I never understood how won can refer to bodybuilding as an art??? Just has always boggled me.
Its a sport... with the amount of physical stress endured on the body, it better be a sport!
No its not. There is no difference between bb comps and beauty pageants. Minus the beauty of course. Both contestants diet for months, train with weights, choreograph a routine and present themselves to a panel of judges. Just because a bb has to diet hard that does not make it a sport. Is a dieting fat ass an athlete since he works out and diets? A NFL player goes through about 500 times the "stress" of any pro bb That is all while dealing with injury,traveling and partaking in a actual athletic competition. You need superior
athletic ablilty to 99 percent the population to be a succesful pro athlete. People talk about the suffering pro bb's go through. Wake up, eat, train, sleep, shit, take juice, train ,eat eat, sleep, repeat. Pro bb a pre madonas. They would claim that training for a few hours a day and dieting is comparable to the rigors real pros go through. Christ, your local mexican day worker busts his ass every day while eating little food. We should start clumping them in with guys like Barry Sanders. I repsect the dedicatoin and drive of pro bb's, but the "pro athlete" claims are just stupid. Bob Chick tried to tell me pro bb's should be in the same group as other elite pros athletes. Hmm lets see, Brady , Manning, Jordan, Bird, LT, Rice, Gretsky, Willie Mays, Arod, Paplebon, Ronnie Coleman and Frank Zane. Sounds about right.
Pro bodybuilding requires no athletic ability. NO superior athleticism, vision or skill. You don't need superior speed or endurance. You need a lot of time to sleep, good genetics, and a lot of drugs.
