"Industry People": does the bodybuilding/fitness decline affects you?

[240 is Back]

let's make it gender neutral.  Female athletes doing porn is just as damaging to the image of the sport.

but there should also be a 2 year ban (after time served) for anyone convicted of a felony.  anyone under indictment should probably be suspended.

Both awesome ideas.   If you do porn, you don't step onstage for two years, period.  Either gender.

You get arrested, you don't compete until it's resolved.

If you plead or are found guiilty, 2-4 years based upon charges.

[nycbull]

ok, it's not gay.  it's just effeminate.  which is a turn-off to many gays.

note to Kai:  fur is probably not the right outfit when gogo dancing at a leather bar

agree it is effeminate, so makes no sense why they do it, its not for the gays....

the only reason I can think they do it is because straight men see art, dance, performance as feminine, sensitive, open minded, so they are just showing their feminine side trying to prove to the women in the audience that they are the modern sensitive male with muscles.

THey are not doing it for the gays.

[@Brandon]

Let the "sport" die, no more BB shows.
Seeing a fat man "win" at the Olympia
is not even funny.

Only the g4p industry will stay alive on the
gay section in porn shops.

I stopped going to BB shows, buying any BB endorsed product,
Stopped buying BB mags since a few years back.
BB is sick and dying, Derek and Sammi is helping
to transform BB into something else.

Maybe the "sport" will be reborn in some other form
in the future.

[oldtimer1]

Has absolufuckinly nothing to do with any "downturn".

The general lack of interest, especially for the "freaky" look as people get smarter about the consequences/unmaintainability/unsustainability/drugs.

Local shows are dead amid some gay lurkers / freak crowd.

I could go on all night...

Your right about your assessment regarding your comments about drugs.  People in general are not impressed by steroid bodybuilders.  They in fact laugh at them. Steroids is the first thing they say when they see a bodybuilder.   They realize the physique only lasts as long as the drug cycle.  Four months off the juice the drug physique goes quickly.

Sadly, bodybuilding is in a serious decline. Subscriptions to the magazines are down and the once common local shows are almost non existent.  It seems the insecure teenagers and young men once drawn to bodybuilding are now being drawn to MMA training.  These new wave dojos are everywhere now.  I remember when there were three in the nation. One in NJ, NYC and California.  Now every strip mall has one.  Look at the magazine racks and you will find 6 magazines devoted to MMA.  I really find that devotion to the fighting sports are growing at an incredible rate. 

Bodybuilding is dying but fitness is stronger that it ever was.  One gym by me use to be a World gym.  It turned into a Oxygen gym and it is packed. Half of the clients are female.  I was doing squats in a power rack and this beyond hot girl was doing squats in the power rack next to me.  I would have never seen that 20 years ago.

[Benny B]

Does it affect your moods/makes you wanna think about another career path?

What does one of your gimmicks, SWEETMUSCLES, think about this? 

[Luv2Hurt]

agree it is effeminate, so makes no sense why they do it, its not for the gays....

the only reason I can think they do it is because straight men see art, dance, performance as feminine, sensitive, open minded, so they are just showing their feminine side trying to prove to the women in the audience that they are the modern sensitive male with muscles.THey are not doing it for the gays.

Huh??

They are not doing it for the women either, they do it for themselves.  This is the way BB competitions are run and that is the format. Does it need to be or could it be different maybe?  Its to see who has done the best job in the gym, at the table, in the womb and yes maybe in some cases at the pharmacy.

Since it is judging the body it cant be done in a football uniform.  Do some of the dudes make me look away with their goofy routines? Yes! it can be quite odd and creepy.

[Alex23]

Both awesome ideas.   If you do porn, you don't step on stage for two years, period.  Either gender.

You get arrested, you don't compete until it's resolved.

If you plead or are found guiilty, 2-4 years based upon charges.

THE STAGES WOULD BE EMPTY.

WHY NOT FORCE SUPPS, WEIDERS & CO TO LET THE MONEY FLOW TO WHO REALLY DESERVES IT, AKA THE ATHLETES?

NO FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, NO NEED TO G4P YOURSELF OR SUPPORT YOUR "HABITS" SELLING.


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