bodybuilding is a sport!!!!

[triple_pickle]

from the "designing strength training programs" e-book, link courtesy of dreadlord:

http://rapidshare.com/files/144570520/Mike_Boyle-_Designing_Strength_Training_Programs_and_Facilities.pdf.html

on applying the "bodybuilding method" to train athletes, p.176:

"This is an extremely inefficient method for athletes since bodybuilding, like powerlifting and Olympic lifting, is in fact a sport more than an actual training system."

ergo, bodybuilding is a sport but bodybuilders are not athletes

[emn1964]

just because someone wrote it in a book doesn't make it true.  i could write a book that steroids aren't used in pro bbing but it wouldn't make it true.  i could write that Goodrum and Getsome are hetero, but it wouldn't make it true.

[The Coach]

from the "designing strength training programs" e-book, link courtesy of dreadlord:

http://rapidshare.com/files/144570520/Mike_Boyle-_Designing_Strength_Training_Programs_and_Facilities.pdf.html

on applying the "bodybuilding method" to train athletes, p.176:

"This is an extremely inefficient method for athletes since bodybuilding, like powerlifting and Olympic lifting, is in fact a sport more than an actual training system."

ergo, bodybuilding is a sport but bodybuilders are not athletes

I love Mike and he a mentor.....but he's wrong.

[The Coach]

I'll pose this question on his site/boards right now and see the reaction I get.

[Meso_z]

I'll pose this question on his site/boards right now and see the reaction I get.

 

[emn1964]

One more--I could write that Coach is a liberal democrat, but that wouldn't make it true.

[brudge]

it is not a sport or a game and there are no athletes involved. It is judging of science experiments

[Bluto]

indeed it is, i just happend to miss all those times it was on the olympics

i hope for better luck in 2012

[emn1964]

it is not a sport or a game and there are no athletes involved. It is judging of science experiments

not even that sophisticated.  its a male beauty pageant.  HTHMF

[brudge]

not even that sophisticated.  its a male beauty pageant.  HTHMF

no its not. the men are all terrible looking freaks. I'm a enjoy bodybuilding...just saying it like it is.

[Harley Buckshot]

so, i guess everyone who goes to the gym is an athlete? Because the only diff is theirs a group who puts on thongs and oil down on stage.

[Oldschool Flip]

Bodybuilding isn't a sport since none of the workouts count towards any points or time winning records. It's not a game of any sort where competitors out score each other in the gym by the amount of sets they do or the weight they lift. The contests are the goal for amateurs and pros and then it's left up to a judge to decide whether or not they have a great physique. Beauty contests are the same way.

Now if they did one set of mandatory exercise (ie incline bench press) on stage then did a side chest pose right after hitting that set, then maybe it would be a sport.