Do you powerlifters find pretty boy bodybuilders annoying?

[110%]

this hole conversation is fucken retarded. if you don't like someone because they are interested in doing something to there body or have different goals than you and still work just as hard just for something else your ignorant and jelious. this goes out to everyone. in my opinion if you see a guy or a girl in a gym busting their ass for any type of goal, good for them and they should be proud of what they are doing. these people aren't sitting around verbally abusing people but they are the ones in the gym putting up the big weight and not making excuses. give me good karma give me bad karma i don't give a fuck. this conversation is rediculous

i sooo totally agree with you, as i said earlier i dont consider myself a bodybuilder in above post, but i dont consider myselft a wannabe, i dont want to be 250 lbs way up there, i dont want to do steroids or any of that, i have appreciation and lots of it for what i do, since when is wanting to not be overweight (by not competing, but EnjoyinG training and dieting and the hobby you have) being a pretty boy annoying wannabe, i think you guys should lighten up, so you only can go to the gym if you are a competitive bodybuilder or powerlifter, otherwise you are annoying. earlier when cubanito said he loves this and he loves thinking about his powerlifting routines and ocming on here, it is his absolute hobby, i knew exactly how he felt. i dont consider myself a competitive bodybuilder, but i dont consider myself an annoying wannabe and i have appreciation for what disciplie i maintain.

 

[b fold the truth]

I never used the word annoying. Never.

It just burns my buns to see a grown man who never makes any progress, thinks that he is a bodybuilder, ripped all year long at 6'2" 190, sipping Designer Protien, and talking smack about this and that. Just compete.

Plain and simple, I support and encourage anyone who competes. Without competition the sport(s) is not fun.

Most of the actual bodybuilders that I know (250+) are great guys. The little guys I see in the gym doing flyes till their eyes pop out...I respect a lot too. I just hate it when someone calls themselves a bodybuilder when they are not.

"No, I don't actually work for the fire dept, but I'm a fireman."

B True

 

[110%]

b fold i agree with you on that, they should not be talking a bunch of smack or talking up their ego if they dont compete, and yes if they themselves, call themself a bodybuilder, then they should comete.

 

[Aussie Juga naught]

wow, i got a fair few replies...good. Ok what I meant when i said "pretty boy bodybuilders" are the ones that allways have to have a group of people around them, bring there girlfriends to the gym to show off there cable rutine, hardly ever use free weights, are allways talking and annoying people, are allways ripped because god forbid they loose there abs, dont train seriously, and only go to the gym not to get big but to look good in togs. (swimmers) And than if thats not eniough look down on big mother fuckers who push the big weights because in there eyes there fat, or lazy because there not ripped.

 

[Cubanito17]

I don't recall using the word annoying myself the ones I find annoying are the ones that walk around with their shirts off and stay with a 6-pack year around b/c they don't want to gain weight and as soon as they see there body puts on 1lb they're running that same day or the very next b/c they might not be able to see their abs for 5 minutes. Then the ones that think they're hard asses and try dimming the lights to show off to their g/f's and they think there's no point of lifting for so much weight(power) if you don't look good. Those are the ones I was refering too. the rest of them that compete I know they go through hell not personally but I personally know 1998 I think MR FLORIDA he trains at Golds Gym in Stuart here and he doesn't stay with a 6-pack year round.

 

[brianmincher]

Screw the 6-pack. I have a keg.

 

[Cubanito17]

HELL YEA brain speaks again

 

[ZZuluZ]

b fold, I have great respect for the things you say, because I know you know your stuff and you lift some damn heavy poundages....

However, I just wanna say that competition is not inherent to being a 'powerlifter' or a 'bodybuilder'. Not by my definition. It's not a job like being a fireman. It's a hobby. I don't see the difference between someone benching 500 at his gym and who never competes and one who does. Some people lift for their OWN well being, not to go to meets or to impress others.

Just My Humble Opinion,

-Zulu

 

[brianmincher]

I beg to differ Zzulu,

If you train with a bodybuilder style program, but do not compete, that does not make you a bad person, but it also does not make you a bodybuilder. It makes you a "weight trainer".

Nothing wrong with that, but unless you compete in a sport, I don't think you can claim that sport. Now this is just my opinion, but I don't think you can call yourself a powerlifter, even if you have a 500 bench, unless you have the sack to lay it on the line in competition.

I could not call myself a basketball player if I never played in a game. This is the same thing. People who compete in bodybuilding or powerlifting are bodybuilders or powerlifters. People who don't compete, are weight trainers. I apply this same logic to myself. Before I found the light and the truth and became a powerlifter, I was still a gym rat. I have been lifting in some form or another since I was 18 years old. I had a friend in college, who was also a training partner, who referred to me as a bodybuilder. I quickly straightened him out, and explained that I was not a bodybuilder. His response was that I looked like a bodybuilder, and at the ripe old age of 20, I told him that bodybuilders get on stage, and I did not.

I respect you ZZulu, and this is not a flame in the least. But there is a difference between someone who competes and someone who does not.

B

 

[Prometheus]

As long as someone shows respect, they don't bother me. If they want to do 50 rep sets of 10 lb. concentration curls all day, good for them. Its the obnoxious ones that piss me off - the backstreet-boy types standing around in packs gossiping and blocking the hallways, the arrogant bastards who go out of their way to make a racket slamming 5 lb. plates on the bar and dropping dumbells to get attention and put on a big show, etc. But I guess their dues keep the gyms open, so they might be good for something.