Bodybuilding a sport?

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dgjesu3 Posts: 104 Joined: 2006/11/13	2006/12/01, 12:30 AM Just a general question. Is bodybuilding a sport?

	2006/12/01, 12:31 AM No, it's a vanity fettish. -------------- Sometimes life is like herding cats. Charlie
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2006/12/01, 07:23 AM You train for it, you compete in it, you win prizes, it takes dedication and knowledge... I would say that qualifies as a sport. You wear funny little outfits that creep up your buttcrack, you slather oil on your bulging muscles, you go through periods of pain and periods of deprivation...I would say it also qualifies as a vanity fettish:) -------------- Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another. Walter Elliott
SFGiantsMVP Posts: 1,533 Joined: 2005/12/04	2006/12/01, 05:26 PM From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A sport is an activity requiring physical ability, physical fitness or physical skill which usually, but not always, involves competition between two or more people. So IMO just going to the gym and lifting is participating in a sport, or is it that my opinion is an actual fact!
SFGiantsMVP Posts: 1,533 Joined: 2005/12/04	2006/12/01, 05:26 PM I get the same shit about my sport Bowling all the time and it really pisses me off. ============ Quoting from bb1fit: Bodybuilding is not a team sport..it is an individual sport. Anyone who says it isn't is one who either didn't have or never tried to muster up the guts to do what it takes to compete. It is one thing to talk the talk, another to walk the walk. Most cannot and do not complete the journey. =============
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/12/02, 01:41 PM I love the "athletes" that say bodybuilding isn't a sport. The guys that go to a practice for an hour and a half and say they are training. Most people don't realize that while a bodybuilder may not spend much time in the gym, it is an entire LIFESTYLE. I know people who compete, it encompasses everything. -------------- Iron and chalk.
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2006/12/02, 01:52 PM Good post wrestler....encompasses is putting it mildly. There are normally many apologies to be made post contest. :big_smile: -------------- Maximus from Gladiator....Strength and Honor!
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/12/02, 10:32 PM I'll agree with that from my wrestling days. After any big competition (state, nationals, beast), I've had to remake friends. And takes over might have been a better way to say it, but it just didn't sound as nice. -------------- Iron and chalk.
jaytori129 Posts: 657 Joined: 2006/11/14	2006/12/01, 02:53 PM LOL WOW YOU OPENED A CAN OF WORMS dgjesu3 OR MAYBE A CAN OF WHOOP A$$ FROM SOME LOL BB1 was being nice:laugh: -------------- Jason Fox 6'1" 380lbs Weight Goal 300 by april 2007
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2006/12/01, 02:35 PM Bodybuilding is not a team sport..it is an individual sport. Anyone who says it isn't is one who either didn't have or never tried to muster up the guts to do what it takes to compete. It is one thing to talk the talk, another to walk the walk. Most cannot and do not complete the journey. -------------- Maximus from Gladiator....Strength and Honor!
dgjesu3 Posts: 104 Joined: 2006/11/13	2006/12/03, 05:00 PM I don't think bodybuilders receive the respect they should. Not only is bodybuilding physically demanding, but I feel it is mentally tougher than any other sport.
B121 Posts: 2 Joined: 2006/12/03	2006/12/03, 10:02 PM bodybuilding may be a sport according to the defintion of a sport, but you dont need ne athletic ability to do it..dont get me wrong, it is as tough as any competition there is.however, there are more athletes in sports such as basketball, football, baseball, soccer etc. compared to that of bodybulding
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2006/12/03, 11:19 PM You who knock bodybuilding have no idea of what dgjesu3 says, the mental toughness. It is probably by far the most demanding from this aspect I have ever particiapted in, and I have been in sports my whole life...our school was a sports oriented school, football, basketball, we lived for it. Nowhere near as mentally demanding as bodybuilding. -------------- Maximus from Gladiator....Strength and Honor!
SFGiantsMVP Posts: 1,533 Joined: 2005/12/04	2006/12/03, 11:36 PM I think it's the most demanding and challenging to the body by far! Never has any sport ever lay me out like a good leg day in the gym has. 4 sets of heavy barbell squats to parallel or a tad below 3 sets of heavy dumbbell walking lunges 12 steps total each set. 3 sets of heavy leg presses 3 sets of heavy leg presses for calves 3 sets of heavy hip flexsions weighted and none weighted ab and core work In that exact order is what I have been doing this cycle and I tell you this each week I ad more weight and each week I need 2 day after that just to recover and stretch out. Any other sport I can play every day and even more then once a day but that leg session stated above I'd love to see someone try it every day. a few weeks I did it twice a week on a Monday and then Friday!
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2006/12/03, 11:45 PM See, I appreciate the thoughts on the 'physical' aspect of bodybuilding, the training, but trust me, when it comes to competition, this is the easy part. No judge will ever ask you how much you can bench press. The mental aspect is staying with the diet, keeping your focus on training while dam near glycogen depleted, then to top things off, learn a completely different aspect that has nothing to do with everything you have done. Posing. This is work, work, work in itself. You have to practice, practice and then practice more. You have maybe 3 minutes up on stage to present to the judges a physique you may have worked years on. One 'slip up', and you lose. For instance, told to do a front double bicep...fine, you concentrate on the bicep flex..oooopsss, forgot to flex legs and not act like you are. Buzzz, you are done. And then try doing this with 10 other guys vying for position at the same time. Then in the evening show, add music to the mix. A huge crowd... If you have not 'journeyed' this route, you cannot ever dream what it entails. Mental stress...you have never seen anything like this. -------------- Maximus from Gladiator....Strength and Honor!
dgjesu3 Posts: 104 Joined: 2006/11/13	2006/12/04, 04:50 AM I have never competed or anything like that, but even simple diets to gain muscle, or lose body fat are hard to follow. I can only imagine what kind of mental stress people who compete are under.
B121 Posts: 2 Joined: 2006/12/03	2006/12/04, 04:53 AM i never doubted how hard bodybulding was..i was just stating that i dont think there r as many athletes in bodybuilding cmpared to other sports
Carivan Posts: 8,542 Joined: 2002/01/20	2006/12/04, 11:01 PM Lets leave the name calling out of the posts. Thanks. -------------- A little discipline at the table and at the gym might help reduce that belly! Ivan Montreal Canada (City of Festivals)
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/12/04, 10:49 PM Message deleted by moderator due to unsuitable content for this board.