Can ANYONE tell me something POSITIVE about Professional Bodybuilding?

[The True Adonis]

Drugs,Lies,Gay Porno,Women who look like men,Men who look like Apes,Women who ARE men. The whole Fucked up lifestyle. The low prize money?

What is so great about bodybuilding? Tell me?

[knny187]

What is so great about bodybuilding? Tell me?

You look cool.

Vanity brother....it's all about vanity.

[body88]

who the hell would want to look like 90percent of the guys out there now??

[bigdumbbell]

they wear the gayest thongs 

[Army of One]

The True Adonis, I completely agree, bodybuilding should be done for fitness, a lifestyle, obviously improving appearence too.The roid monkeys just throw a seedy stain over the whole thing.

[WiseGuy]

positive:

1.. uhh no
2. nope
3. not that either
4. sorry
5. negative ghost rider
6. no can do big guy...

this was me thinking to myself about the postive things...

so far I have a big donught

 

[GigantorX]

Another one of these "threads", well lets see....positives....uh, there are none. What you ask is a rhetorical question, plain and simple. And to that gentleman who said "why do you post on a bodybuilding website". What the hell does this site really have to do with Professional Bodybuilding? Gossip, Dorian is more grainy than Ronnie, huge guts and message board fueds. So, why are you posting on this forum guy?

[flexfan]

I don't think bb is the type of thing you are supposed to earn a living at. It is an extreme sport. Kinda like a religion for the top competitors. They are martyrs in a really perverted sense.

[phyxsius]

Positive:

- dumb people can make money (no 9-5 job)
- dead tongue people can make money too (Ronnie)
- die early
- their physique is bigger than average mofos
- you can have ego as high as Mt. Everest
- eat more
- can come and leave your "office" anytime

[JOHN MATRIX]

i know a great reason.
bbing led me to this board, and on this board, i was introduced to the sheer radiant brilliance that is Adonis, and my life was never the same after gazing upon a physique of such magnificance. it has become my lifetime goal to become a member of Team Adonis, and to someday own one of their t-shirts. 

[deeznutz]

Why are you on a bodybuilding site?

Exactly, if you don't like bodybuilding then leave this site.  Oh, I get it, deep down you like it or you wouldn't be here.  And, bodybuilding as a whole is good and a beneficial activity.  Think of all the personal trainers that make a living from the very activity you bad mouth.  Ya' know, there are people in bodybuilding that don't do all the above mentioned. 

deeznutz

[MikeThaMachine]

1. It inspires many fat ass' and others to lift and get in shape
2. Helps feed the families of the roid makers and sellers
3. It makes everyone involved but the athletes rich




4. The ifbb will never let adonis turn pro and compete on stage

[Loomis]

It beats having the average American body

[Double XL]

Positive:

- dead tongue people can make money too (Ronnie)

RONNIE WAS A POLICE OFFICER AND WOULD HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY FINE FINACIALLY WITHOUT BODYBUILDING.

[Shawn Ray]

You can dress up even when it's not Halloween...........

[MikeThaMachine]

You can dress up even when it's not Halloween...........

Didnt you dress up as that once for halloween

[Shawn Ray]

Doooooooooooooooooo

[MikeThaMachine]

I just took notice that S. Ray in the off season pic looks as good condionting wise as Tamali does in that outfit

[BuffD]

Drugs,Lies,Gay Porno,Women who look like men,Men who look like Apes,Women who ARE men. The whole Fucked up lifestyle.

What is so great about bodybuilding? Tell me?

Why do you care? 

[8 INCH not biceps]

 Being a pro is cool i lift for free i wish i could get paid to eat,shit, sleep and lift weights.

[pumpster]

Discounted bulk orders of roids and tanning products.

Excellent network of shady suppliers.

Justification for monosyllabism.

[mphgrove]

Here is a try at something POSITIVE.  Like many of the posts here, I am dismayed at the current direction of bodybuilding and the hell it's playing with many of the top competitors' lives.  I have a friend who is PRO.  I'm trying to convince him to take a break, get a regular job, make a regular living, and have the courage to be smaller (at least for a while).

Here's what's been positive in my own life.  It's the reverse of my friend's situation.  When I was in my 30s I competed for a while (locally, never amounted to much, never overdid it).  I felt great.  I looked great.  I was happy.  Ten years later, here I am coming off a stretch of life, where my work has been so stressful that I have given up going to the gym.  I'm exhausted and low.  Right now I am thinking about alternative strategies.  And if I decide to leave my job, I know the first place I will go is back to bodybuilding.  I want to to feel good again, eat right, look good, take time to enjoy.  As the Romans used to say, mens sane in corpore sane.  A healthy mind emanates from a healthy body.

Let's not forget about the positive healthy place bodybuilding came from and what it gives to thousands (millions) who practice the lifestyle in a sensible way every day.  Sure, I enjoy the physiques of the freaks.  Maybe at some level I am a hypocrite.  These men and women appeal to and inspire the rest of us, and sadly they make sacrifices in their own lives.

My prayer on this Christmas Day is for more BALANCE in bodybuilding.  The powers in the sport could play a role, but I don't have much confidence given the commercial nature of our society.  It really comes down to small choices that each of us can make in our lives every day.

Mike

[Richard2004]

Drugs,Lies,Gay Porno,Women who look like men,Men who look like Apes,Women who ARE men. The whole Fucked up lifestyle.

What is so great about bodybuilding? Tell me?

First of all, there exists an apparent never-ending confusion on the meaning/definition of the term “bodybuilding”!  Bodybuilding (BB) really should be defined as including all individuals who weight-train to improve their appearance, health, strength, and athletic ability.  Of course, using such a definition of BB would include several million practitioners, worldwide!

With the advent of the Weiders' mag. "propaganda", with their heavy commercialized mag. articles/ads/contest-reporting in recent decades, the term “bodybuilding” has been subverted to focus only on professional bodybuilding.  Of course, pro. BBers make up only a very SMALL fraction of the legions of millions of bodybuilding practitioners (hardly even 1%, I am sure)!

Like any discipline/lifestyle/“sport”/activity, you are always going to have a few miscreant practitioners who give every other clean-living, drug-free/natural, accomplished, good-citizen, law-abiding, bodybuilding practitioner a “black-eye” with their socially unacceptable behavior…e.g. illegal drug use/trafficking, burglaries, gang-activities, murder, etc.!!

Yet, despite… the blatant lies and drug-use cover-up, perpetuated by the bodybuilding mags.; the pro. BB male chemical monsters and “she-he’s” receiving heavy mag. publicity;  the ‘roid-rage psychos running loose in society-some even posting to Getbig; illegal drug dealers/users, murderers, other criminals, etc., who practice BB and receive sensational media/press… these serious negative aspects associated with BB are greatly overshadowed by the highly POSITIVE aspect of having millions of successful worldwide practitioners of BB (e.g. “recreational" BBers, like myself)!!

These millions of socially-responsible, “good-citizen”, estimable, recreational, BBers use BB as a regular tool to help live more productive, healthier, stronger, longer, lives, with a greatly improved relative physical appearance, generally speaking, when compared to the non-bodybuilding, non-exercising, general public.  In other words, using BB as a means to a worthwhile end(s0, and not just an end in itself!!   

[doison]

You get to have stalkers like Adonis obsessing over every aspect of your life. 

[24KT]

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   Ron Williams

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