Absolutely, wreaks of schmoe! Would never dream of showing up at any contest , looking like I never touched a weight in my life! Thats just me!
It is one thing to attend a bodybuilding contest when you are not in shape. It is another thing to faun over the contestants in the way that the "mayor of building" appears to. If he is looking for inspiration, he's not finding it.
I only attended one competition in my life. It was when I was a really skinny 16 year old and my parent's friend and bodybuilder took me to one in L.A. to hopefully inspire me to do something positive about my skinny self. He was right on; it was inspirational. I have worked out ever since. -Never achieved competition condition but sure as hell made big physical improvements over the years. Weight training, to coin a phrase, became part of my lifestyle.