Bodybuilding is dead

[little chris]

I would choose Frank Zane's built over Ronnie's everytime!

no doubt, Zane over anyone.
Coleman and all this freaks today look like new characters for resident evil. Its a fuckin disgrace when your GH belly sticks out as far as your gyno having chest.

I wish BB was like it was in the 70's.

 

[Sir-Que]

The thing is this, BB as we know it now has gone corporate. Like it or hate it the Ronnie's and Jay's of the world serve a big business purpose. Not only can they get freakishly huge on the front end. They also get make tons of money through endorsements and contracts, shit I wouldn't mind being paid to lift weights. After that the companies gets to promote its next protein or creatine drink, powder, bar, etc through the "you can be like this campaign."

Think about: how many young boys, men will watch a Mr. O and immediatly run to the nearest GNC (the place for many pills and few results) to by the best protein they can find. Cause someday, if they train hard they too can be a Mr.O

BBing, competitive or otherwise isn’t dead until MET-REX, and a whole host of other companies that makes Billions a year selling US bullshit say's it is.

BB is dead, you got to be fuckin crazy. Being disgusted about symmetry and prorpotion is one thing, but writing it off in search of the days of yester year is absolutely shortsighted if not blind. Yeah Arnold WAS good in HIS day, but you mean to tell me that he wounldn't have been bigger if he had to, he went to the limit for HIS day for THAT time. To set the record straight Arnold,Lou, and the rest of those guys were considered freakish in their day.

Don't get it twisted, I love symmetry and proportion as well. I think it's Bullshit that a guy like a Shaw Ray or a Dexter Jackson could never win a Mr. O cause their not HUGE enough, pure bullshit.

But Really......"I don't want to be as big as Ronnie," "Ronnie's too big"...... ohh goddamn stop it!!!! There are grown ass knowledgeable men on this board taking GRAM"S of shit a week, and it ain't cause they want to TONE UP or GAIN A LITTLE SIZE. We all want to be "Ronnie" in some form or another. That guy that walks or strolls in and the folks say, "Damn what's he eating."

We may agree the world of BB could be better. However truth be told most of us would not mind being "THAT GUY" in line at the store with everyone's eye's on his almost animated proportions.

Que-

 

[MMAfighter]

would it improve the sport to penalize athletes with GH gut? it is NOT an aesthetic look at all and it would force athletes to limit their dosages-probably a good thing for everybody. how can you rate a guy as having a superior body when it doesn't look good.

 

[Quadsweep]

I believe the prostitution thing starts with the judges- isn't that right?

Thats exactly right! Thats the way it was here back in 1985. They make it sound all legit like its for pics. then they work their way into this dude sucking your dick! They called me every six months for years! I was pissed!

Quad

 

[Anakin]

Arnold was a prostitute?

Quadsweep i'm not sure if I understand what you are saying.

Anyways, I know Arthur Jones (inventor of Nautilus and Mentzer's mentor) accused the one and only Arnold of being a male prostitute. It's in his autobiography, that Darden published on his website a few years ago.

 

[High-Jacked]

I think its a far stretch to say that bodybuilding is dead. However, I think the admiration and desire to "be like like the pro's" is dying. No longer does the average BB think that they could win Mr. Olympia since it requires that you basically sacrifice you health/life to do so. I think the mass public will enjoy watching these freak shows, and respect the hard work/dedication/genetics it takes for these guys to look the way they do, whether or not they would want to look like them. Its seems that BB at a lower level will never die though. Many BB don't need to be the best in the world, yet like to get recognition for their remarkable physique.

 

[silver_shadow]

yup

 

[Quadsweep]

I think its a far stretch to say that bodybuilding is dead. However, I think the admiration and desire to "be like like the pro's" is dying. No longer does the average BB think that they could win Mr. Olympia since it requires that you basically sacrifice you health/life to do so. I think the mass public will enjoy watching these freak shows, and respect the hard work/dedication/genetics it takes for these guys to look the way they do, whether or not they would want to look like them. Its seems that BB at a lower level will never die though. Many BB don't need to be the best in the world, yet like to get recognition for their remarkable physique.

I know many guys that compete year after year and do not win because they love it. I am an NPC judge and I am seeing a lot more Jr class (Teenage) Than I have in years. Thats where it starts. BB will be just fine. It goes through cycles, but it will be fine.

Quad

 

[JuicePimp]

would it improve the sport to penalize athletes with GH gut? it is NOT an aesthetic look at all and it would force athletes to limit their dosages-probably a good thing for everybody. how can you rate a guy as having a superior body when it doesn't look good.

This would be a good start. There is no way that Mr. O's gut should protrude past his chest in my book.

But it is not fair to say that these pro's "dont look good" they do, we all know it, but some part of us thinks that yeah, maybe things could be improved a bit. Then, there are the few people that act on it, deciding to become the improvement that is needed, out of those people, new pro's rise, and the sport lives on. Its a cycle. If you think you can do better than the current pros then bust your rear and get out there and compete.

 

[BO-DEN]

First of all, who works out thinking about what women are going to think? If you do, then you don't need to be on an anabolics website. You don't need steroids at all to get girls.

And secondly, if everyone on here is so fed up with bodybuilding, then go golf or something. If you don't want to look abnormal, and fit in with the average Joe, this would be a good sport for you...not bodybuilding.

I say train hard, eat big, be big...if people don't like it, fuck 'em.