To get the girls at 6 ft, all that mattered was 190 lbs fairly conditioned. You'll do more damage then a pro. To be able to defend yourself, learn MMA. You want to get rich, focus on that. To be a pro really doesn't make any sense to me. WHat function does it serve? Living life out of a syringe, eating all the time? Nobody really cares about bodybuilding pros. They are thought of as circus acts these days. They just look like bloated waterbags except before a contest.
Being a successful pro isn't such a horrible life if you like working out. Look at Jay and Ronnie. They easily made over $200,00 just from posing on stage alone not counting the sponsorship.
You don't have to punch a clock and your day to day life is scheduled at your convenience. You can sleep in whenever you want or need to. I watched part of one of Jay's DVD series (it was the one where to lost to Ronnie for the last time). He just got done training one body part and said that now it was off to eat (one of I don't know how many meals) then tan, take a nap, eat again, spend some time on the computer answer email and run his business and then back to the gym to train another body part then eat, relax, eat again and then sleep.
Never a week goes by where I don't have to skip a meal and have to have a shake simply because I don't have the time. I just have the regular breakfast, lunch and dinner, with one more meal, my largest because I have more time, just before I go to sleep. How many here really have the time to sit down and eat 5-6 times a day "like you're suppose to"?
And imagine how less stressful you life would be, how better you would feel, how healthier you would be if everyday you got to spend a couple of hours to take a nap? And can you really consistently train effectively after a hard's day work? Or if you train before work then having to drag your ass out of bed at some ungodly hour drinking your breakfast to save time and try to crawl under a squat rack.
Think of all the things you have to do and cut back on just because you don't have the time? Just making your schedule at your own convenience and having a lot of free time is a luxury few of us have. Once Ronnie got out of the police dept. I think he went to bed at around 3:00 am and got up at noon which is probably what I would do as I'm much more of a night owl. I can't get to sleep until late but still have to crawl out of bed early moaning and bitching because I have to get to work or gym.
At $200,000+/yr I'd love to have the schedule and life style of a top pro bodybuilder minus all the drugs. Just for the afternoon nap alone.
