I think it's pretty clear that bodybuilders are nothing more than male beauty pageant contestants...
Yes they have to train hard, extreme diet, take massive amounts of drugs and such, and perhaps one could argue that they have to train harder and diet cleaner than a professional athlete like a football player… but saying that bodybuilding is a SPORT, is pretty silly and I disagree that it is.
I think an athlete is someone that plays a sport… and since I do not think that bodybuilding is a SPORT, I therefore do not think being a bodybuilder makes you an athlete.
So, are you an athlete because you lift weights? Depends who you talk to I guess… I find semantic debates like this pretty silly… but that’s my 2 cents.
-A DUB