size needed for a 5`8 guy to turn pro?

[MASSIVEMONSTER]

i am 5`8 and today i weighed 224 this afternnon at 12.86% body fat. i last competed at 196 and am making rapid gains this time round on just prop and tren my usual stack and tons of food. i think i could diet down to about 202lb now and compete at that but long term i wanna get to 215. i am only 26.
Is 215 shredded a good weight for a 5`8 guy to step on stage at and have a good amount of mass?

 

[bluehen]

i am 5`8 and today i weighed 224 this afternnon at 12.86% body fat. i last competed at 196 and am making rapid gains this time round on just prop and tren my usual stack and tons of food. i think i could diet down to about 202lb now and compete at that but long term i wanna get to 215. i am only 26.
Is 215 shredded a good weight for a 5`8 guy to step on stage at and have a good amount of mass?

If your at 13% you need to come down to at least 198, why would you want to be at the bottom of the heavies when the top of the light heavies is les than 4 pounds away? If you want to be pro at your height you better be competing at 230lbs. But as we all know it takes a lot more to win a BB show than hitting a number on the scale, let's see some pics.

 

[MASSIVEMONSTER]

yeah i was just saying therotically i`d be about 202 but yes i would compete as a light heavy this year. no point in being a heavy unless i was 208-210..

 

[c3bodybuilding]

To turn pro you don't need to be that big. You need to have size of course, but also shape and symmetry. If you notice most of the guys who are succesful pro's today weren't that big as they are now as they were when they won their pro card. Just work on that size a lil more, if you have good shape (or you are marketable with a great face, and look), look really crisp, have nice muscle bellys and have the posing, color, and overall look of confidence and polish, oh and a shit load of luck too (oops, almost forgot that lol) then yeah hope and pray you get lucky. Pay your dues.

But in all reality, it is a lot of luck. With so many quality guys out there now. It sometimes comes down to something simple as one guys color was off, while one was polished perfect. Sometimes you may come in peeled, while others you may be slightly off. Bodybuilding is a subjective sport. There really are a lot of injustices as Lou Ferrigno once said.

If it's in your heart, give it your all while you are young, but don't lose site of other things in your life. Just don't give up and try your best. That's the best advice I could give other than the usual be consistent with your nutrtion, training, rest etc.

 

[BigCracker]

The fastest way you'll turn pro is by finding some gay BB judge and start having sex with him.

 

[c3bodybuilding]

LMAO Big cracker basically just said the truth that I really didn't want to flat out come and say. But yes, sadly this is nearly 110% true. Luck, being dialed in and the occasional blow or nude private posing sessions for some insiders of the industry. Sick sport we are all in!

 

[NYBodyguard]

you can put 1000 guys in a room all 5'8 all 9%bf all 215lbs and they will all look different, my point fuck the numbers how do you look

 

[RADAR]

i was 230lbs in my comp pictures!

RADAR

 

[growthspurt]

i was 230lbs in my comp pictures!

RADAR

How tall are you again, Radar?

 

[RADAR]

How tall are you again, Radar?

5'8''

RADAR

 

[growthspurt]

5'8''

RADAR

That's what I thought. Being dialed in at 230 and only being 5'8 would be awesome! I'm the same height@ 210, and I would have to guess i would be only in the 185-190 range dialed in for a show. I would look like a fucking toothpick!

 

[c3bodybuilding]

I wouldn't say tooth pick. If you have good shape and small joints you'd look swole. Franco was 5'6 190 in contest shape (which back then was 7-9%). It sounds like you have a good build 5'8 210 is swole brother

 

[growthspurt]

I wouldn't say tooth pick. If you have good shape and small joints you'd look swole. Franco was 5'6 190 in contest shape (which back then was 7-9%). It sounds like you have a good build 5'8 210 is swole brother

Thanks Bro. I wasn't blessed with those huge muscle bellies alot big fuckers have. Most noticeable, my biceps. I'm looking to drop some fat and hang on to my BW for this spring.

 

[needsize]

you are competing with pretty close to the stats that I had last time around, and I know all the top national guys in canada that I know that are 5'8" are all around 215lbs, at least, thats why its my goal to weigh at least that before ever stepping on stage again

 

[c3bodybuilding]

Needsize...I don't think you have anything to worry about! Soon brother soon. You've come so far so quick. I remember it was just a few years ago you were only thinking of stepping on stage, look at you now!!

 

[bluehen]

you are competing with pretty close to the stats that I had last time around, and I know all the top national guys in canada that I know that are 5'8" are all around 215lbs, at least, thats why its my goal to weigh at least that before ever stepping on stage again

Yeah but you post pictures, so we know you really weigh what you say you do.

 

[BigCracker]

LMAO Big cracker basically just said the truth that I really didn't want to flat out come and say. But yes, sadly this is nearly 110% true. Luck, being dialed in and the occasional blow or nude private posing sessions for some insiders of the industry. Sick sport we are all in!

So many guys don't wanna see this. I know that I didn't in the beginning. Then over time I progressed in the sport and moved out West. I remember talking to a writer for Musclemag(some googley eyed homo)at Venice Gold's and Shawn Ray Pulls up in a Lotus. I was all impressed thinking Pro BB's make bank!!!! At least until he asked the homo writer guy to borrow $10 to buy lunch. It was then that I realized that the car wasn't even his, it belonged to one of his gay sugardaddy sponsors.

A couple months later I go to watch the Cal State BB championship. I see guys like Flex, Cormier, etc all sitting together at prejudging-next to them are a couple of twinks(skinny gay guys). I find out the twinks are both chemists at UCLA. Supposedly they made AS from scratch for a few pros in return for favors of some sort.

In Pro BB it's who ya know and who ya blow.

 

[PolfaJelfa]

Haha...Big Cracker and C3 you guys are right on the money. Gay judges and others alot of these bbs' suck down are reffered to as "sponsors".

The whoel BB scene is filled with freaks. Just look at Joe Weider and his tennis shoes, that guy is as gay as it gets. Wife= Diversion.

 

[BigCracker]

Haha...Big Cracker and C3 you guys are right on the money. Gay judges and others alot of these bbs' suck down are reffered to as "sponsors".

The whoel BB scene is filled with freaks. Just look at Joe Weider and his tennis shoes, that guy is as gay as it gets. Wife= Diversion.

The worst part is that guys like me devoted a good chunk of our lives trying to compete against these guys that don't even work-besides biting the pillow. Anyone that wants to be pro has to ask themselves just how bad that they want it. If you're willing to sell your soul, then go for it.

I highly recommend anyone that wants to turn pro to attend a big amateur show in Cali-like the NPC Cali State Championships. In the audience you'll see every freak and fag combo imaginable.