Do you powerlifters find pretty boy bodybuilders annoying?

[ZZuluZ]

Brian, seems to me, then, like simply a matter of definitions and terminology.

A powerlifter is someone who trains like a powerlifter. At least for me. I don't have extra respect for people who compete. If you say you bench 450, then I believe you, and you've earned my respect right away, because you know your stuff. I could care less whether or not you've entered the latest meet or not.

In fact, if you've done your research and you're dedicated but you squat 100 pounds you still have my respect.

I guess I'm just abiding by a false definition. Technically, most people would be weight lifters then. However, I've often found it more appropriate to define a noun by the adjectives that qualify it.

Cheers,

-Zulu

 

[powerlifterjay]

First off my l;ast post was fun. Like i said in my number 1 we all get along were i am from. And there some dudes i dont like in my gym but its not because of the way we train.

Cubanito yes you fall into that catigory but your not cocky walking around telling people to look at me. I am a BB! Powerlifters are fat and ugly! You see my point?

As far as competeing goes. Its more important for a BB who claims he is one to have competetd before people take himseriously. Dieting and posing and stage presence is a huge roll in the term BB!

Powerlifting kinda of the same. Some people don tcare what you lift in the gym. It sdifferent cause your in your ellement. Hell i lift more in my gym on my equipment , at the time i train. But i do respect people i see in the gym make a big lift. And if they dont compete i dont care either. But i know guys who you can tell them about your training and mention a lift that its more then theres, they WILL not believe you , even if you have video proof, because in order for the lift to sink in there head it must be done at a meet. And hell a meet that there at, so if your squat is high they can say ..."well it was high though". Some powerlifters you can not make happy, and powerlifting has as many assholes in it as BB. So yes you want (everyones) respect do it in a meet. That way no one can say shit. They can kiss your ass!

 

[110%]

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.

have u ever came across this kind of person, or just created an image in your mind and labeled it? i dont think that description sounds like a bodybuilder just doing cables, not bulking, not using free weights, not a bodybuilder. the title should say do you find "pretty boys" annoying if that is waht you meant.

 

[Exodus]

i think i have the cool advantage to this discussion because i have worked out both ways.

i am a competitive bodybuilder...... i have entered 3 shows with a 29 inch waist and a 45 inch chest.......... and i got beat by everybody every time i entered one.

thing is...... i got tired of being small......... the weider principals..... the rep after rep after rep nonsense got old.

Arnold was a powerlifter first, so was Ronnie Coleman????

"maybe there is something too it then?"... i thought

so then i did some research and did somethings and discovered this little thing called westside............ and i am in love.

b fold knows how much i am itching to compete...... but since i have not done it yet......... i say i am powerlifting...... and not a powerlifter........

bodybuilders who compete or who dont compete are cool....... as long as the give their all in the gym for the right reason....... and that is ultimately what we all desire.

to be better than we were yesterday.

X

 

[b fold the truth]

Very well said my friend...very very well said.

B True

 

[Aussie Juga naught]

have u ever came across this kind of person, or just created an image in your mind and labeled it? i dont think that description sounds like a bodybuilder just doing cables, not bulking, not using free weights, not a bodybuilder. the title should say do you find "pretty boys" annoying if that is waht you meant.

Ok i dont know how it is in the u.s.a but here in australia our Gyms are being taken over by these type of people. They are the pretty boys, who are calling them selves bodybuilders so I call them "pretty boy bodybuilders"

 

[Lguy00]

the only people i find annoying at the gym are the people that take forever with their sets and will not let anyone work in with them between their sets.

 

[Cubanito17]

Hey Jay thanks but what can I say I'm young and small and I really don't feel like lifting in a huge weight class, plus shit i'm stil trying to gain weight I just can't put it on. Today lets see what my diet was. I woke up at 11(no school for me today) then I ate 1/3 of Mrs. Smith's french silk pie then 2 hours after I ate a pack of crackers with cheese and lifted after that I ate wendy's 2 chicken sandwiches and a 1/4 double stack burger(whatever) with biggie fries and a frosty after that 3 hours I ate a sandwich with cold cuts(my protein for the day) then 3 hours later I ate another piece of pie and about 45 minutes ago I ate another piece of pie. DUDE I can't gain weight or size I'm trying to eat all this shit to bulk up. I've tried weight gainers they don't do shit for me plus the taste gets annoying I figured McDonalds or Burger King or Wendys woulda been my weight gainer(strength). Well getting back to this subject Brain I havn't competed yet I have in high school but that is with pause bench and clean&jerks. I will be competing this Saturday in ST PETE, so what your trying to tell me is since up to now I'm not a powerlifter although i train like one and my GOAL is to get stronger no matter what, I don't really care about physique as long as i'm in good health, but until I compete Saturday I can't call myself a powerlifter???

 

[ZZuluZ]

Eating pie and McDonald's doesn't seem all that good to me. How about some Tuna, some peanut butter, some steak, some eggs?


JMHO

-Zulu

 

[brianmincher]

Cubanito, you are most definately a powerlifter. You compete in meets, you train for meets. What would make you think you are not a powerlifter. Benching and clean and jerks just happen to be the events you are competing in. What is wrong with that?

I don't think you understood the point I was making before. Competing is what is important. It does not matter whether it is in a high school meet, an IPA meet, APA, WABDL, none of that matters. Competition, and being willing to lay it on the line is what is important.

B