So who's a BODYBUILDER ?

[Specter]

Most of these guys who do bodybuild and dont compete invest a lot of time and supplements in themselves for their own benefit...not for others...

tru, but i dnt know many guys that dont appricate a compliment on there size/shape and wot better way to show ur tru progress in its best conditioning and lighting than on stage. :wink:

Of course guys appreciate compliments for their efforts, but what makes you think getting up on stage is a better way for those who are not interested in competing? :shock: Is it too compare themselves with other bodybuilders? :-s

[AlBundy]

Hmm I have my own option, and that is someone who tries to eat clean may not count calories, but trains like a sonavabitch and understands how to train to build symmetry. Obviously eating clean entails consuming alot of food. Maybe not necessarily figuring out nutrient partitioning or things like that.

I'd consider that a basic bodybuilder, if you have good genetics you can grow and look good like that but obviously at a competitive level it becomes necessary to sort out your diet and have some degree of instinct as to how your body responds in regards to training and diet.

I guess that means my opinion is that I think their are different levels of bodybuilders.

[1day]

specter u bastard, lol, u changed ur wording :pfft:

[Specter]

Hmm I have my own option, and that is someone who tries to eat clean may not count calories, but trains like a sonavabitch and understands how to train to build symmetry. Obviously eating clean entails consuming alot of food. Maybe not necessarily figuring out nutrient partitioning or things like that.

I'd consider that a basic bodybuilder, if you have good genetics you can grow and look good like that but obviously at a competitive level it becomes necessary to sort out your diet and have some degree of instinct as to how your body responds in regards to training and diet.

I guess that means my opinion is that I think their are different levels of bodybuilders.

lol..like enhanced and natural????

[AlBundy]

Yea I guess at the competitive end gear use will be an almost inevitable component if you want to place. That said it has a genetic component and adds another variable into the equation. gear diet training all of which must be pretty spot on to be as good as you can be.

[1day]

Yea I guess at the competitive end gear use will be an almost inevitable component if you want to place. That said it has a genetic component and adds another variable into the equation. gear diet training all of which must be pretty spot on to be as good as you can be.

so wot are u bundy? non competeitive, competitive, enhanced, natural?

[boostinggtir]

I am all of the above. I expect to reach pro status soon.

[knock knock]

I make my body bigger and stronger by lifting weights and working out......?often....?

[AlBundy]

Natural for now, I'm still young enough to make reasonable gains without gear. Although I am what you would call the dreaded book smart guy. I have a pretty in depth understanding of the human body. Can't offer any first hand experience with gear, however my stance on it is that I don't have an issue with it. I'm not competitive in that sense, but I am competitive with myself and have very specific goals which I will reach with regard to strength and physique.

[Calvin]

I think in my mind I associate bodybuilding with "big".

Well worded. When i think of a bodybuilder i think of the following:

-Someone who eats like theres no tomorrow.

-Someone who walks with their legs wide apart (due to huge legs)

-Someone who walks with their arms out due to big lats

-Someone who looks like they have a barrel for a chest and basketballs for delts.

:grin: lol

[teamfatboy]

Nice thoughts...I guess I'd have to say that a bodybuilder's someone who focusses their sporting or physical-exercise on improving the way their body compares to a given look (and yes, that might mean 'big'), rather than a specific purpose (like a powerlifter/ olympic lifter, or a runner or swimmer).

If someone who goes for a jog around the waterfront on a sunny day is a runner, are they any less of a runner for not entering a competitive, timed 10K run? Someone who uses their bike for transport's a cyclist, even tho they may never pin a number to their back.

I guess I'd call myself a non-competitive bodybuilder with competition aspirations :grin:

[shruglife]

I've done a couple of shows and doing more this year but I will hold off labeling myself a bodybuilder till I look a bit bigger ....I think in my mind I associate bodybuilding with "big".

:ditto:

[Hennie]

This is not my opinion but back in SA I remember a BB t-shirt saying:

"Your'e only a bodybuilder if you compete!"

Just came to mind after i saw the T-shirt thread and then this one

[Optimass]

Interesting poll ....

Half of me is saying - not a bodybuilder unless you have competed, but the other rationalises it similar to Surfing ... i.e Long boarders vs the short board competitive boarders. I know they have long board pros now - but when they first really launched competitive surfing these were the two options.

the long boarders were like the traditionalists/pureist - lived the lifestyle but bagged the short boards as they ripped up the waves which was not the pure ideal as to why you get out there and be one with nature.

So i guess I like the term "competitive bodybuilder" and just "bodybuilder". i think the term "non-competitive" doesn't fit ... i.e if you drive a holden GTS you no doubt may aspire to race cars but then can you call yourself a non-competitive supercar driver - or aspiring supercar driver. (Could be aspiring but you would need to be involved in some way on the competitive side).

i don't think it has anything to do with enhanced/natural or organic trainers.

[Specter]

Interesting poll ....

Half of me is saying - not a bodybuilder unless you have competed, but the other rationalises it similar to Surfing ... i.e Long boarders vs the short board competitive boarders. I know they have long board pros now - but when they first really launched competitive surfing these were the two options.

the long boarders were like the traditionalists/pureist - lived the lifestyle but bagged the short boards as they ripped up the waves which was not the pure ideal as to why you get out there and be one with nature.

So i guess I like the term "competitive bodybuilder" and just "bodybuilder". i think the term "non-competitive" doesn't fit ... i.e if you drive a holden GTS you no doubt may aspire to race cars but then can you call yourself a non-competitive supercar driver - or aspiring supercar driver. (Could be aspiring but you would need to be involved in some way on the competitive side).

i don't think it has anything to do with enhanced/natural or organic trainers.

lol...watch out..might have to stick a new option in our profile declaring if peeps are 1.Bodybuilder 2.Non Competative Bodybuilder 3.Competative Bodybuilder. 4. Wannabe Bodybuilder 5.I got up on stage so that makes me a real Bodybuilder. :roll:

[nemesis]

so is it a case of pro and amateur then? like alot of sports the so called pro's are not always necessarily the best.

[musclenz]

Interesting poll ....

Half of me is saying - not a bodybuilder unless you have competed, but the other rationalises it similar to Surfing ... i.e Long boarders vs the short board competitive boarders. I know they have long board pros now - but when they first really launched competitive surfing these were the two options.

the long boarders were like the traditionalists/pureist - lived the lifestyle but bagged the short boards as they ripped up the waves which was not the pure ideal as to why you get out there and be one with nature.

So i guess I like the term "competitive bodybuilder" and just "bodybuilder". i think the term "non-competitive" doesn't fit ... i.e if you drive a holden GTS you no doubt may aspire to race cars but then can you call yourself a non-competitive supercar driver - or aspiring supercar driver. (Could be aspiring but you would need to be involved in some way on the competitive side).

i don't think it has anything to do with enhanced/natural or organic trainers.

lol...watch out..might have to stick a new option in our profile declaring if peeps are 1.Bodybuilder 2.Non Competative Bodybuilder 3.Competative Bodybuilder. 4. Wannabe Bodybuilder 5.I got up on stage so that makes me a real Bodybuilder. :roll:

Just because you have got up on stage & been a "competing" Bodybuilder, does not make you a "competative" Bodybuilder.

[trainharder]

i think a bodybuilder is someone who works to build his or her overall appearance that means all body parts equally

as oppossed to many guys at the gym who focus on chest and strength.

i would class those guys as powerlifters. if you dont train legs or back or shoulders arms as well your not a bodybuilder.

i dont like being asked if im a bodybuilder i prefer to think of myself as just someone who wants to get in better shape as like some of you say i would prefer to be called a bodybuilder when i walk down the street and block out the sun with my shoulders.like that will ever happen

[biggurl27]

Just read a cool quote "if you have to tell people you are a bodybuilder, then you are not"

[Luigi]

Just read a cool quote "if you have to tell people you are a bodybuilder, then you are not"

so the fact your pointing out your a bodybuilder on the left over there < < means your not ??

[biggurl27]

Hey Luigi, just because not everybody sees things the same way as I do doesn't mean that you are wrong or a bad person.We can't all be perfect.

[1day]

Just read a cool quote "if you have to tell people you are a bodybuilder, then you are not"

shirt/singlet on or off? cus with covering, u wudnt pick alot of people as bbers,exspecaily wen u at a comp and all these litle dudes/chicks walking round with tanned faces, half the time they look like a giant up on stage if there riped enuf.

[Grego]

Just read a cool quote "if you have to tell people you are a bodybuilder, then you are not"

shirt/singlet on or off? cus with covering, u wudnt pick alot of people as bbers,exspecaily wen u at a comp and all these litle dudes/chicks walking round with tanned faces, half the time they look like a giant up on stage if there riped enuf.

I agree. Anyone seen Stan "The Man" back stage with his shirt on? Then, geeeeezzzzz! When it comes off! :clap:

I voted you have to compete, but I guess if you are training to compete it's close enough, but how many say compete yet don't? Each to their own, you can't be pushed into it.

"Just because you can pass a ball in the weekends, doesn't make you an All Black" (although who in their right mind would want to be right now?? :pfft: )

Grego

[poos_n_wees]

I don't classify myself as one, even though I train regularly, have competed before and have also gone through cutting/bulking cycles.

The only time I can say I'm a bodybuilder without feeling ghey is during a bodybuilding show when I'm competing

[Specter]

Just read a cool quote "if you have to tell people you are a bodybuilder, then you are not"

shirt/singlet on or off? cus with covering, u wudnt pick alot of people as bbers,exspecaily wen u at a comp and all these litle dudes/chicks walking round with tanned faces, half the time they look like a giant up on stage if there riped enuf.

I agree. Anyone seen Stan "The Man" back stage with his shirt on? Then, geeeeezzzzz! When it comes off! :clap:

I voted you have to compete, but I guess if you are training to compete it's close enough, but how many say compete yet don't? Each to their own, you can't be pushed into it.

"Just because you can pass a ball in the weekends, doesn't make you an All Black" (although who in their right mind would want to be right now?? :pfft: )

Grego

Ummm..no it doesnt make you a all black...it may make you a rugby player though... :roll: