I'd like to share my opinion from my perspective as a fan who has fallen absolutely in love with bodybuilding. Although not an uncommon effect, bodybuilding has saved my life and has lifted me into the light of life. And ever since my grip first closed around a barbell I knew that I'd found what I was looking for all my life.
I dream to become a championship bodybuilder. The best bodybuilder in the world! But how is that possible? Do I really want to cut short a great percentage of my life for muscles? I'd love to see bodybuilding become recognized as a sport and as a form of art. The goal of a pro bodybuilder would be to create using his own body, the perfect physique. Then he would step on stage and display what he believes to be the world's most perfectly developed body through a well thought out and rehearsed posing routine which both features bits and pieces of his own personality and shows off his body in such a way that it's used to convince the audience that he has the greatest work of art on stage.
I just came back from dinner with my family. And when they ask me if I want to become a professional bodybuilder I'm absolutely ashamed to have to teach them about all the sh*t that's happening within pro bodybuilding. And then I have to be lectured by them to not use steroids! That's because they see how dedicated I am! They can tell I love bodybuilding that much! As if I'd consider exposing myself to all that.. which I am considering all the time..
Lee Priest, what I want is to be able to live my dream! I want to enter a positive profession and be a respectable athlete. I want to excell at whatever I do with my life! What if I make the decision to latch on to my dream and go for the ride till the end just to discover it led me to nowhere? If you want to do something for the sport please change it in that respect! Finance is much less important than health! BBs are dropping like flies! I don't want to be another Getbig-style burial ceremony on the Gossip and Opinion boards!!
Give us, the fans, hope. And if you don't change bodybuilding maybe I will.
