Why bodybuilding will never be mainstream.

[RJB]

1) It is completely gay. Don't get me wrong, I don't think calling something "gay" is an intelligent way to describe it, but it's the best I can do with this one. I mean, guys stressing out over their bodies, tanning, wearing speedos: this is all completely "gay"! Throw in the competition part of the sport, the prancing around like a fairy and having old people look at you and it is officially 30X more gay than even men's gymnastics.

2) Steroids. To compete in baseball, some guys do steroids. To compete in bodybuilding, all of the guys have to do steroids. Not exactly family friendly. No parent is going to encourage their kid to join a sport that requires injecting synth into your tricep to make it bigger.

3) Lack of talent. You aren't getting the best of the best. You're getting the best of the people who couldn't do something better. Plenty of pro athletes and pro wrestlers have physiques that could easily compete with pro bodybuilders, but they have something better to do.


Don't get me wrong, I love the sport, but I am completely out of my mind. Most people would probably cite the reasons above. 

[Rottmag]

I love the sport, but I am completely out of my mind.

'nuff said!

[littleguns]

You forget that MR Olympia is the same guy every year till he retires

[danielson]

too many short bbers don't help things. It sucks seeing a giant in a magazine, then seeing him in person and noticing he is 5'2"

[BayGBM]

RJB you're a Master!

[RJB]

RJB you're a Master!

tru. Want to be my sidekick since pointing that out was just as obvious.

[HUGEPECS]

too many short bbers don't help things. It sucks seeing a giant in a magazine, then seeing him in person and noticing he is 5'2"

Tell me about...lol. I was at the New york Pro in may, I noticed a guy that I saw in a magazine, and he was about 5'3'' in person. I was like damn, those guys look like giants in the pages.

[danielson]

yeah, way too many people who should be wearing sombreros and serving drinks off their heads(Lee) enter bodybuilding and ruin it for everyone else cuz they look like freaky little midgets.

[Bluto]

and that's the only reasons.

[IceCold]

1) It is completely gay. Don't get me wrong, I don't think calling something "gay" is an intelligent way to describe it, but it's the best I can do with this one. I mean, guys stressing out over their bodies, tanning, wearing speedos: this is all completely "gay"! Throw in the competition part of the sport, the prancing around like a fairy and having old people look at you and it is officially 30X more gay than even men's gymnastics.

2) Steroids. To compete in baseball, some guys do steroids. To compete in bodybuilding, all of the guys have to do steroids. Not exactly family friendly. No parent is going to encourage their kid to join a sport that requires injecting synth into your tricep to make it bigger.

3) Lack of talent. You aren't getting the best of the best. You're getting the best of the people who couldn't do something better. Plenty of pro athletes and pro wrestlers have physiques that could easily compete with pro bodybuilders, but they have something better to do.


Don't get me wrong, I love the sport, but I am completely out of my mind. Most people would probably cite the reasons above. 

your first two points are somewhat valid.  but i dont agree with the 3rd one.  what else did the bbers try to do, but couldnt?  and which ones?  acutally, many other athletes and pro wrestlers are fans of the sports.  and which other athletes that have phsyques that could "easily compare to the pros".  i dont know of any.

bbing will never be mainstream and it shouldnt.  soccer and hockey will never be mainstream either.

[danielson]

your first two points are somewhat valid.  but i dont agree with the 3rd one.  what else did the bbers try to do, but couldnt?  and which ones?  acutally, many other athletes and pro wrestlers are fans of the sports.  and which other athletes that have phsyques that could "easily compare to the pros".  i dont know of any.

bbing will never be mainstream and it shouldnt.  soccer and hockey will never be mainstream either.

dunk a basketball, eat at a restaurant without a booster chair, most of them are runts.

[MCWAY]

your first two points are somewhat valid.  but i dont agree with the 3rd one.  what else did the bbers try to do, but couldnt?  and which ones?  acutally, many other athletes and pro wrestlers are fans of the sports.  and which other athletes that have phsyques that could "easily compare to the pros".  i dont know of any.

bbing will never be mainstream and it shouldnt.  soccer and hockey will never be mainstream either.

Soccer isn't the best example. Soccer isn't mainstream in the USA; internationally, it's king, as has been demonstrated by the fans at the World Cup.

[Bluto]

i'd say hockey is mainstream as well, bad examples.

[SteelePegasus]

1) It is completely gay. Don't get me wrong, I don't think calling something "gay" is an intelligent way to describe it, but it's the best I can do with this one. I mean, guys stressing out over their bodies, tanning, wearing speedos: this is all completely "gay"! Throw in the competition part of the sport, the prancing around like a fairy and having old people look at you and it is officially 30X more gay than even men's gymnastics.

2) Steroids. To compete in baseball, some guys do steroids. To compete in bodybuilding, all of the guys have to do steroids. Not exactly family friendly. No parent is going to encourage their kid to join a sport that requires injecting synth into your tricep to make it bigger.

3) Lack of talent. You aren't getting the best of the best. You're getting the best of the people who couldn't do something better. Plenty of pro athletes and pro wrestlers have physiques that could easily compete with pro bodybuilders, but they have something better to do.


Don't get me wrong, I love the sport, but I am completely out of my mind. Most people would probably cite the reasons above. 

Did it take you a long time to come up with this?

[DK II]

yeah, way too many people who should be wearing sombreros and serving drinks off their heads(Lee) enter bodybuilding and ruin it for everyone else cuz they look like freaky little midgets.

hahahaha, so true.
I nearly choked to death when i found out Markus Ruehl was the same height as i am!
He looked so big in the magazines, but then he's not the biggest, and seeing him in real life makes him look somewhat grotesque.

As for Soccer and Hockey aren't mainstream:

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Name me two sports that are more mainstream in europe!
Man, in england, even pool and darts are mainstream, but bodybuilding isn't mainstream anywhere in the world!
the reasons are mentioned above.

[gatrainer]

dunk a basketball, eat at a restaurant without a booster chair, most of them are runts.

Your knocks on Lee are quite entertaining I must admit    Just curious....Whats your beef with him?

[SteelePegasus]

Your knocks on Lee are quite entertaining I must admit    Just curious....Whats your beef with him?

These days Lee is busy picking fights with guys in the army.

Why doesn't he try to train instead??

[danielson]

Your knocks on Lee are quite entertaining I must admit    Just curious....Whats your beef with him?

no beef, I just don't like foreigners who get rich over here and then question our military, who are dying while he's prospering.

[Luv2Hurt]

i'd say hockey is mainstream as well, bad examples.

Nhaaa hockey is not mainstream, cept maybe in hey der land.

[catch22]

soccer and hockey will never be mainstream either.

Football World Cup's opening match: 2 billion viewers.... 

[DK II]

Football World Cup's opening match: 2 billion viewers.... 

I bet the Mr O could as high as that!




























If there where 2 billion gays having pay TV and too much time on they oiled up hands. 

[HUGEPECS]

bodybuilding to others, is just another way to kill time, and entertain, hardly a sport, some consider it an underground circles. no matter how you see it, bodybuilding will gain one fan at a time.

[BayGBM]

I bet the Mr O could as high as that!

If there where 2 billion gays having pay TV and too much time on they oiled up hands. 

Not exactly.  The spectacle of bodybuilding appeals primarily to bicurious and closeted men--not gays.  Gay men are perfectly comfortable walking into a porn shop and selecting very explicit porn of their choice (body type, sex act, interracial, toys, etc)--something a closeted or curious “straight” guy would not do.  We are also perfectly comfortable going to a local gay bar or other venue and hooking up with whomever we want . . .

So sitting around watching midgets flexing is not enough to get our hearts racing.  That may have been exciting at 13 but not at 23, 33, or 43.  Adult male fans of bodybuilding are essentially gay men with emotionally stunted development--stuck at 13.  

Some guys grow out of this and accept who they are.  Others, for a variety of reasons (religion, family, other baggage) deny their real appetites and engage in the safe, socially accepted pastime of watching bodybuilders over and over again in shows and on video.  

[Bluto]

Nhaaa hockey is not mainstream, cept maybe in hey der land.

Hockey is big in the us, canada, a lot of european countries, world cups, olympics and so on.

[Bluto]

Wrong.  The spectacle of bodybuilding appeals primarily to bicurious and closeted men--not gays.  Gay men are perfectly comfortable walking into a porn shop and selecting very explicit porn of their choice (body type, sex act, interracial, toys, etc)--something a closeted or curious “straight” guy would not do.  We are also perfectly comfortable going to a local gay bar or other venue and hooking up with whomever we want . . .

So sitting around watching midgets flexing is not enough to get our hearts racing.  That may have been exciting at 13 but not at 23, 33, or 43.  Adult male fans of bodybuilding are essentially gay men with emotionally stunted development--stuck at 13. 

Some guys grow out of this and accept who they are.  Others, for a variety of reasons (religion, family, other baggage) deny their real appetites and engage in the safe, socially accepted pastime of watching bodybuilders over and over again in shows and on video. 

And there I was thinking "gay men" couldn't be defined, other than they're attracted to men, and not women.
But luckily, you know exactly how every person on this planet works, because you're gay.
And obviously I know that every heterosexual is the same, because I'm heterosexual. Makes sense.