Do your friends, family, kids know that you follow bodybuilding?

[Frank Clairmonte]

Are you open about your hobby with your fiends and family? How they react? What about your kids, how they see it?

I mean , it must be hard for average person to understand why a grown man would watch other men in thongs, follow random dudes on internet forum, visit contests etc.

How do people around you react?

I have to be honest that I dont share this a lot with my surroundings, peole just dont understand. Close family knows and thats it.

[Lustral]

Pretty much everyone I know knows but I'm not a schmoe about it, only thing I ever follow anymore is the O and I don't even stay up for the web cast.

Son is into wrestling and that has a lot of thong warriors, they just don't hitch it up the ass cheeks.

[Frank Clairmonte]

Post a pic of your marvelously fantastic out of this world physique.

I`ll wait.

  This thread is more about following the sport rather than bodybuilding yourself.

[Darren Avey]

"follow it?" What like ring my pals like after afootball match and go "hey did you see how Dexter did in the posedown V Dareem yeh it was awesome needs bring the calves out for the O though"

Er no

[Lustral]

"follow it?" What like ring my pals like after afootball match and go "hey did you see how Dexter did in the posedown V Dareem yeh it was awesome needs bring the calves out for the O though"

Er no

Follow for most of us involves being disparaging about most of the physiques for 11 months, getting excited by the prospect of someone breaking through (Wolf, Ramy, Rhoden) followed by a shitty showing in the contest by all bar Phil and maybe 1 random person, followed by "I knew it was going to be shit, fuck this sport".

[wes]

[Irongrip400]

What the fuck is bodybuilding?

[Rascal full]

It's real to me godammit....

[Andy Griffin]

I just don't share my post count on GetBig. 

It leads to awkward moments during family occasions when I mention having gone to Wal-Mart and hitting a lat spread that won't soon be forgotten.

[DroppingPlates]

Why would you hide your passion It's not your problem that people can't deal with it.

[the trainer]

They ask me if I am gay when they pass by the computer and see me looking at the weird pictures you guys put up and I always have to be defending myself.

[calfzilla]

When I was younger yes, now I keep it pretty much hidden. 

[DroppingPlates]

When I was younger yes, now I keep it pretty much hidden. 

Means belly fat?

[Mr Nobody]

I do not follow it.

[Papper]

Follow for most of us involves being disparaging about most of the physiques for 11 months, getting excited by the prospect of someone breaking through (Wolf, Ramy, Rhoden) followed by a shitty showing in the contest by all bar Phil and maybe 1 random person, followed by "I knew it was going to be shit, fuck this sport".

Spot on

[Griffith]

Yes, people know.

Would probably be a bit weird if I didn't look like I lifted weights though.

[SuperTed]

"follow it?" What like ring my pals like after afootball match and go "hey did you see how Dexter did in the posedown V Dareem yeh it was awesome needs bring the calves out for the O though"

Er no

 

[phreak]

Why would you hide your passion It's not your problem that people can't deal with it.

What if my passion is pederasty?

[DroppingPlates]

What if my passion is pederasty?

They might cut ties....


































...and your balls

[_aj_]

I don't follow bb because I am not gay...









Kidding! No, nobody knows, are you out of your mind? I would rather say I have a fat fetish; it's more socially acceptable.

[Rambone]

I don't follow bodybuilding, but I have a friend who's a real skinny kid and couldn't even make the football team because he's too skinny. Then he started to buy Muscle Magazine. He buys up all the old muscle books. He reads them for hours. Every morning, I find his light on, and he's reading the muscle books. We're starting to think he's a closet homosexual.

[Lustral]

BBing is unique to the extent that what you do on the day is a result of months of manipulation not what you do v other competitors. Most people don't get that, or that you can be straight and judge people by their physique in thongs.

[no one]

Are you open about your hobby with your fiends and family? How they react? What about your kids, how they see it?

I mean , it must be hard for average person to understand why a grown man would watch other men in thongs, follow random dudes on internet forum, visit contests etc.

How do people around you react?

I have to be honest that I dont share this a lot with my surroundings, peole just dont understand. Close family knows and thats it.

I don't follow bbing.

I couldn't tell you who finished second at the Olympia last year. nor do I care.

I go to the gym cause I love to train. I think bbing itself is a gayish pursuit full of insecure males desperate for the praise of other males.

and in that there is something very very weird.

I'm the bbing antithesis. I look like a bber. but anyone who knows me will tell you I'm the furthest thing from.


edit: there are exceptions to what I said. chiro and Wes come to mind. they are cool dudes who compete. very rare cause in my experience most hardcore bbers are insecure weirdos.

[falco]

They ask me if I am gay when they pass by the computer and see me looking at the weird pictures you guys put up and I always have to be defending myself.

Aren't they scared that you might be offended, you being 250 lbs with abs and all...

[MORTALCOIL]

If not for GB which I log on for other reasons than to get the freshest and most positive input about Bbing, I wouldn't even know Phil Heath exists.