Body Building Vs a Social Life

[AussieTank]

Body Building Vs a Social Life

Ok Muscle heads how many of you feel like your social life has gone down the drain since your quest to become the next Arnold began? Let me begin this article by saying that it doesn’t have to be that way, that is you can still build an outstanding physique and have a fun and healthy life on top of that.

First of all I want to break down what it takes to become Mr Olympia before you continue your quest to one day get up on stage with the best in the world for the ultimate crown in bodybuilding. It takes a life of:
· Dedication
· Persistence
· Some crazy arse genetics
· An almost prefect diet day in day out
· An almost perfect sleeping pattern
· An almost perfect training pattern

After reading the above and saying to your self “I’m ready I can handle all that”, good I admire you, but are you willing to pump your self full of life threatening drugs and put up with all the side effects that come along with the drugs and ultimately have an early death to be the best in the sport?

If you still answer yes to all the above well although I think you’re crazy I wish you all the best with your journey and all the best for life.

For the 90% of you out there that answered no to any of or all the above you are in the same boat as me. This means we can still go on and have a very healthy social life and continue to make awesome gains in the gym. Now obviously there are guys out there that are much more dedicated to this sport than me and you and that’s nothing to be ashamed off because lets face it the only reasons you got into bodybuilding was for girls or some sort of sports performance. So lets not lose sight of what we first started the sport of bodybuilding for. A classic example of this is: Well the only reason I started using weight was to impress the chicks but I got so caught up with my time in the gym and the addictive effect of bodybuilding that I had no time to talk to chicks let alone be sleeping with them ha-ha I had become Teenage Mr Sydney in two years of training but my chick count went from a super high to a market crash and had hit an all time low due to the dedication I had given to the sport. I would see my self thinking can’t go to that party up the road with all my mates because there will be alcohol there and what about my tin of tuna that I need to consume every hour “I better stay at home so I don’t miss meals and my 10 hours sleep”. Does this sound a bit like you at the moment? Are you sacrificing friends and a bag full of fun for the competitive side of bodybuilding? You really got to ask your self is it all worth it?

Bodybuilding doesn’t have to be competitive and can be enjoyed by the young to the very old, as it is a very healthy lifestyle that builds self-respect and image.

This article by all means is not to turn people off bodybuilding simple to make people think of what their intentions are with the sport, personally I body build to have a good looking and healthy body. Now I don’t plan to become |Mr Olympia I simply don’t have the genetics to accomplish such a goal but I do plan to become a very healthy and respectable bodybuilder even if its only in my eyes and that to me is more than becoming some juiced up freak of nature.

Now I know there is no better feeling than pushing out a personal best on the bench press making the chest scream in agony as you crush the muscle fibres with pleasure but as much as I enjoy that feeling I also enjoy the feeling of sitting down with a few of my best mates with a few icy cold beers and bag of potato chips and watching the football and talking about what girls we scored within the previous week. Call me a wimp but I’m not willing to give up time with my girl friend and best mates for time in the gym, I’m not willing to live a life of picking and choosing everything I eat and what time it is eaten, read every label on every thing I eat making sure I don’t exceed my daily calories and never getting less than 9 hours sleep a night.

What I’m saying is people can still make great results in the gym without being an obsessive bodybuilder as long as your training hard and eating enough protein you will continue to make muscle gains. You must have time to enjoy other things in life, so go out and eat some KFC, drink a few beers, stay up late, masturbate, have sex (I honestly know people who hold back from this for the sake of muscle growth) and damm well enjoy your life. As we all know you only get one.

Until next time
AussieTank
Scott Diedrichs

[fupafighter2]

im sorry i gotta disagree with ur article...perhaps in serious times of pre contest i can see social life deprivation but overall u can have a social life and bb'd fine... Arnie had a fine social life and got tons of pussy....u have to learn how to implement bbing into ur social life if u go to a party throw a protein bar in ur pocket or pack some healthy sanwichs with baked chips n head out to the beach.... depressing urself only hurts ur gains

[Patrice_Lumumba]

I liked the article, I felt I could relate to it alot.

[Patfan]

I realize this was posted awhile ago, but I thought it was a good read. I don't pig out on KFC, but I do go out every couple weekends for a few drinks (with plenty of water in between). After working your butt off all week, you deserve it.

[imperfectly_lou]

Great article. I could definitely relate.

PS AussieTank - I was at the NSW Naturals in Castle Hill, i take it that was the competition you won? If so, you were looking fantastic and all your hard work definitely paid off.

[Plop]

decent article....i can understand what you are saying. I am not a obbsessive bodybuilder though

[beerman_420]

nice article!!!

[nickk23]

yeah i can relate. but im glad ive got friends to call me an arsehole and get me out else id miss out on all the fun. I hate to knowingly affect my gains, but everytime ive had a night out I don't regret it. In fact, it makes me much eager to be strict on my training days.

[hulkamania]

the gym is all i got i have no social life and i will do anything to get to be the best i wish i could have a social life but its to stress full i really dont care as much as building my body and some may think its sad that that is all you live for but at least i have something to live for some of these people that dont body build or wanna be the best or what ever they always ask me what i live for i tell them they say something like this" well thats kinda sad why is that all you care about dont you wanna have a good carrier " or dont you wanna get married and have kids" the answer to thier question is its not sad im sorda happy every now and then and no i do not want to have kids they will either be misserable or hate me or whatever i dont need that and sometimes when they ask me i answer them with a question what do you live for they sometimes cant aswer me sometimes they say for their kids when they say their kids i say ow could you live for your kids their only kids a few years that the most stupid thingive ever heard having kids for your own happiness and beating them when they dis obey they are humans not property and not yours you may have concieved them but that dosent mean the kid is the same as some man made shoe but anyway the gym is my life bodybuilding is my life it sounds stupid and it is if you think about it any purpos a person feels they live for is stupid to be honest i wish i were never born becaause life sucks and that the bottom line i hate my parents i wish some rihno jabs it horn up their asses