The life of a bodybuilder is so structured, we forget about life’s simple pleasures.

[THE BOUNCER]

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[panerai]

Well, I have to admit, I was wrong. Bodybuilding is and always was kind of sport were someone has to push himself to the limit, even at cost of health.
I agree, preparing for the show is tough experience.
But, on the other hand, one doesn't prepare for the show year around, some, even top guys don't even compete every year.
Comparing sports, I was thinking about hokey, for example.
You know, in Russia if child is older then 6 he practically has no chances to be top player. And starting that age, those kids train as hard as grown man, for many years before they make it. Basically, they give up their childhoud and teenage years. That's a lot of sacrifice, IMO. Same applies to gymnasts, and some other few sports.
Marathon and triatlon are pretty fukked up storts, and they also have practically no off season.
Mountaine climbing took so many lives you can't even compare it to any other sport.
It is hard to compare sports, each has something in it.
And, my first statement about bb was off, I have to take it back.

 

[rippedchef]

thanks panaeri

nice to see some integrity on the board!-and no I'm no tough guy-just a 38yr old chef with a wife and 2 kids just getting into the game(10 weeks out from my 2nd show)-so I can only imagine the pain and stress felt by Quad and Bouncer competing at the national level.I have the utmost respect for those guys!I also apologize for being snippy-it ain't easy being cordial on 30gm carbs ED-

 

[shreddedmass]

penarai lol im Russian and complitly not true that inRussia if u dont start training till 6 then u have no chanse of being pro. if u good u good dont m atter when u started!!!!! i ihad pro soccer friends, pro hockey friends, pro gymnists, wreslter, and some others back in Russia and they did not start at 6!!!!!! i hanged around with them most of them time and let me tell u how they all train, they sleep as long as they want they dont get up to eat 10meals a day, after they get up they eat nice meal, have some coffe , chill watch tv, then they go to practise for 2-3hours after that 30min of weight training and thats it bro!!!!!!! they done for the day!!!!! now they can go out eat anything they want!! oh ya u say that bodybuilders use other drugs besides juice lol who dosent in other sports, how many times u hear in basketball or other sports, this guy or that guy been cought with this or that, people are people no matter what sport they in. bro by the way u talk to any other athlete from other sports they even said it on tv that they admire bodybuilders alot because of how much hard work, specialy with diet they have to put in into the show, and thats coming from pros themselfs!!!!!! what other athlete when doing a show, goes to sleep hungry , wakes up hungry and feels hungry for 3-4 freaking months, and walks around like zombie with no energy?? u say that not all pros compite in alot of shows but do u have any idea how hard it is to do just one show, why wont u freaking do it and then start writing how much of j/k it is. by the way when u wrote your remark u said BB is ajoke!!! u said bbs are fat slubs in offseasson hey listen u do stay at 4% for few months see how u feel, u are superman right u can stay at 4% yourself for hole year right? those bodybuilders have a right to be fat slubs if they want too from all the dieting they did for show. u say bbs just pop some juice eat whatever they want stay lean for show and grow cause of juice lol u so freaking ignorent. You can take all the drugs in world but u will never ever look like them without hard ass diet and hard work. before u say that why wont u take those grugs eat whatever u want everyday like u say they do and will see if u will look just like them after few months , i dont think so, and by the way bro every single other sport out there they all take juice!!!!!! so dont think bbs have it east lol cause they take juice, all oher pro athletes juice too , gymnists, runners, soccer players , all sports!!!! so i could say same thing about them too!!!! thing is u should of never wrote what u wrote if u never compite and u not bodybuilder yourself! its jsut so funny how guy who probably dont compite at nothing sits around on his azz and just has nerves to say whats hard and whats not

 

[Dr.M]

Good post. I myself have many hobbies, so I spread myself thin in a way. Dabble in many things, expert at nothing. To be the best at anything though, single-mindedness definately has to be there, everyone has to make the decision if its worth it to them or not.

 

[Ingram]

Bumping a good read!

 

[little chris]

I think bodybuilding is one of the hardest sports to compete in and definatly takes the most discipline. But bodybuilding is a sport most people start in their early teens, where as sports like tennis you a pro at 16, most hockey players start skating at 4-5 yrs old!, football has alot of wear and tear on your body and your lucky to play at 30 (prob why there's only 16 games). But bodbuilding is a 24-7-365 job. Its almost hard to enjoy cause from the minute you wake to the minute you go to sleep your bodybuilding, even when your not training. Hell, training is the easy part, the other 60-70% is dieting. People outside BB don't understand what we go through to look the way we do.

 

[sermon_of_crockery]

I'm glad panerai got atraightnened out. I know several BBers who have never competed and never will compete who have more discipline than the average NFLer.

 

[wizardnor]

Bodybuilding is a joke comparing to how much other sports take out of personal life, or normal life..everything in life has a price mark on it...

agreed i am taking time off this summer for & my wife