Bodybuilding is not a sport.

[G o a t b o y]

Still not a sport.

Agreed.  Definitely not a sport.

[DeltsaForce]

pole dancing is a sport. the women train on the pole for many hours.

[Chick]

Bottom line, you're being judged on how you look, not what you do.  The winner is the one with the best looking body, period.  That makes it a pageant, not a sport.

Bottom line is, what you "do" dictates what you look like and (ultimately) what youre judged on...this is what makes BB a unique sport, as it's the only one with these credentials...if all you had to do WAS put on a thong/ oil and stand there on stage...then it WOULD be a pageant.

[chaos]

pole dancing is a sport. the women train on the pole for many hours.

Yes, definately, I can appreciate the time and effort they put in to craft their sport.

[body88]

Bottom line is, what you "do" dictates what you look like and (ultimately) what youre judged on...this is what makes BB a unique sport, as it's the only one with these credentials...if all you had to do WAS put on a thong/ oil and stand there on stage...then it WOULD be a pageant.

So now your saying that all that beauty pageant contestants have to do is toss on a bathing suit and compete? pretty sure Miss America would frown on that one. Again, beauty contestants train and diet for contests.

[G o a t b o y]

So we're all agreed....  strutting around a stage oiled up and wearing a thong "flexing" for a bunch of old men is NOT A SPORT.   

[Soundness]

So we're all agreed....  strutting around a stage oiled up and wearing a thong "flexing" for a bunch of old men is NOT A SPORT.   

Yes, we all agree it's not a sport but rather a pageant, even Chick.

He's just not in the position in which he can admit it. He has to defend it as a sport, even if he knows better.

[Earl1972]

yes it is a sport

E

[G o a t b o y]

yes it is NOT a sport, it is a gay beauty pageant.

E

Glad to see you've finally seen the light, Earl.  I'd hate for this to turn into another "Ronnie vs Dorian" thing.

[drkaje]

Bottom line is, what you "do" dictates what you look like and (ultimately) what youre judged on...this is what makes BB a unique sport, as it's the only one with these credentials...if all you had to do WAS put on a thong/ oil and stand there on stage...then it WOULD be a pageant.

Unique because exercise, diet and drugs determine how people look on stage but there's very little athleticism to posing.

Still not a sport.

[liquid_c]

I find it funny people think it's noting but getting up in a thong dancing for me yada yada yada, not a sport, all bodybuilders are gay etc..... Yet the spend a ton of time posting on a board that is pretty much 90% about bodybuilding.  Makes you wonder.

[drkaje]

I find it funny people think it's noting but getting up in a thong dancing for me yada yada yada, not a sport, all bodybuilders are gay etc..... Yet the spend a ton of time posting on a board that is pretty much 90% about bodybuilding.  Makes you wonder.

Nothing wrong with working out and living a fit lifestyle.

Bodybuilding itself isn't gay, just many of its fans.

It's not a sport either. Actual athletes generally make money and being in 'condition' has to do with performance not looks.

[gordiano]

Nothing wrong with working out and living a fit lifestyle.

Bodybuilding itself isn't gay, just many of its fans.

It's not a sport either. Actual athletes generally make money and being in 'condition' has to do with performance not looks.

Absolutely right. However, comp. bbing is gay. Since when is injecting drugs (so you can get bigger/harder for the crowd), tanning, oiling up and dancing to music and posing for a crowd made up of 90%+ male audience, not gay? 

The denial is this thread is beyond me. Folks, I'd hate to see you ever have to admit you're wrong, if your life depended on it. You couldn't do it.

[chaos]

Still not a sport.

[gordiano]

Still not a sport.

Never will be.


And no wet pillows from schmoes and IFBB pros alike will change that.......

[drkaje]

Absolutely right. However, comp. bbing is gay. Since when is injecting drugs (so you can get bigger/harder for the crowd), tanning, oiling up and dancing to music and posing for a crowd made up of 90%+ male audience, not gay? 

The denial is this thread is beyond me. Folks, I'd hate to see you ever have to admit you're wrong, if your life depended on it. You couldn't do it.

By bodybuilding I mean trying to improve oneself physically. You generally feel/look better with regular exercise and proper dieting. Being in shape also makes it easier to meet women.

Comps require a lot of mental toughness but in the end probably are a waste of time for people without an inherent genetic advantage.

[chaos]

Sunday morning "Not a sport" post.

[G o a t b o y]

By bodybuilding I mean trying to improve oneself physically. You generally feel/look better with regular exercise and proper dieting. Being in shape also makes it easier to meet women.

No one has a problem with "bodybuilding" in the way you just described.  We all do that.


The issue here is oiled men in thongs, something that is definitely NOT A SPORT.

[Man of Steel]

definitely not a sport

[Man of Steel]

epic sport...done and done

[JasonH]

Bodybuilding =

1. Underground subculture (due to it's unpopularity amongst the mainstream)

2. With sporting elements (training in the gym for performance)

3. And scientific elements (nutritional know-how)

4. And pageant elements (standing being judges onstage in a subjective manner and having to pose)

5. And performance art elements (free posing round)

[The Coach]

yes it is a sport

E

NOT IT'S NOT!

[Laura Lee]

Here, hopefully, you can educate yourself




pag⋅eant   /ˈpædʒənt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation  [paj-uhnt] Show IPA Pronunciation  

–noun 1. an elaborate public spectacle illustrative of the history of a place, institution, or the like, often given in dramatic form or as a procession of colorful floats.
2. a costumed procession, masque, allegorical tableau, or the like forming part of public or social festivities.
3. a show or exhibition, esp. one consisting of a succession of participants or events: a beauty pageant.  

Origin:
1350–1400; ME pagyn, pagaunt, pagand < AL pāgina a stage for plays, scene, platform, perh. special use of L pāgina page 1






sport   /spɔrt, spoʊrt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation  [spawrt, spohrt] Show IPA Pronunciation  

–noun 1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.

Yeah!     How is fishing a sport?  You throw a line in the water and wait for a fish to bite.  And golf?  You hit a ball with a club and ride a cart to find it and hit it again...until it finally falls into a hole.  Olypmic "sports":  Syncronized swimming (people making shapes in the water), Equestrian (a person rides a horse and the horse does tricks), Bobsleigh (4 or 2 people in a closed sled going down an icey track), Luge (1 or 2 person in an open type sled), Skeleton (1 person head first in a sled, sliding down icey track) and Shooting (a gun...now there's a sport...ready, aim, fire.  Which brings up Hunting...that's a sport?  Hide in a tree and wait for an animal to come along and shoot at it?).

[mass 04]

Yeah!     How is fishing a sport?  You throw a line in the water and wait for a fish to bite.  And golf?  You hit a ball with a club and ride a cart to find it and hit it again...until it finally falls into a hole.  Olypmic "sports":  Syncronized swimming (people making shapes in the water), Equestrian (a person rides a horse and the horse does tricks), Bobsleigh (4 or 2 people in a closed sled going down an icey track), Luge (1 or 2 person in an open type sled), Skeleton (1 person head first in a sled, sliding down icey track) and Shooting (a gun...now there's a sport...ready, aim, fire.  Which brings up Hunting...that's a sport?  Hide in a tree and wait for an animal to come along and shoot at it?).

That's wht i'm saying. The term"sport" is so broad, that it can be applied to most physical activities.

[Soundness]

Yeah!     How is fishing a sport?  You throw a line in the water and wait for a fish to bite.  And golf?  You hit a ball with a club and ride a cart to find it and hit it again...until it finally falls into a hole.  Olypmic "sports":  Syncronized swimming (people making shapes in the water), Equestrian (a person rides a horse and the horse does tricks), Bobsleigh (4 or 2 people in a closed sled going down an icey track), Luge (1 or 2 person in an open type sled), Skeleton (1 person head first in a sled, sliding down icey track) and Shooting (a gun...now there's a sport...ready, aim, fire.  Which brings up Hunting...that's a sport?  Hide in a tree and wait for an animal to come along and shoot at it?).

Those are sports because winning in them depends on the performance of a physical skill.

Fishing requires precise technique; if you just throw the line in and wait for a fish to bite you won't get anywhere in competition (the "sport"). Golf definately requires physical technique as well. You know how horrible we all are when we start. The other sports you named also require considerable levels of physical skill as well, and winning in them is based on competition of the degree of that skill. So, they are "sports." 

Winning in bodybuilding, on the other hand, depends about 80% on your build (how you look), only about 20% on the skill (posing). Therefore, it is not a sport and is instead a form of a beauty pageant, the aesthetics of the body being the "beauty" part.