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Title: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: Bluto on March 01, 2006, 04:13:23 PM
dont know if this been posted before but check it out
Title: Re: Bigorexia video
Post by: Snotroot on March 01, 2006, 04:19:50 PM
majority of guys that go to the gym feel this way.  I do.
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Post by: hillbilly on March 01, 2006, 04:21:20 PM
Well i agree its adictive but a "problem" i dont see it. i mean it makes me happy even though i'm never satisfyed with how strong i am or how big i am i wud still say i'm happier with my body than the average guy.
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: sean on March 01, 2006, 04:42:38 PM
damn that bro was a hairy mofo!
Title: Re: Bigorexia video
Post by: Borracho on March 01, 2006, 04:47:44 PM
majority of guys that go to the gym feel this way.  I do.

Me too. Never big enough, lean enough. Always striving for a perfect physique. Knowing well that a perfect physique doen't exist, it remains my goal/obsession.
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: Snotroot on March 01, 2006, 04:56:23 PM
when you're done working out you wish you looked pumped like that all the time.  then you keep saying 1o more lbs. 10 more lbs. next thing you're 240 and still not big enough.
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: Borracho on March 01, 2006, 05:10:04 PM
next thing you're 240.........

And making really crappy websites. 
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: Snotroot on March 01, 2006, 05:12:55 PM
And making really crappy websites. 
  ;)
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: SLYY on March 01, 2006, 05:18:11 PM
dont know if this been posted before but check it out


I hadnt seen it, so thanks for posting that.  I think the way this guy thinks it the way all bodybuilders think.  I know I do, and most of the guys I know do as well....
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: CC3 on March 01, 2006, 05:21:00 PM
Interesting link, thanks.  Like the above poster said, I can imagine this is something that affects most of the BBing community, at least those who take it seriously...
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: Stavios on March 01, 2006, 05:35:15 PM
I can't see it  >:(
for some reason Flash player doesn't work un my cpu since a couple of month
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: fang on March 01, 2006, 06:10:09 PM
I don’t think it should be considered as an disorder. I don't see any wrong with a driven or determined individual who continuously want to improve his/her own physique. They deliberately use that guy for the video to make audiences agree with them. Imagine putting someone with symmetry & aesthetics (like Frank Zane). I bet general reaction would be different.
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: Dnizneer on March 01, 2006, 06:11:20 PM
I suffer from Feceorexia.
No matter what I do my turds are never big enough.
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: weedoutheweak on March 01, 2006, 09:52:01 PM
Ken doesn't have 'bigorexia', ken has a bad case of pusitis.
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: gibberj2 on March 01, 2006, 10:46:21 PM
i was so skinny as a kid. i remember seeing other kids and they had at least some kind of chest and i'd have ribs going across mine. now i'm not close to big yet 15.25 inch arms 41.5 inch chest 25.5 inch legs 184 pounds. but i'm always looking at random people and trying to figure out if they are bigger than me or not. not in the gym just anywhere... i'm always thinking... that guy is small, is he bigger than me? and i try to measure other people up and figure out if they are bigger than me. i have friends and people i know who's arms i've seen and i always think their arms are bigger than mine and it turns out their arms are only like 13 or 14 inches.
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: Bodies on March 01, 2006, 11:01:13 PM
So they are trying to say that the BB lifestyle is a Disorder?  But being a pathetic weak lard ass fat reject sitting on the couch - jacking off and eating cheetos - watching worthless crap like this on the TV is a normal lifestyle?

That guy in the video should strangle his homo doctor and then shoot himself in his bitch ass head.
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: gibberj2 on March 01, 2006, 11:19:29 PM
couldn't have said it better myself. my mother's been giving me the same thing for years. if it was up to her i would probably be lucky to weigh 130 right now. it really pisses me off how people can be so ignorant about bodybuilding. if someone sees you skinny they tell you you need to gain some weight or "fill out more" what a garbage line because bodybuilding is the only thing to do. just eat and not work out right? people actually think you can look better like that. because they see someone with bigger muscles than you and not necesarily cut or anything they think it's because that person eats more or you should look like them but at the same time they're against the idea of bodybuilding like there's any other way to do it and anybody who's gained any sort of muscle has to be on steroids. right now i'm training my brother who's fat and whenever i talk about my goals or anything he asks me why dont i just stay the way i am as if i was suffering or something with what i'm doing and as if it was so hard to grow any more muscle or get in better shape that it's just not worth it and that i'm killing myself doing it. i talk about plans and changes in my routine or diet and he says this stuff. this is what bodybuilding is all about without changing your workouts, trying to figure out how to bring up certain bodyparts, figuring out how to bring up your size or anything there wouldn't be bodybuilding.
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: analcandy on March 02, 2006, 06:32:03 AM
this video is right on target, if you guys cant handle the truth, ie you are suffering from body dysmorphia, that's your problem.
But whatever you says, you suffer from a mental illness, like i do, like all of us do.

So what.  Everyone suffers from mental illness, we are all crazy somewhere, all lacking something.

Feel glad not suffering from smallorexia: ie people who are skinny and think they weigh 300 pounds of pure muscle mass.

they tend to have ILS too (imaginary lats syndrom) ahah


the funny is, watchign this video gave ma a rush of adrenalin and an incredible need to lift some fuckign wieghts.

If i'm crazy, why not being crazy more and more.
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: jaejonna on March 02, 2006, 06:47:37 AM
Dumb video... He lies, he said he wants everything on him to be big, but it is noticiable that he trimms his unibrow now....
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: Karl Kox on March 02, 2006, 07:08:15 AM
I understand the way he feels but he looks pretty good.

And why in the hell if he new he was gonna be on camara would he not shave that fucking hair off him self.
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: Mars on March 02, 2006, 07:23:52 AM
Nasser looked way different back then.
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: Karl Kox on March 02, 2006, 07:26:21 AM
Nasser looked way different back then.

Hhhaaahaaaaha 
Thats who I thought it was at first
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: Mars on March 02, 2006, 07:28:12 AM
What happend?
Title: Re: Bigorexia video
Post by: MAXX on March 02, 2006, 07:36:35 AM
Well i agree its adictive but a "problem" i dont see it. i mean it makes me happy even though i'm never satisfyed with how strong i am or how big i am i wud still say i'm happier with my body than the average guy.
word. if it makes you happy do it. why should that be concidered a disorder. its a lifestyle and its called bodybuilding.
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: bostonsliced on March 02, 2006, 12:07:04 PM
We're all Fu#%$'d!   Should have stuck with ping pong.
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: Bodies on March 02, 2006, 10:13:07 PM
Bodybuilders are some crazy ass MF'ers! ;D
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: slippediskmountian on March 02, 2006, 10:15:27 PM
worrying about how you look is a feminine trait
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: hifrommike on March 03, 2006, 09:59:59 AM
http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?sid=33&pid=410988

Harrison Pope, the main writer for THE ADONIS COMPLEX, is the one who did the most to popularize the notion of "male body obsession," otherwise called "bigorexia."  He has had it out for bodybuilders since the 1980s, when he started publishing professionally on the desire to use steroids as a mental illness.  If you look at the ADONIS COMPLEX book's self-quiz on whether you have it or not, even the desire to use steroids is grounds to say you "have" it.  Also, passing up a social invitation to work out is a sign you "have" it.  In short, it's horseshit.  But it's had a big influence & the media has picked it up like it's gospel truth.  But what it actually is is prejudice against bodybuilding. 

Anything you want to do well enough to compete in causes some degree of obsession/compulsion.  Classical pianists train 12 hours a day.  Any Olympic athlete has similarly rigorous schedules.  Does that make them mentally ill? 
Title: Re: VIDEO - Bigorexia
Post by: Natural1 on March 03, 2006, 11:32:20 AM
I agree with the above post. I think it all bull. Even intellectually...you have to be "obsessive" If you trying to write a thesis...or trying to become a phd...whic only less then 1 percent of the worlds population is then there is always that osession and that drive to be more. Are they gonna come up with a diagnoises for that as well??? all crap