Right on the money as usual, Block. I respect the hell out of these guys who undertake bodybuilding full-time; I could never shelve my personal life and give up a professional career in the name of getting huge. These guys don't (or choose not to) have foresight to realize they probably aren't going to make much money out of bodybuilding in the long run. They are wasting their best income-earning years trying to build up their bodies. Most guys who do actually have the ability to make good money in pro BBing squander it anyway. Jay Cutler is the one guy who really seems to understand how to maximize bodybuilding financially. He's always guest posing, making appearances, putting out a million training DVDs, getting new sponsorships, etc.
There's only one Arnold, and he left bodybuilding almost 30 years ago. Arnold made bodybuilding work for him; most bodybuilders today seem to be working for almost nothing.
You're spot on as well.
I don't count G4P and drug dealing as the way to make a living being a bodybuilder. I would even respect the top level bodybuilders if they worked even part-time in the 20-25hr/week range. That would be something at least. The could still eat, sleep and train as they could and still have a trickle of income comming in. Most of them aren't smart enough or they are just too lazy to market and promote themselves.
Take Mike Liberatore. Smart guy. Has a job. Just turned pro. Now he is focusing on getting as many guest-posing(s) as he can and putting himself out there as a contest-prep consultant to many of the local amateurs in the Chicagoland scene and charging them accordingly.
Most pro's don't even do that. Majority of them trick themselves, hustle fag got s, sling pills and mooch of dumb naive women to get keep them in a positive nitrogen balance throughout the day and whatever their gym dues cost.
- Block!
