i dont get the whole "your not a bodybuilder unless you compete"

[knicksrbake]

i dont agree with it. if a guy is 250 pounds and 5%bf and never competed, he is still a bodybuilder.

[FAN0FdaSport]

i know people who compete and dont call themselves bbers

[ZBlacktt]

Not sure anyone should really get to wrapped up about this. I mean everyone is a bodybuilder to me. There's competitive bodybuilders and lifestyle bodybuilders. You've got your gym rats, weightlifters, strength trainers, etc.

[FAN0FdaSport]

Not sure anyone should really get to wrapped up about this. I mean everyone is a bodybuilder to me. There's competitive bodybuilders and lifestyle bodybuilders. You've got your gym rats, weightlifters, strength trainers, etc.

agreed, its whatever you want it to be as long you stick to it

[NVious]

Who cares?

As if once you're a "bodybuilder" you get some secret club card at Costco.

If you feel like one, that's all that matters.

[flangmasterj]

Yeah I'm rooting for Cedric too.

[DPNZ]

Being a "bodybuilder" seems to be a badge of honour, or status symbol for some people.

It's just a definition of an action. If you're building up your body, you're bodybuilding.

Right?

[bartosh]

Being a "bodybuilder" seems to be a badge of honour, or status symbol for some people.

It's just a definition of an action. If you're building up your body, you're bodybuilding.

Right?

yup

i see it this way: bodybuilder =/= competitive bodybuilder. I build my body at the gym. i'm not a competitive bodybuilder though.

[203mh]

Personally I say anyone who dedicates themselves to nutrition, training, whatever else it takes is a bodybuilder, be it competitively or recreationally

[2276]

Dr. Frankenstein was a BodyBuilder

[Deano87]

your

[Lynch93]

Yeah I'm rooting for Cedric too.

this

[Backbrah]

[CbassFL]

Who cares?

As if once you're a "bodybuilder" you get some secret club card at Costco.

If you feel like one, that's all that matters.

Wait, you don't?
I thought that was how bodybuilders paid for their food during their bulking diets?

[Mr_Aryze]

You're only one if you lift heavy-ass weight.

[Jenslyn17]

Two ways to look at it.

1: You 'bodybuild'--youworkout with weights to increase the size of your muscles. You're a bodybuilder.

2: Your life needs to revolve around it. I think this is why calling the average fit dude a bodybuilder feels kinda off. Like you wouldn't speak of someone as a 'runner' if he didn't do it at a very serious, competitive level

[RoroCwalker]

There is a distinct difference between competitive bodybuilders and people who just happen to train for fitness or looks. And also, no anyone that isn't a competitive bodybuilder is 5% BF and not competing. Most are around 8-12%.
The mindset is much different. I wouldn't consider a non-competitive bodybuilder a ''bodybuilder'', I know it doesn't make sense grammatically but you get the point.
Also..being a ''bodybuilder'' is a lifestyle, thus meaning someone who works out with no ambition doesn't really make him a bodybuilder...anyone can do a clean bulk without ever having to diet down to low BF%.

[littlearm]

It's just a definition of an action. If you're building up your body, you're bodybuilding.

Right?

Well, if we're splitting hairs I'm gonna say no. There's a difference between a body builder and a bodybuilder.

A body builder could be a football player trying to add some mass, or someone trying to get in better shape for the summer.

A bodybuilder is someone who commits to a complete lifestyle change for the purpose of sculpting and balancing his/her body specifically for visual appeal, focusing on details of the physique rather than just overall fitness.

[ZBlacktt]

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Was watching video, then at 1:25 it was like daaaamn!

[ZBlacktt]

Who cares?

As if once you're a "bodybuilder" you get some secret club card at Costco.

If you feel like one, that's all that matters.

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[sexnews]

^^ From which dvd is this? Ronnie looks massive!

[cameroncallaghan]

I've got Body by Jake. So technically, somebody else built my body.

[Shredthetics]

i dont agree with it. if a guy is 250 pounds and 5%bf and never competed, he is still a bodybuilder.

That would be a bodybuilding enthusiast imo.

As if once you're a "bodybuilder" you get some secret club card at Costco.

Brb NPC Card & Pro Cards apparently are imaginary.


Imho
Bodybuilders- Competes/have competed.
Bodybuilding Enthusiasts - Look the part, haven't stepped on a stage
Gym rats- Guys who half-*** it and call themselves the part.

[DPNZ]

Wow, people really care about this.

Look, let me break it down for you. Just because you compete or are planning to compete and in your mind you're "hardcore", you don't need to take anything away from others by only classing yourself and others doing the exact same thing as "bodybuilders".

It's meaningless. It's simply a definition of something people do with their body.

[BOUNTYHUNTERMK2]

Wow, people really care about this.

Look, let me break it down for you. Just because you compete or are planning to compete and in your mind you're "hardcore", you don't need to take anything away from others by only classing yourself and others doing the exact same thing as "bodybuilders".

It's meaningless. It's simply a definition of something people do with their body.

Off topic but looking lean DP, quality avi pic!

[mike8190]

yup

i see it this way: bodybuilder =/= competitive bodybuilder. I build my body at the gym. i'm not a competitive bodybuilder though.

THIS. You could call yourself a bodybuilder or a competitive bodybuilder. Pretty simple, nothing anyone should get too worked up about. I see guys on these forums who compete and huff whenever someone calls themselves a bodybuilder and have never done a show.

[Shredthetics]

Just because you compete or are planning to compete and in your mind you're "hardcore", you don't need to take anything away from others by only classing yourself and others doing the exact same thing as "bodybuilders".

This is hypocritical.
99.99999% of every man in a gym/these forums who call themselves "bodybuilders", never have nor plan to ever take the time out of their life to create a posing routine & practice it for hours on end, or to put themselves through the mentally obliterating stress & pain of adhering to strict dieting for months straight, dehydrate their body's cells to the point of sever cramps loss of eyesight, kidney malfunction, ect, painting their body ridiculous colors in hope to show that one extra muscle fiber under unpredictable lights, standing in front on hundred of strangers only to be judged on EVERY weakness you have along with possibly having that fact of the men standing next to you somehow be "better" than you. ect ect ect.

There are so many things that make an actual bodybuilder a bodybuilder, that it's insulting and as you said "takes away from" their effort that the average gym rat somehow has the right to say he is equal in title/status.

/rant.

[DPNZ]

THIS. You could call yourself a bodybuilder or a competitive bodybuilder. Pretty simple, nothing anyone should get too worked up about. I see guys on these forums who compete and huff whenever someone calls themselves a bodybuilder and have never done a show.

Yeah it's like they're precious about their special club.

[DPNZ]

Off topic but looking lean DP, quality avi pic!

Cheers mate!

[jzma]

Not sure anyone should really get to wrapped up about this. I mean everyone is a bodybuilder to me. There's competitive bodybuilders and lifestyle bodybuilders. You've got your gym rats, weightlifters, strength trainers, etc.

Fuark repped not even once