when did you get over the bodybuilding "lifestyle"?

[TSNWGS]

Yes the bodybuilding lifestyle fades, but the love of being huge and pumping iron lives forever in the blood!

[da_vinci]

oh yes i had that... i still have that, if i don't workout at least i can't do anything else. i had the phase when i went to solarium 40 minutes at a time just to get that glow to the skin before going out, after training of course.

Holly shit... I'd say you have about ten years to live and then you'll die of skin cancer.

How is that for some motivation??

[devilsmile]

I live in America. I don't know what a solarium is.

ok, bad ass

Holly shit... I'd say you have about ten years to live and then you'll die of skin cancer.

How is that for some motivation??

yeah it's crazy what a man does to look good. why can't an average hight skinny white male look good just being white? unfair

[Nirvana]

If you had kept eating 8 meals a day and lifting progressively heavier weights each workout you could have been 300lbs with abs by now.

[Simple Simon]

im still training in cut off denim shorts and lumberjack shits and carrying round fifteen gallons of water when i train

so i dont get dehydrated

i eat seventeen meals a day so i stay anabolic

i do exercise routines with names like tyranosauras pecs

i spend 10k a month on supplements because the advert had a guy in a lab coat on it

outside of that i dont really follow the lifestyle

quality...

[da_vinci]

ok, bad ass

yeah it's crazy what a man does to look good. why can't an average hight skinny white male look good just being white? unfair

I know a 5/10 fella who went to study to China. Guess what - he had a very good success with local females over there. Pretty much any white/caucasian male is a model playboy in asian countries. Consider moving to one of these, your cock would fall off from fucking these little whores.

[Thespritz0]

it makes me feel i should have learned to speak at least five languages and get some sort of degree that allows me to make bank

it also makes me feel like she's most probably his friendzone girlfriend, or his sister.

it also makes me feel i should have gotten help from a bunch of shrinks when i was 13 to help me with better character development, instead of dwelling every day in the shadows

^^
You can join the Army, they'll help you for FREE with that... 

[devilsmile]

I know a 5/10 fella who went to study to China. Guess what - he had a very good success with local females over there. Pretty much any white/caucasian male is a model playboy in asian countries. Consider moving to one of these, your cock would fall off from fucking these little whores.

i've heard good stories like that before. never had sex with an asian woman neither, i can imagine it would be fun

speaking of asian girls, when i was at my best, tann and all that stupid shit, there was this 5'1 korean phat ass girl training in my gym for a short time. she would always come train late at night. when i talked to her she could just tell how fucking thirsty i was, there was no way in hell i was gonna get that pussy. she looked your stereotypical perfect face korean chick, but with round butt and legs and hour glass waist. no chance . yes i did talk to her, i asked her out and her number, i even tried to goof on her, nothing worked. i came from the solarium tanning bed pumped up without a shirt and told her good night, she was like " k bye" like i was a pop up commercial.

ironically few years later i saw her biking with a very huge fat caucasian man who looked 3 times older than she was. but i had no other game except my  "hot looks" that i sustained for short period of time, i was too obvious. i should have just dressed in loose jeans, black sneakers and an average black t shirt and cut my hair. i was so dellusional back then, i couldn't carry my self right. metrosexual fashion definitely made me look gay, i thought i looked good... fucking idiot

^^
You can join the Army, they'll help you for FREE with that...  

sounds like a really good idea, i'll look in to it right now

[Never1AShow]

this thread was inspired by this thread
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=607684.0


when I read the above thread, I was taken back to a time where my life was training, dieting, looking in the mirror, tanning and nothing else

The weird thing I was doing all of these things yet I didn't compete
I just had nothing else in my life so I through myself body first into creating this life

...but I got older and I, organically, started to not care so much about my "abs"

I didn't care about meal prep
I started eating anything I wanted....btw- when I say "eating anything I wanted" I didn't mean "everyday was like a buffet"....if I felt like eating a whole pizza- great.....however, some nights I just wanted cereal....shit- there are some morning where I just eat a bagel and yogurt.....

I go back to the theme of getting older and how certain things don't organically matter as much as they used to

I don't have to force myself to think "you can't keep up".....you just honestly don't care about certain things anymore

You also realize that the Weider magazines may have fucked you up a bit because it sold you a lie

It sold you a image of what you are supposed to be and if you weren't "francois Benfatto" then you were nothingness

when did you get over the fact that you didn't have to go to a tanning bed before you hit the mall because if you weren't tan then girls wouldn't like you

however- lets not get crazy---I'm not gonna say be a slob lke Jason Blaha and start saying "yeah- I don't mind having a dad bod because FUCK THE MEDIA MAN!!!"....jason blaha was never anything and is a liar who NEVER had a great body....he should never talk about male body dysmorphia...if anything he should take up anorexia


uuummm.....I ranted and went off on tangents and I'll admit that I didn't proof read anything that posted but you get my drift

i forsee alot of edits to the above because of grammatical stuff

discuss


btw- the above shouldn't make sense to anyone under the age of 25....to you youngsters out there now is the time to buy into the myth and do your "8 meals a day, 8 hours of sleep" gimmick......you're young and now is the time to work for the machine

I am happy to have inspired another Getbigger towards some mind expanding reminiscences.  I will treasure this almost as much as that one pm from Navy Mike.

Also don't just count the negatives from the lies, there is a positive also from realizing how much BS is out there in the world.  That very very valuable lesson is something I attribute to having learned from my bbing lifestyle.  And better to learn it from something less important like that than from a failed business or marriage.

[Never1AShow]

Exactly.. now when I think, I really can't remember a single person that has been really into it and managed to "escape the lifestyle", and I know quite some guys who have been lifting for like 30 years, when I meet them - they are still in shape, still eagerly talk about their current eating/lifting habbits/etc.. But honestly, I really love this illness and I'm fascinated by someone like R.Robinson, S.Nubret, O'Hearn, that's what means to really be "ill" in that sense, you "quit" when you die, simple as that, fighting that fight till the last breath.

I agree with this.  I also continue to harbor fantasies that someday I will have enough time to properly train and stay in better shape.  I'm planning on owning a gym in my retirement.

[CalvinH]

I still train consistently but was never able to stay with a super strict diet.
I eat pretty healthy but not killing myself over it.

[Yamcha]

Saw a buddy of mine get married and divorced before the age of 25 because he let the "lifestyle" (particularly that IIFYM bullshit) make him obnoxiously obsessive over his daily macros.

[Never1AShow]

If you have never gone in a competition or at the very least been a training partner with someone who was going in a competition then you have never lived "the lifestyle."  I make an exception for those who have 10+ years of consistent training.  I suspect very many here are just delusional.

[johnnynoname]

Saw a buddy of mine get married and divorced before the age of 25 because he let the "lifestyle" (particularly that IIFYM bullshit) make him obnoxiously obsessive over his daily macros.

there are two things here that legit blow my mind
1) the divorce over not being able to "hit your macros"
2) getting married THAT young

[Tha Grim Lifter]

I'm 36 I've been training 20 years straight. I don't care as much as I used to but I still train when I need to, not as heavy but slower and always to failure. Best quality and condition I've ever had right now. Being obsessed is the problem, however if you want to get somewhere you have to be pretty obsessed. As long as it didn't effect me in university or then working I didn't really mind I always worked it around things that I considered more important.

[da_vinci]

If you have never gone in a competition or at the very least been a training partner with someone who was going in a competition then you have never lived "the lifestyle."  I make an exception for those who have 10+ years of consistent training.  I suspect very many here are just delusional.

This is true too. Most are just imaging they are "living the lifestyle" (then "life gets in", as THEY tend to say, and it's all over). I've been training and "living the lifestyle" for over 15 years and when I meet someone who has been the same I can tell instantly, but that is rare occassion. It's mostly a transitional phase for most other, not something they do as a way of life/a mindset/a philosophy and art of itself.

[da_vinci]

Trully lving the lifestyle is this, everything else is just an attempt:

https://www.instagram.com/timbahwolffff/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/helmutstrebl/?hl=en

[johnnynoname]

Trully lving the lifestyle is this, everything else is just an attempt:

https://www.instagram.com/timbahwolffff/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/helmutstrebl/?hl=en

here's the thing though----are these two guys genuinely happy?

and I don't ask that in a "rhetorical" way.......if those guys are genuinely happy and think they live a rewarding life then I have no issue with them living there lifestyle


for me, I organically still care about working out but I just don't give a shit about "okay--today is monday so I have to train legs because that's what I do every monday" or "well, I'm hungry now but two hours haven't past since my last meal"


I didn't care about any of that anymore

while I try to hit a body part once a week, I won't flip out if i didn't train biceps during the week
I only eat breakfast and dinner and eat whatever I want.....notice again that I said "whatever I want" and NOT "stuffing my face like a pig".....a lot of people translate "whatever I want" wrongly......

I think that this is harder for people like me who defined themselves so much by his physique for so many years.....

[da_vinci]

here's the thing though----are these two guys genuinely happy?

and I don't ask that in a "rhetorical" way.......if those guys are genuinely happy and think they live a rewarding life then I have no issue with them living there lifestyle


for me, I organically still care about working out but I just don't give a shit about "okay--today is monday so I have to train legs because that's what I do every monday" or "well, I'm hungry now but two hours haven't past since my last meal"


I didn't care about any of that anymore

while I try to hit a body part once a week, I won't flip out if i didn't train biceps during the week
I only eat breakfast and dinner and eat whatever I want.....notice again that I said "whatever I want" and NOT "stuffing my face like a pig".....a lot of people translate "whatever I want" wrongly......

I think that this is harder for people like me who defined themselves so much by his physique for so many years.....

"Happiness" is a very trivial concept. What does it mean to be "genuinely happy"? I personally ceased to search for any kidn of "happiness" some years ago. When people ask me for whatever reason "But are you really happy", my answer is always "I'm not after happiness so I don't really care". Successfull survival is what fires a "feel good" state of mind in our brain, so pretty much survival should be a goal in order to feel "happy" (but that is a transient emotion anyway, just like all other).
 Being physically fit and strong, for me PERSONALLY, is probably the best thing, maybe even better feeling than sex, I'm not sure yet. I could loose all my material assets and become a homeless bum, but if I'd still be strong and fit - I'd still smile in the morning, because only a sky is the limit. That's how I see it, but I get that other people may see it differently. So to answer your (semi-rhetorical) question, I'd guess they are among the happiest animals (keeping in mind that being constantly "happy" in this animalistic reality one must be retarded or intoxicated by alcohol/narcotics), next to these who are filthy rich and these who are mentally retarded (so even showing a finger makes them "happy"), but that is only my guess.

[da_vinci]

To add to that question, it's best to ask themselves, and here's what one of them has to say (1:28):

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[Thong Maniac]

Trully lving the lifestyle is this, everything else is just an attempt:

https://www.instagram.com/timbahwolffff/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/helmutstrebl/?hl=en

these guys give off the impression of total alpha, manly man, "living the life", blah blah, but really to me this instagram shit screams man-boy insecurities times 1000. think abouT what goes into taking these pics and uploading your "hot" pics for likes on some app. there aint nothing organic or manly about these guys. real men would not do this. sure they look good though, but they know it

[ProudVirgin69]

these guys give off the impression of total alpha, manly man, "living the life", blah blah, but really to me this instagram shit screams man-boy insecurities times 1000. think abouT what goes into taking these pics and uploading your "hot" pics for likes on some app. there aint nothing organic or manly about these guys. real men would not do this. sure they look good though, but they know it

These guys make their living off their physiques, from modeling to training clients....posting on instagram/twitter/facebook is how you market yourself in the 21st century.  Not doing it just means you're falling behind

[Yamcha]

there are two things here that legit blow my mind
1) the divorce over not being able to "hit your macros"
2) getting married THAT young

Got married at like 23. He used to compete as a physique guy, but he wasn't so anal about the macros thing until after the marriage had started. He would seriously let 8 grams of fat ruin his day.

His wife, who is good looking, says that he also lost his sex drive (probably directly due to his low bodyfat %, and limited diet). She wanted to go out to eat on the weekends and grab ice cream, or a drink or two... unfortunately she practically had to submit that request in writing a week in advance.

It really is a mental problem. I guarantee that they'd still be together if he dropped to IIFYM bullshit, pinned some test, and popped Viagra. The girl just wanted her brains fucked out.

[Thong Maniac]

Got married at like 23. He used to compete as a physique guy, but he wasn't so anal about the macros thing until after the marriage had started. He would seriously let 8 grams of fat ruin his day.

His wife, who is good looking, says that he also lost his sex drive (probably directly due to his low bodyfat %, and limited diet). She wanted to go out to eat on the weekends and grab ice cream, or a drink or two... unfortunately she practically had to submit that request in writing a week in advance.

It really is a mental problem. I guarantee that they'd still be together if he dropped to IIFYM bullshit, pinned some test, and popped Viagra. The girl just wanted her brains fucked out.

has he improved or is he still mentally ill?

[johnnynoname]

being "a real man" has nothing to do with posting on social media


just know who you organically are and be that.......be proud of that


a great example of a "real man" (even though it's a fictional character) is "peter" from the movie "office space" after the group therapy session

that's a example of a real man