If you were a PRO

[medz zeppelin]

There is no skill involved in bodybuilding, its a genetics and drug game. Atleast golf takes the development of talent.

is flexing and prancing around looking like a homo a talent?

[Lundgren]

Yup......BTW, this gimmick started this threat to bait me.

Dude your borderline autistic, you have no understanding of politics yet you insist Im a gimmick. When my Ip will show I from the Canada. To say this is a sport is a joke, its a contest. But I digress you can call men in thongs whatever you want, there just words everyone in the realing world knows what its about when they see photos.

[Devon97]

if we live in a world where tiger woods is called an athlete, and golf is called a "sport"


bodybuilders are certainly athletes

Wrong.

In order to be a sport the activity must be PERFORMANCE based, not aesthetically based.

bbing is a contest not a sport and the lugs that compete can hardly even make it out on stage, they are anything but athletes.

Just like a swimsuit contest or beauty pageant.

[Pollux]

If you were a bb pro would you refer to yourself as an athlete? I would prob. specify and say bodybuilder.

So you'd rather be laughed at? 

[Coach is Back!]

Dude your borderline autistic, you have no understanding of politics yet you insist Im a gimmick. When my Ip will show I from the Canada. To say this is a sport is a joke, its a contest. But I digress you can call men in thongs whatever you want, there just words everyone in the realing world knows what its about when they see photos.

WTF are you talking about?? You didn't start this thread. You're in school..seriously? How the fuck did you get into a college with your lack of comprehension? I was AGREEING with you.....but now....well.......fuck you!

[Lundgren]

Yup......BTW, this gimmick started this threat to bait me.

[Coach is Back!]

I meant to write threaD. Regardless, I was referring to the THREAD STARTER as a gimmick. How fucking hard is that to understand?

[Lundgren]

I meant to write threaD. Regardless, I was referring to the THREAD STARTER as a gimmick. How fucking hard is that to understand?

I know but I think its comical how you think your opinions on anything matter.

[Stavios]

I am a competitive bodybuilder and I don't see myself as an athlete in any shape or form.

I suck at every sport anyway

[The Showstoppa]

Are racecar drivers and jockeys athletes?

[Pollux]

Are racecar drivers and jockeys athletes?

They're quicker to be considered athletes before bodybuilders. 

[The Showstoppa]

They're quicker to be considered athletes before bodybuilders. 

I agree 100%.

[dov]

I meant to write threaD. Regardless, I was referring to the THREAD STARTER as a gimmick. How fucking hard is that to understand?

gotta agree with "Lundgrngisod"...........you're accusing someone of "lack of comprehension"? Oh brother

[Lundgren]

gotta agree with "Lundgrngisod"...........you're accusing someone of "lack of comprehension"? Oh brother

Hes easier to set off than a vet in china town.

[Coach is Back!]

I know but I think its comical how you think your opinions on anything matter.

As if a 21 year old college kid who admits he doesn't pay his bills. bitches he can't put on muscle and is a closet lib has a say so in anything....now he thinks he knows anything about bodybuilding...hahahahah aha!

[Earl1972]

yes i would refer to myself as an athlete because they are athletes and bodybuilding is a sport

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[Lundgren]

As if a 21 year old college kid who admits he doesn't pay his bills. bitches he can't put on muscle and is a closet lib has a say so in anything....now he thinks he knows anything about bodybuilding...hahahahah aha!

No I bitched that I will never be famous  or important, getting in a thong aint gonna make you something. Note the Olympia comment was put in by mods. I aint no liberal either, I just anti wack job cough cough you. I dont know much about men in thongs ill admit maybe if I had a mentor or a coach Id be a bonerfide expert.

[myt1]

if we live in a world where tiger woods is called an athlete, and golf is called a "sport"


bodybuilders are certainly athletes

Thread should've ended right here

[Captain Equipoise]

In my reviews, I try to refer to the competitors as "bodybuilders" and bodybuilding itself as "the bodybuilding industry".  I just think that philosophically, a sport is an event where points can be scored in an objective way.  No matter how you cut it, bodybuilding is subjective.  Some things are "subjectively objective", i.e., the colour spectrum for example.  But even though what distinguishes red from auburn from brown is subjective, once established, placement in that group is NOT subjective.  For example, if we subjectively decide that six feet is "tall" you are then either "tall" or "not tall" based on that definition, and we can extend the definition further.  So although the initial categorization is subjective, placement in or out of that category after they are established is not.

But how points are scored in bodybuilding is neither objective or subjectively objective - It is simply a subjective matter.  Granted, I would not win the Mr. Olympia so presumably there is some degree of objectivity, but it is still subjective overall.  Of course using this definition of a "sport", we would have to call ping pong a sport, so it would leave something to be desired.

Excellent post, agreed completely.. bodybuilding is no more a sport then the miss america or miss universe pageants are.