worth it? to get admiration from a duck pond of people that and into lifting and pinning themselves? lol...
get your priorities in life straight ffs...
99% of all people dont see the difference between a 250 kg deadlift and a 400 kg deadlift. it's all just "alot of weight" to them... and 99% of those that do know do not care that much anyways
Nothing in this world is worth it, we will all die soon. Eddie Hall thought it was amazing that Arnold was looking at him, apparently a big thing to him. For myself, I wouldn't give a shit about Arnold or what he thought of me. My point is that I'm not judging them or feel sorry for them because we all do all manner of stupid and useless shit all day long. They know it's dangerous and may regret it later on anyway but that's true also for the rest of us and the stupid things we all do.
I presume VanB meant "worth it [to Andy]". Intrinsic motivation is what drives these guys, I don't think any of them do what they do in the hopes of obtaining fame & money.
Yes. It's the same with bodybuilding and all the guys here crying about how it's stupid when there's no money in it. It was never about money, not mainly, not even for the few pros making a little money. And here's the thing: even if bb paid a ton of money what are you going to do with the money when you're dead due to the bodybuilding lifestyle?!
IMO it's about a feeling of control over some aspect of life, transcending something, going
somewhere.
There are a few people who dropped the bb lifestyle, maybe because it was too dangerous. But even knowing how rational the decision was they can rarely let go completely, they go on dreaming about what might have been... posting 20 year old bb pics of themselves on FB or whatever. Look at Howard here on GB, he thinks about bb constantly... yeah he has his health but what if he went all out for glory!
