The increase of younger bodybuilders?

[FellowshipOfTheRon]

8 minutes ago, HarryB said:

So we're compounding the problem of lowering standards by being inspired by the struggle lol

 

The reason young guys aren't into powerlifting competition as much could be as simple as the fact they're as boring as hell. 

 

 

 

i'd be curious to find out more about this, too lazy to start a poll.. how many people got straight in to powerlifting and how many went in to it after starting off with the interest for bodybuilding?

 

when i first got in to gym, PL did actually seem really boring (was like wtf, why do people care who can lift a weight for only 1 rep lol) but now its the other way around, bb contests seem pretty boring apart from the pre comp banter whereas there is a different energy with PL

[HarryB]

Early on I did both but what got me started training was bodybuilding. I did a little powerlifting because apparently I had some potential in it. However way back then.. there was no raw division and I wasn't into equipped lifting. It didn't seem right to see a guy who could barely bench 140 or squat 200  in the gym add 20 to 40k through use of wraps, bench shirts, squat suits etc so I didn't pursue it. Now it is probably more attractive to people because they don't need that stuff to be competitive. 

 

Bodybuilding comps are boring but not as boring as powerlifting comps. To me anyway. I do like watching elite lifters cos it's so impressive but I don't really enjoy watching someone bench 100k or squat 220 unless they're female. I don't care how awesome their struggle is :) 

 

Now strongman. That's exciting to watch. I'd pick that over the other 2 any day of the week. 

[FellowshipOfTheRon]

glad someone said that, why don't we have a rise in teenage strongmen , now that would be an epic epidemic haha. @Wookie we need you to go spread your 'genetics' out more. inb4 planet of the apes

[Wookie]

1 minute ago, FellowshipOfTheRon said:

glad someone said that, why don't we have a rise in teenage strongmen , now that would be an epic epidemic haha. @Wookie we need you to go spread your 'genetics' out more

 

My wife is pregnant for the 3rd time... that what you talking about?

 

I don't recommend teenagers get into strongman, too brutal if it's done exclusively.

[PETN]

Pretty sure most young guys/girls care more about their looks (and getting a bit stronger than most of their peers for guys) and being attractive to opposite sex than about being competitively strong or standing around with a bunch of other men a g string.

 

Most young people think being a powerlifter means being fat and unaesthetic and most young people think bodybuilders are gay/unaesthetic.

[HarryB]

I wanna see the pics from a bodybuilding show of a bunch of men in gstrings. I've been to loads of comps and never seen it even once. Must be just in your collective homoerotic fantasies ha ha ha 

 

I'd say when your average young dude hits the gym it's cos he wants to look better and be more muscular as every says. This probably means he starts out with some kind of general bodybuilding type programme. I'd say everyone in here started out like that unless they started training for sports. Hell I'd say 90 percent of every gym goer at every age wants to be leaner and look better. Recreational bodybuilding. 

 

Is there a recreational powerlifting?

[PETN]

57 minutes ago, HarryB said:

I wanna see the pics from a bodybuilding show of a bunch of men in gstrings. I've been to loads of comps and never seen it even once. Must be just in your collective homoerotic fantasies ha ha ha 

 

I'd say when your average young dude hits the gym it's cos he wants to look better and be more muscular as every says. This probably means he starts out with some kind of general bodybuilding type programme. I'd say everyone in here started out like that unless they started training for sports. Hell I'd say 90 percent of every gym goer at every age wants to be leaner and look better. Recreational bodybuilding. 

 

Is there a recreational powerlifting?

 

Thats just how i reckon the majority of people perceive bodybuilding and probably why its not really popular with younger guys compared to physique.

 

Lots of people ive known have measured their gym progress by how much weight they can do on their main lifts whatever those might be as well as perhaps their bodyweight and how they look. Not a 1rm but maybe a 5-10rm type thing. Guess you could kind of call that recreational powerlifting?

[HarryB]

4 minutes ago, PETN said:

 

Thats just how i reckon the majority of people perceive bodybuilding and probably why its not really popular with younger guys compared to physique.

 

Lots of people ive known have measured their gym progress by how much weight they can do on their main lifts whatever those might be as well as perhaps their bodyweight and how they look. Not a 1rm but maybe a 5-10rm type thing. Guess you could kind of call that recreational powerlifting?

 

OK I'm involved in coaching and the feedback I usually get back is that physique is a bit effeminate, because there's no posing and no requirement for leg development. So it's more showy and viewed as less work than bodybuilding. Essentially they think anyone can do physique whereas bodybuilding is harder. That's generally why guys choose physique from my experience coaching wise. 

 

And I was being cheeky about the recreational powerlifting, I'm one of those guys who likes to be strong and that's what motivated in the beginning and still does now to a degree. It's just no one does a recreational block of smolov or 5 x 5. Truth is guys like to outbench all their mates but no one cares about squatting. Those guys do physique cos.... leg training is actually hard. 

[woody]

i recently returned to the gym after a 7 year lay off,recently being 3 years  back,and what concerned me reguarding the increase in the younger generation visiting gyms was the amount of them obviously using steroids,some even joining for the sole reason they'' scored some roids''.