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Yes! I absolutely would! I have never done it for admiration. I’m a corn fed 6’4 360 and there’s nothing “attractive” about my physique. People just see a really big dude.Would you also train on a desert island?
Yes! I absolutely would! I have never done it for admiration. I’m a corn fed 6’4 360 and there’s nothing “attractive” about my physique. People just see a really big dude.Would you also train on a desert island?
That is the best thing about it all. Do to it just for the love of it. Selfimprovement for yourself not to show up for someone.Very well said. I have said it on here multiple times and it’s why I don’t keep an active log or do social media. I do this sport for nobody but myself. I would hate it any other way.
Well said… I will be forever smallAnything that makes you feel good, confident and like you accomplished something is worth it. Simple as that.
I also think goal setting and the act of chasing and progressing is invaluable in life. If you play basketball, if you dig ditches, if you file papers....you should want to be the best basketball player, the best ditch digger and the best filer. It's what gives your day, your week and your month, purpose. Chasing something that miiight just out of your reach. Bodybuilding is that same endeavor. NONE of us will settle and say, "ahhh, this is it...im done, this is the best body." That is inconceivable to us. So everyday we will get up and chase something and feel good about it.
ThisYes…it keeps me sane and that’s important.
This sport can’t be about money on any level. All you’ll have is regrets if you pursue it for that.Worth it? Monetarily? Absolutely not. It is a place of solitude, a place to heal, push yourself mentally/physically. It feels "good" (good being an odd statement when doing widowmakers)
Rollins sums it up nicely...
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Bodybuilding at the end of the day is what an individual himself makes it to be
If you are trying fill the pit of insecurity, it will never be enough and might lead to an early death. Partly because that problem is deeper and bodybuilding scratches the symptom
If you see it as a positive thing, both the physicality (strength and size) and the lessons you learn from it. Then it's worth it. There's zero reason to die unreasonably early especially a recreational bodybuilder. Even as a competitor, you can draw a line for where your risk tolerance is according to genetics, and you won't be playing Russian roulette with your health
Bodybuilding is a Rorschach mask in real life. It will showcase whatever is on the inside to the world. For some it's positivity, discipline, overcoming personal adversity; for others it's insecurity, jealousy, impulsivity...
Ha exactly. I have several times thought what if i had directed my energy toward something else.I sometimes think; what if I got into painting 25 years ago instead of bodybuilding? How good would I be at painting? Would I be selling paintings for $20,000?
Bolded: I don’t speak that language.You can bodybuild and do fairly well without giving it 100%. It's okay to miss meals, training sessions, pin, use less gh b/c of cost, etc. Those things have implicit and explicit costs, particularly in terms of their opportunity cost for your social relationships, family, romance, and career.
Getting 3rd instead of 6th at nationals at the cost of all those things isn't worth it for most people. But eating chicken, rice, vegetables, steak, and fruit in healthy home cooked meals along with training in the gymnasium 4-6 days per week on some testosterone is healthy and has a relatively low cost compared to somebody who is trying to optimize literally every variable 24/7/365.
If you make your living from coaching or competing or are aspiring to do so, then yes, missing those things isn't an option because it's literally your job. If your partner and social circle are all competitors too, missing those things is 'I don't speak that language' as you put it. But if doing those things makes you sacrifice things in terms of career, family, social relationships, money, time, etc, to too great of an extent then it seems like a very negative tradeoff even if you are a competitor. The question becomes 'what is "too great of an extent" and that's up to the individual.Bolded: I don’t speak that language.
But I do agree if you want to bodybuilding as a lifestyle and not as a top level competitor you can do those things. Lol