should have been doing was fighting, win, lose or draw. when they finally get into the ring/octagon they get destroyed quickly and all their hopes are gone in a flash. usually they quit at this point. i feel sorry for these guys but if they only realised that to be good at something you have to do it ie you don't become a great tennis player by just practising the back hand every day.
bodybuilding = exhibition - accept this fact and take off the shackles of machismo bullshit.