Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below You guys are describing weight trainers. You are a bodybuilder when you decide to step on stage and compete. A bodybuilder is someone who competes in bodybuilding contests. Everyone else are people who live a healthy lifestyle to better themselves physically. I call them weighttrainers.
When can you call yourself a bodybuilder?
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Christianlifter
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Anybody who has made a committment to build their body through exercise. I would call a bodybuilder. Doesnt matter what anybody thinks, doesnt matter if you compete professionally or not. Its a heart issue. Thats my take anyway.
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Hugh Gellatts
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Dunno about suddenly "becoming" a bodybuilder.... What I do know is that when I am lazy and get fat I tell people I am a powerlifter
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STORM SHADOW
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WRONG WRONG WRONG FUCKING WRONG......THERE WE GO WITH THE PREMADONA EGOS AGAIN.
YOU ARE A BODY BUILDER WHENEVER THE FUCK YOU DECIDE TO MAKE A LIFESTYLE CHANGE TO
B U I L D YOUR BODY
B O D Y B U I L D I N G
Now if you decided to step on stage........you are a.........watch carefully.......I'll only spell this once for the slow people that give BB a bad name of all muscle no brain......duhhhhhh which way did he go......which way did he go?
C O M P E T I T I V E B O D Y B U I L D E R
Now.....let's say it together class.......all at once.......Competitive Body Builder
And class....remember what we call a person who makes the life style change to enhance his/her physique?
ANS: That's right class.........very good.....Body Builder.
Ok Class.....next weeks assignment.......we will discuss Physical Fitness from 7,000 B.C. Mesopotamia to Present.
Take Care Peeps
YOU ARE A BODY BUILDER WHENEVER THE FUCK YOU DECIDE TO MAKE A LIFESTYLE CHANGE TO
B U I L D YOUR BODY
B O D Y B U I L D I N G
Now if you decided to step on stage........you are a.........watch carefully.......I'll only spell this once for the slow people that give BB a bad name of all muscle no brain......duhhhhhh which way did he go......which way did he go?
C O M P E T I T I V E B O D Y B U I L D E R
Now.....let's say it together class.......all at once.......Competitive Body Builder
And class....remember what we call a person who makes the life style change to enhance his/her physique?
ANS: That's right class.........very good.....Body Builder.
Ok Class.....next weeks assignment.......we will discuss Physical Fitness from 7,000 B.C. Mesopotamia to Present.
Take Care Peeps
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Whenever the bodybuilding lifestyle becomes second nature to the extent that your whole life revolves around the sport and you find that the sacrifices that are necessary to keep the physique you worked so hard to achieve no longer seem like sacrifices. I know loads of people who train with weights but they are not defined or are just plain fat, they have no symmetry and like some pretend BB's they neglect certain bodyparts that is why they are not "BODY"builders. Not everyone wants to compete - I'm sure you've seen loads of people give reasons for why they bodybuild - pussy , health or the discipline it gives you but everybody will say that the main reason that they do it is for themselves - in short you get bit by the bug and you stay bit!
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Some pro athletes like football players come pretty close to being built like bodybuilders - does this make them bodybuilders?
For all intents and purposes, they are very close to bodybuilders.
But ultimately they probably aren't because they constantly risk injury and are measured on toughness and results as opposed to physique. You aren't going to be much of a "bodybuilder" if you're hammering your bones and joints with the daily demands of pro sports.
So in the end bodybuilding is a very specific thing. I like to think of myself as moving towards "bodybuilder type" diet and "bodybuilder style" training (not the same as the weight training I used to do when starting out).
At 5'8" 188 lbs I can't be called a bodybuilder, but if I followed this type of diet and training with a couple more cycles, at 210 lbs and ripped there would be no other choice but to say "this is a bodybuilder."
In the end it's obvious a bodybuilder type regimen is an ideal. The best ones at it combined with drugs and genetics actually win contests. Others are striving for the ideal.
But 99.9% of people don't even strive for this. These are "weight trainers" at best.
For all intents and purposes, they are very close to bodybuilders.
But ultimately they probably aren't because they constantly risk injury and are measured on toughness and results as opposed to physique. You aren't going to be much of a "bodybuilder" if you're hammering your bones and joints with the daily demands of pro sports.
So in the end bodybuilding is a very specific thing. I like to think of myself as moving towards "bodybuilder type" diet and "bodybuilder style" training (not the same as the weight training I used to do when starting out).
At 5'8" 188 lbs I can't be called a bodybuilder, but if I followed this type of diet and training with a couple more cycles, at 210 lbs and ripped there would be no other choice but to say "this is a bodybuilder."
In the end it's obvious a bodybuilder type regimen is an ideal. The best ones at it combined with drugs and genetics actually win contests. Others are striving for the ideal.
But 99.9% of people don't even strive for this. These are "weight trainers" at best.
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STORM SHADOW
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Ok.....I guess I'm the only one in here with College & married to an English Major whom is a walking dictionary.
Weight Train: General Term, means almost anything. In our language if we said that to a person....it's so general that it would be followed up by a question. When you answer a question that causes another question....it's poor english. So be specific.......if a person answers a question with:
"yaw...I weight train so that I'm not a girly man"
the person questioned would require further inquiry.
The next question would be:
"What kind of weight training do you do?"
Ans:
"I work on physique/health etc"
Inquisitor:
"Oh.....you build your body....you are a Body Builder....nice".
Or the questioned person could have said:
"I train for strength".
Inquisitor:
"Oh....you must be a power lifter....cool".
Throw in the word Competitive into any of the terms.....powerlifter or bodybuilder or anything thing else.........it changes the meaning again.
Take Care Peeps
Weight Train: General Term, means almost anything. In our language if we said that to a person....it's so general that it would be followed up by a question. When you answer a question that causes another question....it's poor english. So be specific.......if a person answers a question with:
"yaw...I weight train so that I'm not a girly man"
the person questioned would require further inquiry.
The next question would be:
"What kind of weight training do you do?"
Ans:
"I work on physique/health etc"
Inquisitor:
"Oh.....you build your body....you are a Body Builder....nice".
Or the questioned person could have said:
"I train for strength".
Inquisitor:
"Oh....you must be a power lifter....cool".
Throw in the word Competitive into any of the terms.....powerlifter or bodybuilder or anything thing else.........it changes the meaning again.
Take Care Peeps
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