Has anyone else seen pro bodybuilders in person in their posing gear and was disgusted?

[gorillahung]

I remember going to the Arnold Classic Expo and seeing some top pros and amateurs in person and honestly found them disgusting. Things like stretch marks (all over the body) don't show in magazine pictures. (For young folks, magazines were paper versions of websites). Add the stretch marks to the constant smell of protein farts and I found it nasty.

 

[muskate]

Lol it's true. 99.999% of magazine photos are photo shopped to hide blemishes, pimples etc.

I remember thinking the same thing and being somewhat shocked when I met a lot of the pro bodybuilders in person at the Olympia. Their skin, whites of their eyes, hair, it all looked terrible. Kind of just reiterates the fact that this isn't the healthiest sport to actually participate in...

 

[gorillahung]

You mentioned the pimples. I forgot to mention the acne scars. I've been a competitive powerlifter but never wanted to be a bodybuilder because I knew what it took to actually step on the competitive stage.

 

[stevesmi]

the last one i saw the girl i was with was scared to go near him cause he looked like some sort of mutant.

i give them all the credit in the world for looking like that, but most people find it scary or 'disgusting' as you put it.

 

[Lev Butlerov]

This is yet another confirmation of the fact that everything is good in moderation, and modern bodybuilding has long gone past any sort of moderation. All in all, it is a good sport, as long as you don't go to the Dorian Yates kind of extremes.

 

[gorillahung]

This is yet another confirmation of the fact that everything is good in moderation, and modern bodybuilding has long gone past any sort of moderation. All in all, it is a good sport, as long as you don't go to the Dorian Yates kind of extremes.

Yes, bodybuilding is definitely a sport of excess.

 

[Jay Scott]

Lol it's true. 99.999% of magazine photos are photo shopped to hide blemishes, pimples etc.

I remember thinking the same thing and being somewhat shocked when I met a lot of the pro bodybuilders in person at the Olympia. Their skin, whites of their eyes, hair, it all looked terrible. Kind of just reiterates the fact that this isn't the healthiest sport to actually participate in...

I also noticed that some bodybuilders' eyes are yellow tinted completely

 

[gorillahung]

Doesn't having yellow eyes indicate possible jaundice?

 

[MasonicBodybuilder]

The skin is definitely one of the first things I noticed as well. It looks dry and just plain nasty. A lot of these guys do not look healthy at all.

 

[JaylovesDbol]

Rich P... just my 2 cents. About as bad as it gets.