Are bodybuilders "athletes"?

[Chick]

how would you know?

[Army of One]

how would you know?

Its called having a brain and using the power of deduction and observation.

[Devon97]

You could attribute this quote to just about anything...

Theoretically, you could make a NFL team without ever playing a down assuming you had good enough genes and poor enough competition...

makes no sense...

If you never played a down then you wouldn't have ever faced any competition....

Bob, I think you're a cool guy but please never EVER speak with any authority on NFL or football for that matter ever again.

[beefcakeblake]

Bodybuilders are usually guys who sucked at other sports and like to claim bbing is a sport so they dont feel so inadequate

why do people sign on to a bb website then bash the sport and its athletes, like bob chick( some one i idolize for his ability to make good buck off of fitness industry) (no suckup)

all the people that bash the sport and bbs should just fuck off, you make your selfs look like idiots.

[MindSpin]

Most bodybuilders I know, and I know a lot, are guys who have major insecurity issues and end up juicing up to feel better about themselves.  The sad part is, that being a bodybuilder doesn't make them athletes, doesn't get them more girls, doesn't provide any sort of financial security.  All it really does is ruin their health and make them a criminal.  

[Chick]

makes no sense...

If you never played a down then you wouldn't have ever faced any competition....

Bob, I think you're a cool guy but please never EVER speak with any authority on NFL or football for that matter ever again.

Makes as much sense as what he wrote...

Anyone can "walk on" to a team...given what he wrote, if you have enough skill, you'll make the team, right?

btw...football was used as an example...feel free to substitute whatever else you wish, didnt know you would take it so personally

[Nirvana]

Most bodybuilders I know, and I know a lot, are guys who have major insecurity issues and end up juicing up to feel better about themselves.  The sad part is, that being a bodybuilder doesn't make them athletes, doesn't get them more girls, doesn't provide any sort of financial security.  All it really does is ruin their health and make them a criminal.  

example: Gregg Valvelino, people like Ronnie seem like good inspiration though.

Nasser love him or hate him, has some good discussion about bodybuilders as well

[Earl1972]

Nope.  Theoretically you could win a bodybuilding contest without ever touching a weight assuming you had good enough genes and or poor enough competition. 

LOL worst post ever

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[Flexb]

No, but I'd consider golfing a sport. It takes technique and precision coupled with immense focus. Doesn't take speed or endurance but it does take a concentrated power to drive the balls the way the pro's do

[geneticmarvel]

The true competition in bodybuilding takes place in the gym not oiled up posing in a thong.  Having said that it's really sad to see a bodybuilder who can't run down a block without getting winded.

 In the old times when the AAU Mr. America was the top amateur title they had to do Olympic lifting for athletic points.  Imagine our present competitors trying to get a good total in the clean and snatch the day of the contest?  They would be lucky if  they could lift 225lbs over their head. 

Yes, lifting weights does take a certain amount of coordination and balance. And I really admire how the old school guys were all about being strong and healthy as well as looking good.

[noworries]

Bodybuilding is more like a pagent (Miss America etc.) than an athletic competition.  There really isn't any difference between Miss America or Miss Universe and a bodybuilding contest.  The idea is to make yourself look the best up on stage.  Any prep work doesn't count.  You take the months or years of training and hopefully step on stage at your best and win.  Nothing more and nothing less. 

Sports like golf, tennis, any of the big team sports are true sports because they make you exhibit your skills and months or years of practice on a stage against others.  Golf is a sport.  It is physically challeging because you have to walk several miles while having to concentrate on a ball just over a few inches in size and make it go in a hole several hundred yards away.  Tons of skill, concentration and even mental stress comes with golf.

A bodybuilding contest is something that brings a competitor on stage to show off what diet, training and drugs can do to enhance the body you were born with.  Add some false color, implants, site injections, oil and you have an event all of its own.  It is almost impossible to call bodybuilding a "real" sport.  But some still try.  A perfect example is how many times has ESPN covered a BB show.  How many times does a local sports show cover a BB show.  They may have a one minute mention and thats it.  Has Mr Olympia ever been featured in Sports Illustrated and if so how many time once twice maybe.  So even mainstream media does not recognize it as a sport

[Lion666]

so when two people are playing cards, they are engaged in a sport?

yes
so is business.
unless we are all going to go along with what we think "mainstream" media/society would allow as an acceptable answer.  
but if we go with the definition of the term "sport" and not have any pre-conceived notion, many things would really be a sport.

typical getbig, a bb'n site and a bunch of people that barely train serious knocking the very sport this site is based on... hahaha lol
anyone thats ever competed knows is a challange to display your strengths & hide your flaws in a manner that will expose your opponents flaws and diminish his strengths.  of course to people disgruntled with their own training gains and/or never competed wouldnt agree to this.
also, knowing your competition and training yourself to be able to beat him but its just a male beauty pagent to fanboy schmoes.

as far as the judges all having different winners, well in a very close contest maybe but they all have some standard guidelines to go off of, size shape sym def etc...  have 1 person be far beyond everyone else onstage and that would be the winner, no matter what people think about politics.

this topic is old and played...  again, people that knock the sport the board is based on yet are on it everyday making thousands of posts... theres a word for those kinds of "people"  

[Lion666]

LOL worst post ever

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hahaha x2 earl
thats why everyone is walking around looking like jay cutler because its so easy they just take roids and bang, mr o material...
those guys that have been lifting and saucing for 20 plus years to get anywhere are just trying too hard, lol
 

[Lion666]

Bodybuilding is more like a pagent (Miss America etc.) than an athletic competition.  There really isn't any difference between Miss America or Miss Universe and a bodybuilding contest.  The idea is to make yourself look the best up on stage.  Any prep work doesn't count.  You take the months or years of training and hopefully step on stage at your best and win.  Nothing more and nothing less. 

Sports like golf, tennis, any of the big team sports are true sports because they make you exhibit your skills and months or years of practice on a stage against others.  Golf is a sport.  It is physically challeging because you have to walk several miles while having to concentrate on a ball just over a few inches in size and make it go in a hole several hundred yards away.  Tons of skill, concentration and even mental stress comes with golf.

A bodybuilding contest is something that brings a competitor on stage to show off what diet, training and drugs can do to enhance the body you were born with.  Add some false color, implants, site injections, oil and you have an event all of its own.  It is almost impossible to call bodybuilding a "real" sport.  But some still try.  A perfect example is how many times has ESPN covered a BB show.  How many times does a local sports show cover a BB show.  They may have a one minute mention and thats it.  Has Mr Olympia ever been featured in Sports Illustrated and if so how many time once twice maybe.  So even mainstream media does not recognize it as a sport

surprised at you keith
 

[che]

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.  Golf   It is physically challeging because you have to walk several miles ,

Walking is not physically challenging unless your legs are paralyzed or you weight more than 500lbs.

[pellius]

Bodybuilding is more like a pagent (Miss America etc.) than an athletic competition.  There really isn't any difference between Miss America or Miss Universe and a bodybuilding contest.  The idea is to make yourself look the best up on stage.  Any prep work doesn't count.  You take the months or years of training and hopefully step on stage at your best and win.  Nothing more and nothing less. 

Sports like golf, tennis, any of the big team sports are true sports because they make you exhibit your skills and months or years of practice on a stage against others.  Golf is a sport.  It is physically challeging because you have to walk several miles while having to concentrate on a ball just over a few inches in size and make it go in a hole several hundred yards away.  Tons of skill, concentration and even mental stress comes with golf.

A bodybuilding contest is something that brings a competitor on stage to show off what diet, training and drugs can do to enhance the body you were born with.  Add some false color, implants, site injections, oil and you have an event all of its own.  It is almost impossible to call bodybuilding a "real" sport.  But some still try.  A perfect example is how many times has ESPN covered a BB show.  How many times does a local sports show cover a BB show.  They may have a one minute mention and thats it.  Has Mr Olympia ever been featured in Sports Illustrated and if so how many time once twice maybe.  So even mainstream media does not recognize it as a sport

This says it all right here. Excellent post.

[io856]

Most bodybuilders I know, and I know a lot, are guys who have major insecurity issues and end up juicing up to feel better about themselves.  The sad part is, that being a bodybuilder doesn't make them athletes, doesn't get them more girls, doesn't provide any sort of financial security.  All it really does is ruin their health and make them a criminal.  

hahahahaha

 

[David M]

no there not

[body88]

how would you know?

Chick,

So you are a pro athlete just like Lebron James, Tom Brady and Adrian Petterson?

[Earl1972]

mainstream media does recognize bodybuilding as a sport, all major newspapers do

as for espn, why would they talk about or show bodybuilding when nobody other than us cares about it?  why do some of you conveniently "forget" how small of a niche this is?

espn is a business, they sell whatever gets ratings

that is why they focus on the nfl all year and hardly talk about sports like hockey, the nfl is the biggest sport in the US

i've gone over this before but some of you refuse to listen, keep trashing your favorite sport, the sport that gave you a life (getbig)

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[body88]

mainstream media does recognize bodybuilding as a sport, all major newspapers do

as for espn, why would they talk about or show bodybuilding when nobody other than us cares about it?  why do some of you conveniently "forget" how small of a niche this is?

espn is a business, they sell whatever gets ratings

that is why they focus on the nfl all year and hardly talk about sports like hockey, the nfl is the biggest sport in the US

i've gone over this before but some of you refuse to listen, keep trashing your favorite sport, the sport that gave you a life (getbig)

E

Most of this post is true.

We agree on a lot my friend, but on this one you are dead wrong. BB = not sport.

[Earl1972]

Chick,

So you are a pro athlete just like Lebron James, Tom Brady and Adrian Petterson?

is john daly?

finally somebody that actually watches sports (other than bodybuilding) has joined the argument

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[Coach is Back!]

 

[Earl1972]

Most of this post is true.

We agree on a lot my friend, but on this one you are dead wrong. BB = not sport.

bodybuilding fits the dictionary definition of the word "sport"

bodybuilding = sport

the favorite sport of everybody (besides the 10 people that actually use the sports forum) on getbig

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[che]

How many golfers can do this ?