Do Pro BB'ers LIE about their weight?

[wyst]

yep... when i'm 130 and a size 4 still i'm gonna be spouting that info!

Heh. I've actually been a 130-lb size 4. But I didn't have muscles like that...

Wyst

PS: Heya Smalls!

 

[NY Muscle]

you are all forgetting, how many times u seen that unbelievable guy or girl in the gym, you think he/she weighs like SOOOO much, then they tell you and you are SHOCKED its called low body fat and great muscle development.

none of you would be able to guess my weight in my pics...especially my avatar pic...guranteed.


i remember the 1st time i realized this phenominon...i was in college long time ago..and this dude was big and SHREDDED, musta had 19 inch arms, i asked him how much he weighed like 220, he said no 185! i almost flipped.

 

[Gladiola]

you are all forgetting, how many times u seen that unbelievable guy or girl in the gym, you think he/she weighs like SOOOO much, then they tell you and you are SHOCKED

Thanks for telling me what I don't know for like the millionth time.... Oh, and what I'm thinking & what I'm forgetting...

 

[NY Muscle]

Thanks for telling me what I don't know for like the millionth time.... Oh, and what I'm thinking & what I'm forgetting...

 

[MS]

We are all entitled to brag about our weights (whether it's a big number or a tiny number), but the true measure of a bodybuilder is the weight that they compete at when completely stage ready. Any other number is just so much fluid, fat and hot air. Who cares what the scales say anyway.....well that's what we advise women on other helpful threads. It's how you look. If you can look as good as your idol and weigh 20lbs more or 20lbs less than them, then who really cares. The only time I know where weight makes an appreciable difference is in NPC physique comps, or powerlifting.

 

[kjluvi]

i dont care how much they weigh,,,, i just want to know how the hell the look like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i try and i try,,but i dont look anything like them

Massive amounts of airbrushing.


A good photo editor could take any guy on here with 12-15% BF and make him look like a guy with 4-5% BF in under in a couple of hours with Photoshop.

 

[newgirl-chargeback]

Wow this is a fairly old thread...but VDL -- I will say that I often see the weights posted (NOT of contest pics) but of magazine shoots and have to gag everytime I see the stats ... knowing full well that they are much more than they say they are.

I quickly learned to not to believe everything I read...and since my husband HAD been in the industry for a short time, it is not different than these women spewing it is all about eating well -- and the "I have never considered steriods NOR plastic surgery to get where I am".

He gets extremely annoyed when I naively beleive that these idols I have are all 100% natural. What are they going to publish?

 

[JJFigure]

You know, it's not the posted weights that annoy me with some of these women - it's their published routines. In this month's Oxygen, there's another fitness competitor who only lifts with 5 and 10 lb. dumbbells and states "it's a big misconception you have to train heavy to develop a tight, lean physique."

This type of comment just pisses me off - a lot of women out there really do believe this stuff, then get frustrated and give up when they don't accomplish the results they see in the mags.

Anyway - that's my rant for the day.

BTW - the last picture VDL posted is an awesome lady from PA - she does get really tight and lean at contest, and I believe her posted weight. Onstage and in photos, she looks larger than she is - she just gets so cut up she looks immense.

She's also one of the nicest people you could hope to meet.

 

[newgirl-chargeback]

JJ -- that annoys me as well...I am not sure why they do this...it just is counter productive.