Me and Bodybuilding, summed up briefly

[Howard]

Bodybuilding is like a girl I love, but can't stay married to or live with.

[oldtimer1]

I grew up as a kid where Joe Weider had his head quarters in Union city, NJ.  I would go there as a kid and walk away with free stacks of magazines. I guess I was hooked at a young age.  My wife's four brothers were into baseball, football, and basketball. Here I am lifting weights with magazines of oiled up men wearing tiny speedos. My wife later confessed she thought it was the most insane thing she ever saw was a bodybuilding magazine. You have to admit that many fans of bodybuilding sorry to say are low life bottom feeders. You can almost profile them. They usually use recreational drugs and don't have any serious careers in their life. The majority are progressive liberals who feel the government owes them with the money they take from worker's pay checks. At the same time I met many involved who are great guys.

I think bodybuilding is really dying but at the same time fitness is becoming huge. Guys are lifting and doing hard core cardio to look good and improve their health. Maybe bodybuilding is evolving in a positive direction. Men's Health sells more magazines than all bodybuilding magazines combined. Publishers of bodybuilding magazines are trying to cash in by making similar magazines like Men's Fitness that in my opinion is made to confuse the consumer that it's Men's Health. Men's Health has ads that feature top end cars and watches while bodybuilding magazines are still loaded with page after page of snake oils. 

[Knooger]

I just ordered beta alanine from Amazon.

[BigRo]

you live with the body you build night and day so theres no getting away from it! or maybe you mean oily men in thongs?

[Howard]

you live with the body you build night and day so theres no getting away from it! or maybe you mean oily men in thongs?

Competitive bodybuilding.

[BigRo]

sounds like you need to get back onstage!

[Howard]

I grew up as a kid where Joe Weider had his head quarters in Union city, NJ.  I would go there as a kid and walk away with free stacks of magazines. I guess I was hooked at a young age.  My wife's four brothers were into baseball, football, and basketball. Here I am lifting weights with magazines of oiled up men wearing tiny speedos. My wife later confessed she thought it was the most insane thing she ever saw was a bodybuilding magazine. You have to admit that many fans of bodybuilding sorry to say are low life bottom feeders. You can almost profile them. They usually use recreational drugs and don't have any serious careers in their life. The majority are progressive liberals who feel the government owes them with the money they take from worker's pay checks. At the same time I met many involved who are great guys.

I think bodybuilding is really dying but at the same time fitness is becoming huge. Guys are lifting and doing hard core cardio to look good and improve their health. Maybe bodybuilding is evolving in a positive direction. Men's Health sells more magazines than all bodybuilding magazines combined. Publishers of bodybuilding magazines are trying to cash in by making similar magazines like Men's Fitness that in my opinion is made to confuse the consumer that it's Men's Health. Men's Health has ads that feature top end cars and watches while bodybuilding magazines are still loaded with page after page of snake oils. 

Great post. I'll bet we read some of the same issues of the old Muscle Builder and Power.

I know hardcore bodybuilding is an off the wall sport with many dysfunctional characters involved in it.
It was an oddball activity, but at least it was OUR oddball thing.

Now the contests are majority bikini and MPD "swimsuit beauty pageants".
In my opinion, being fit and try to look better is a wonderful PERSONAL goal ,
BUT it's not meant to be a competitive event.

[Howard]

sounds like you need to get back onstage!

Yeah, right LOL, I need to get back on stage like I need to get remarried to one of my ex-wives.

[BigRo]

but you love it, you said so yourself!

[TheShape.]

I knew this was gonna be another Howard thread...

[Howard]

I knew this was gonna be another Howard thread...

Now, I really feel like crap, hope that helps.

Ya know, I feel a bit guilty and ashamed to  admit I've been losing interest in bodybuilding. 100% serious.
 Hmmm, weird huh?

[WalterWhite]

Now, I really feel like crap, hope that helps.

Ya know, I feel a bit guilty and ashamed to  admit I've been losing interest in bodybuilding. 100% serious.
 Hmmm, weird huh?

Howard I certainly left powerlifting on a high note, however, never missed trying to push 500 plus off my chest after a pause etc. Even though I left the platform I never stopped training and trying different approaches as I've aged.

You don't need to love bodybuilding to enjoy the gym and working out to stay fit.

[TheShape.]

Now, I really feel like crap, hope that helps.

Ya know, I feel a bit guilty and ashamed to  admit I've been losing interest in bodybuilding. 100% serious.
 Hmmm, weird huh?

Don't be guilty. It's really not that great now. The only good physiques are the ones that don't exist anymore.

[Radical Plato]

you live with the body you build night and day so theres no getting away from it! or maybe you mean oily men in thongs?

Unless you borrowed your body from some synthetic hormones, then you live with a body that's not quite your own and on borrowed time.

[ritch]

the fact you lost interest to follow bb'ing is not as worrysome as the fact you don't seem to care to wanna get back in shape.

I keep forgetting if you're on HRT on not Howard but seems to me any man past 35 should be on it if he wants to train hard.

If summer being around the corner is not motivation, then hard to say what will get you into gear. If you can't pull it together now, it will only be harder next year.

Don't let yourself go there....

Maybe PM Goodrum for a box of supplements like he has to give you an edge?

[njflex]

one day soon maybe howie will make a similar thread with a pic that shows him in the shape that makes him start these threads...

[Walter Sobchak]

Bodybuilding is like a girl I love, but can't stay married to or live with.

Howard, stop marrying women to try to hide the fact you a homo.

[BigRo]

Unless you borrowed your body from some synthetic hormones, then you live with a body that's not quite your own and on borrowed time.

every-body is on borrowed time, just because your natural does not mean you body is eternal, what can you call your own really?

[Primemuscle]

I grew up as a kid where Joe Weider had his head quarters in Union city, NJ.  I would go there as a kid and walk away with free stacks of magazines. I guess I was hooked at a young age.  My wife's four brothers were into baseball, football, and basketball. Here I am lifting weights with magazines of oiled up men wearing tiny speedos. My wife later confessed she thought it was the most insane thing she ever saw was a bodybuilding magazine. You have to admit that many fans of bodybuilding sorry to say are low life bottom feeders. You can almost profile them. They usually use recreational drugs and don't have any serious careers in their life. The majority are progressive liberals who feel the government owes them with the money they take from worker's pay checks. At the same time I met many involved who are great guys.

I think bodybuilding is really dying but at the same time fitness is becoming huge. Guys are lifting and doing hard core cardio to look good and improve their health. Maybe bodybuilding is evolving in a positive direction. Men's Health sells more magazines than all bodybuilding magazines combined. Publishers of bodybuilding magazines are trying to cash in by making similar magazines like Men's Fitness that in my opinion is made to confuse the consumer that it's Men's Health. Men's Health has ads that feature top end cars and watches while bodybuilding magazines are still loaded with page after page of snake oils. 

Granted, I tend to take the Pollyanna view of things, but I don't see where bodybuilders are a bunch of low life bottom feeders. The folks I know who are into bodybuilding today have successful lives of which bodybuilding is just one part. As for recreational drugs, perhaps this is more prevalent among folks of a certain age who are into bodybuilding. I don't believe this is true of all bodybuilders. Keep in mind that many people in their late teens and twenties experiment with recreational drugs. Furthermore, taking recreational drugs is counter productive if you are a serious bodybuilder.

[Howard]

Howard I certainly left powerlifting on a high note, however, never missed trying to push 500 plus off my chest after a pause etc. Even though I left the platform I never stopped training and trying different approaches as I've aged.

You don't need to love bodybuilding to enjoy the gym and working out to stay fit.

Thanks. You are absolutely correct about this.
I suck as a runner, but I'm really enjoying the new challenges from it and cardio fitness goals.

[Howard]

one day soon maybe howie will make a similar thread with a pic that shows him in the shape that makes him start these threads...

That idea is as played out as the quick upskirt "vajajay flash" of some female celeb as she exits the car seat.

[Howard]

Granted, I tend to take the Pollyanna view of things, but I don't see where bodybuilders are a bunch of low life bottom feeders. The folks I know who are into bodybuilding today have successful lives of which bodybuilding is just one part. As for recreational drugs, perhaps this is more prevalent among folks of a certain age who are into bodybuilding. I don't believe this is true of all bodybuilders. Keep in mind that many people in their late teens and twenties experiment with recreational drugs. Furthermore, taking recreational drugs is counter productive if you are a serious bodybuilder.

Good post.

The ironic thing is most Mr Olympia champs, live functional lives before/during/after competing .
For example, Arnold was a huge success OFF the stage after he hung up his trunks.
Jay may not be a party animal , but he leads a decent, wholesome life.
Lee Haney left bodybuilding young and runs a farm  home for troubled teens.

Bodybuilding originated as  a wholesome, healthy lifestyle called "physical culture".
That's what I always personally got into  despite the evolution to the drug induced freak show.
I may never compete on stage again, BUT, I will always train as a bodybuilder.