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5 Things I Learned From Entering Bodybuilding Competitions

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Recently, I had the opportunity to enter a bodybuilding competition. Bodybuilding has always been one of my main interests and passions, and I knew that this was the route I wanted to take. And although I wasn’t able to take home the blue ribbon (I’m a big guy, but you should have seen the competition), I have come away with some valuable tips. Check out these five important things I learned from my experience:

1. Hire A Coach With A Good Reputation

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When I was preparing to enter the competition, I went through long months of training and dieting to get my body ready for the stage. Even at those times when I felt like I was physically ready to step out, I needed to know exactly how to present my physique so that I could flaunt my strengths and hide my weaknesses.

That’s why I found it crucial to have a great posing coach by my side. She was able to evaluate my physique, so that I soared in the competition. After all, a subtle move of my foot or twist of the torso creates lines to emphasize muscles, which can be all it takes to nab first place.

A good coach can help you with your nutrition as well. I personally have my favorite supplements, but many coaches will advise you of their favorite nutritional strategies and supplementation to use right before a competition. I have done competitions with and without a coach and I can tell you that they will give a huge competitive advantage.

2. Videotape Your Sessions

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While I definitely learned a great deal about posing from looking at myself in mirrors, nothing compared to capturing it on video. By looking at myself in videos, I was able to see how I smiled and moved throughout my poses. The last thing I wanted was to look like a deer caught in headlights.

Developing stage presence is as much about being graceful as it is having confidence. Yes, in order to be a bodybuilding competitor you must have an incredible physique, but to place in the top positions, you really need the complete package. Taping myself practicing my routines really made a difference in my overall performance.

3. Pay Attention To Breathing And Timing

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The more I practiced my routine, the more I found myself able to perform it on stage without any hesitations. I found that when I efficiently transitioned between all of the poses that were mandatory of me, I created a more polished presentation. I was also able to hold each mandatory pose for longer.

A lot of bodybuilders don’t realize how important this is, as you only have a little bit of time to present all the training you’ve been working so hard on.  This is why it was vital for me to time my routine. Most of the competitions I entered only gave me 10 seconds total to complete my presentation, which came out to about two seconds per pose, and the last thing that any bodybuilder wants to do is fall short on time.

4. Do A Trial Run

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Knowledge really is power, especially on competition day. This is why I went into my bodybuilding competitions learning as much as possible about the venue where the competition was being held.

I also attended a couple of competitions at the venue beforehand, so that I could see exactly how big the stage and audience were. To me, it was important to know what  to expect when I first walked out, because I didn’t want to feel intimidated at all.

5. Know The Judges

Lastly, I learned how crucial it is to know who will be judging a bodybuilding competition, and who exactly the head judge will be. This is an invaluable tool, as judging is often subjective.

One judge may be going for a softer, more feminine appearance, while another judge might prefer harder physique with more visible muscles.  It was very beneficial to me to know who my judges were and what they preferred. I was able to get more insight by asking around, viewing galleries, and looking at videos of past competition winners.

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67 thoughts on “5 Things I Learned From Entering Bodybuilding Competitions”


  3. This scene from the second season of True Detective, perfectly depicts the destruction of the nuclear family unit but more importantly, the decimation of masculinity. Observe the points which perfectly symbolises the state of America today:
    1) The emasculation of boys: The character Chad reflects a generation of boys that were raised by single mothers. The absence of his father, goes to show that his son has no real structure or discipline around him. Hence, why he has gained so much weight, and has a strange interest in the tv show “Friends” which is primarilly aimed for women. Being brought up in a single mother household with an emasculated step father, will result in boys becoming like Chad.
    2) The interefernce of the government: Here, we see the social worker- an intrusion in the family unit whose primary function is to monitor the father, when in reality, these socialist family workers rip away the healthy dynamic between fathers and sons, and as a result, reinforce the idea that fathers can be replaced with big government daddy.

  4. My last competition had me endure posing, on stage, for 25 minutes. It was beyond taxing, considering I was under hot lights, completely dehydrated, and caloically deficient. The main point I learned is not only practising movement, but endurance in posing.
    That aside, having a coach is EXTREMELY expensive for those of us already on a shoestring budget after eating nothing but pricey chicken breasts for 3 months etc, but it IS invaluable. Dialling in for the last week with make or break the best figures.
    My first comp, I did it all myself. I came in at 187lbs. my second year, after gaining significant size, I came in at 184, and absolutely shredded, after consulting some more experienced trainers for the weeks prior.

    1. Just curious, but from a financial standpoint (prizes/awards/sponsors) is bodybuilding worth it for most people?? Or is it like being a musician only the 1% get rich???

      1. From my experience (pardon my interjection PH), most bodybuilders don’t do it for the money, fame, or career. Rather, they are interested in first achieving or approaching some ideal combination of beauty, grace and power, and they are finally interested in discovering a limiting factor to their ambitions, which exceeds their power.
        That is, they are interested in the beauty of the human body and its limitations, and they find themselves compelled to pursue these things for both the process, the catharsis, and the end results in spite of shortcomings.
        Your point is taken however–doing this for a living is generally impractical. In my experience, this is not even a concern in the community. If you think otherwise, then you best have a good idea of your genetic limitations and the extents that you’re willing to go in order to achieve your goals/livelihood.

  5. Body building? Lol good to know we here at RoK are turning into a bunch of fucking women.

    1. The only thing we should work on is our Glutes! Dumbell lunges, glute machines, squats! All real men want to have a great looking ass! If you don’t have that bubble butt you don’t have it going on! I don’t want to be a badass, I just want to have one bad ass!

      1. Now THAT is a good caricature of effeminate bodybuilding. I joke about that shit all the time… in fact it’s why I believe that most women are interested in powerlifting… they get to say, “shut up and squat!”
        Heh, this one bitch at my gym works her ass so much she practically has three asses. That ain’t no shit neither; when she stands straight up, these very odd rolls develop below her glutes proper and it looks like she has multiple asses sliding down her legs. I haven’t decided yet whether her efforts have caused this or if she is trying to correct this. Seriously, it’s odd in the sense that the rest of her body looks fine and she does train her glutes like a bastard.

        1. It’s not a caricature. I have a bitch at my gym who is obsessed with her bubble butt. A 40 something cougar who I admit works hard and is in very good condition, but is married with three kids and loves the attention paid to her bubble butt. She enters these body building bikini fitness class competitions. She has selfies of her ass posted all over the Internet. I used to think her Beta provider was a lucky man till I found out what an attention whore she is. Some of these pictures she has this ridiculously dark fake tan whereby she looks like she was burnt with a propane torch before she went on stage. With the silly blackened skin and this forced smile she looks like some kind of alien or demon.
          Good red pill reality. She is in no way content with just being a mom and wife and being physically fit. She has to have constant attention and validation from other men. I think if she could not parade her ass around for all to see she would be far more devastated than if she lost her family in a plane crash.

        2. Hahaha, the fake tan and ridiculous smile strike me the wrong way too… they actually make me reluctant to compete in the first place since they’re de rigiueur. Even though I plan on competing, I don’t think I’ll ever fake ‘n’ bake or spray tan myself… I get it for those that do it, that shit is just not for me though.
          I think your estimation of that woman is correct. One of my former coworkers used to fuck one like that, who was married by the way, and she got off on sending him these weird naked photos of her ass… which he showed to all of us of course. Interestingly, it was around that time that I introduced him to ROK and he ultimately told that bitch to fuck off when she tried to manipulate him.

  6. I didn’t see pin those glutes, so I’m assuming this article refers to steroid-free bodybuilding?

    1. While the author doesn’t make a point of distinguishing between natural or enhanced, I think your deduction is correct as his first link to “posing coach” is for naturalbodybuildingevents.com. The link provides local contact information and resumes for coaches throughout the US, Canada, and other countries for natural bodybuilders, physique competitors, etc… and is much appreciated.
      As the article stands, it doesn’t really matter whether one is enhanced or not. He’s discussing competition prep, which includes all those interested in entering a competition and applies even to those interested in other endeavors as Taignobias states above.

      1. So, taking the right steroid cocktail or not taking steroids has no impact on contest prep?

  7. I got as far as reading “she” for the coach. Glad he lost. Get to the back of the bus mangina, you were a loser before you started. Ugh. It’s 2015, I can’t stand men as weak as this, not one of them.

        1. “I don’t think my ancestors who liked to raid and swive beautiful women, would approve of their descendent posing and having a women show me how to be prancing, ravishing, hairless pretty boy”
          They sold out and settled down for luxuries of 11th century civilization, so odds are any barbarian ancestors would be happy to become betas and omegas for wonders not even royalty could buy, such as: indoor plumbing, air conditioning, refrigeration, etc. That’s just me however, perhaps you think that they’d want you to go to Africa to live gloriously as a semi-starving farm raider and goat thief.

        2. Uhhhh, you must know something about history I missed, because my history books made no mention of a luxurious and easy way of life in the 11th century let alone indoor plumbing, air conditioning and refrigeration. Thanks for sharing.

    2. The part that confused me was: “One judge may be going for a softer, more feminine appearance…”. I had to scroll up to see if it was a female body builder competition. Have no experience with these competitions, but I would never have guessed that some judges gave you points for being a feminine male body builder.

      1. Weird…I thought they deducted points for bitch tits. Was he competing in the Jenner Classic?

  8. 6. Never admit you’re on gear. If asked, claim you’re natural because there are armies of gullible guys out there who are mentally invested in the idea that they, too, can get big and ripped by going to the gym three times/week and drinking protein shakes of [insert company].

    1. This is something I fell into as a young bodybuilder. “Not only will “x” product give you 20lbs of muscle, it will do it in 3 days!” etc. It’s a shame that bodybuilding has become what it is. It used to be about being physically fit, and capable. You used to have to be in the shows of strength prior to the stage.

    3. A personal trainer who used to rent out the gym space I have at my clinic entered a bodybuilding comp about a year ago. He got a coach to help him prepare. Basically all the coach did was tell him what drugs to take when leading up to the comp and what foods to eliminate and when, including water.
      When body builders step on stage they are at their weakest. That, combined with all the drugs, gave the personal trainer kidney failure, was in hospital for a month, his girlfriend turned down his marriage proposal and he got back on snorting coke and was in rehab for 6 weeks.
      Just because they have “aesthetics”, doesn’t mean they are healthy.

    4. The nature of modern bodybuilding entails the appreciation of an aesthetique that arises from a malformation. The size of modern bodybuilders, while cool to see, is ultimately unnatural, impractical, and requires ridiculous upkeeping in protein. If a plane crashed in the jungle, the bodybuilder would likely die faster than the fatass. In some sense, when stepping into the competition rig, they are malnourished.
      http://i.imgur.com/asdqx.jpg

      1. That bodybuilder would provide a fantastic high protein meal for the other passengers though. Never write off the usefulness of a modern bodybuilder.

    5. Getting “big and ripped?” Haha, it’s actually much less difficult than you described it. I can post a picture of myself from two years ago (before I even started bodybuilding) that speaks to the ease of getting “big and ripped” in common terms.
      Maxing out one’s potential for mass, symmetry and aesthetics… now that’s another story and I think that’s what bodybuilding is all about… approaching an ideal rather than merely looking good, big or ripped.
      Fuck it, you don’t need to ask… this picture was taken more than two years ago before I even knew my asshole from my elbow as far as lifting weights and bodybuilding was concerned. My budget essentially determined my diet (I only ate once per day).
      I seriously didn’t know shit-all but for curls, pullups, pushup variations, crunches/planks, and body-weight lunges. Maybe I started experimenting with various other lifts at this time, but this was the BEGINNING of my interest in bodybuilding/weight training. From the sound of it, my before picture is impossible for people to achieve as an after? I don’t buy it. That’s bullshit. Maybe I wasn’t “big,” and fair enough… I wasn’t, but I sort of looked it anyways and could pass for “big and ripped” by everyday standards. Since I’ve begun to take bodybuilding seriously, I’ve gained 40 pounds.
      EDIT: Haha, for some reason my photo wouldn’t upload, how convenient right? Well, I posted this exact photo, not too long after taking it, on Well Built Style’s site here: http://www.wellbuiltstyle.com/how-to-get-six-pack-abs/#comment-962040624

        1. Thanks man.
          It’ll be a while from now (roughly a year), but I’ll report back after my first competition.

    6. Why not admit it? I would admit it if I was on gear. I use creatine, and I tell people I use it. It is not a steroid though. I don’t see the point in lying and hiding this.

      1. Their sponsors would drop them if they ever openly acknowledged that test, deca, tren, dbol, hgh, and others were the secret to their success rather than MTX Whey or whatever other legal supplement they’re trying to sell.
        Rich Piana is one of the few in the industry who does admit it. You should check him out if you’re interested in an honest take on contemporary bodybuilding.

        1. Ok I get it now. Yeah most pro bodybuilders are paid to promote supplements and protein drinks.

    7. I used SuperMandro and ripped the guts out of all of my rivals. Getting “ripped” is easy and can happen in seconds if you piss me off.

  12. Bodybuilding is not a sport. Rooted heavily in the most narcissistic aspects of human behavior, it is very feminine in nature. The desire to be looked at, body obsession, shaving all their hair off, need for validation – sounds very much like today’s woman.
    I do however believe weight training and proper exercise is a healthy thing. There is nothing wrong with staying in good shape or becoming very strong whether it is for a sport or self defense. Prancing around on a stage nearly naked while queens like Joe Wieder drool is gay.

    1. It’s the idea that these professionals represent (in heroic or godlike fashion) which should inspire us to pursue our own ideals of beauty and strength, nobility and justice–ideals fit for the so-called “fine and good man.”
      I disagree with you, but still, I’ll grant that contemporary professional bodybuilders have taken a turn towards the obscene with regards to extreme mass at the cost of the fine and good.

      1. I don’t think trying to obtain a great physique is in and of itself gay or inherently narcissistic. I think destroying your body with drugs to attain a freakish and unnatural appearance so you can parade around on a stage is not a sport nor is it manly. I don’t doubt bodybuilders work hard or that they have a tremendous amount of discipline to reach the top. I think fixation on one’s self and obsession about your body is not a healthy pursuit. If Steve Mihalik were still with us he would warn young men off of destruction of their health with drugs. I watched a documentary in which Mihalik said that by the time he reached his 50’s he had the natural testosterone production of a 12 year old girl.

        1. I agree with you, but you have to keep in mind that most (all) of the top bodybuilders have good genetics to build muscle, with and without steroids. They started at a young age and they have been doing that their whole life and dont see or have other things to do in their life when it comes to a real career. So when a bodybuilder has been traning 10-15 years and then have the chance to become top 10 i think they just keep doing that shit and deal with all the side-effects later.

        2. I actually agree with you more than you may know.
          I take issue with your estimation of bodybuilding as a non-sport. The physical rigors leading up to the competition are well known, but people tend to overlook the extreme physical demands placed on the competitor while on stage. The author of this article did a wonderful job highlighting these physical demands and gave useful advice on how to prepare for them. Also, posing routines and pose downs are all about strategically outshining your opponents while minimizing your own shortcomings. The physical demands coupled with the strategic elements make it obvious to me that it’s basically a sport.
          The best argument for bodybuilding as a non-sport, in my opinion, is the subjective nature of the outcome. I can hardly think of any sport–outside of gymnastics–that determines victory solely based on the judges’ impressions of a competitor’s performance. Haha, OK, now that I’m thinking about it there’s diving and the X Games too, and probably others I can’t think of at the moment. Anyways, the point is that competition scores are an opinion of “expert and trusted evaluators” rather than merely being a documented fact of performance. This makes bodybuilding something of a hybrid–like a “political sport.”
          The difference between bodybuilding competitions and beauty pageant competitors are obvious. Critics give way too much weight to the element of effortless grace that bodybuilders try to incorporate in their movements on stage, while beauty competitors seem to rely exclusively on this trait. To the contrary, if we believe that bodybuilding posing is as easy as beauty pageant posing, then of course an argument can be made. However, that is simply not the case and anyone who believes that has been fooled by professional mastery.
          Basically, I agree with you that bodybuilding can be a healthy and fulfilling path to self-improvement, but when taken to extremes it can have the opposite effect. It’s a shame that the pursuit of bodybuilding implies drug abuse, excessive narcissism and vanity, gigantism, and a host of other unhealthy characteristics. It certainly doesn’t have to be that way, that’s just what it’s become. The trends towards aesthetics and natural bodybuilding, even the growing importance of physique competitors, have a lot to say about how the bodybuilding world is struggling to correct itself and change its public image. Even Arnold Schwarzenegger has recently come out during his Arnold Classic to criticize bodybuilding judging standards and the manner in which they distort bodybuilders’ ambitions.

        3. Word. I agree 110% with everything.
          It is definitely a political sport – just check kai green vs phil heat, grape fruit fucker vs guy with a “good background”. And yes its not a sport, because its not a competition – its what the judges think about the physic.

      1. I do weight train and cardiovascular exercise. I just do it to stay healthy. I’m not a kid anymore. I don’t think taking steroids to artificially gain unnatural muscle mass is a sport or even sane. How many of these body builders are even around much past 40?

        1. nobody told you to take steroids….neither does the article.
          and there is something called as natural bodybuilding.
          google it brah>>>

    4. Yup, and I’d also tell the OP to stick to his weightlifting and leave the article writin’ to actual smart people. I go to the gym regularly and I’m in pretty good shape, but 90% of the “gym rats” I see are dum-dums. Unfortunately, the constant validation they receive is enough to convince them that They Are Awesome In All Things.
      The article structure makes no sense, the presentation style is all over the place, and the five ‘tips’ are arbitrary, incoherent, and don’t lead to any big picture idea. Some points deserve a lot more elaboration, others could be eliminated or absorbed into other points without losing any info.

  13. Nice article man. I really appreciate it and it’s timely as far as I’m concerned (I’m about to start prepping for my first contest).
    Bodybuilders get a lot of hate around here, so don’t be surprised if most of the comments are negative or a joke involving kratom, steroids, false promises, etc…I know that I don’t need to tell you this, but it must be said regardless.
    Rich Piana started a bit of a movement to end or at least attempt to moderate the petty squabbling between bodybuilders, powerlifters, Olympic lifters, cross fitters, etc.

    I’ll admit, I used to think bodybuilders were effeminate. I used to think powerlifters were fat asses. I used to think cross fitters were funny, irrelevant, and sometimes dangerous. I used to think Olympic lifters were crazy. And I used to think physique competitors were half-assed bodybuilders.
    We’re all in this together, so chill. Not because Piana says so, but it’s something I’ve sensed from the beginning and you may have sensed it too. If you’re hating on the guy next to you–who’s busting his ass for his goals–then you’re probably wrong. It’s one thing to question or provide valuable information, but straight up hate and negativity in the fitness world is fucked up.

    1. Bodybuilding gets a lot if hate on here but I respect guys who have the discipline and put time and effort into an endeavor. I get it’s vain or narcissistic in many ways which is what it probably cops hate but I see bodybuilding a far more respectful pursuit than playing videos games or watching sport and TV like many guys do today. I’m not a bodybuilder myself I just think it cops some unjustified hate.

    2. usually the haters are the ones who are out of shape,want to eat all the trash out there,have no motivation to hit the gym, nor the dedication and discipline to follow a strict diet and regime.

      1. For the most part I don’t doubt that, but those types are obvious trolls.
        The ones who get me all chipppy are the powerlifters and others in the fitness world who slander those with different goals for the sake of proselytizing. You don’t need to prove that bodybuilders are fags to get people interested in powerlifting, crossfit, boxing or whatever. You’re just taking cheap shots for the sake of humor or self-validation and in the process souring hopeful young readers to the whole idea of fitness and self-improvement.

  14. Sadly, bodybuilding has become a contest of who has the best steroid cycles. Even the so-called “natural” contests have an issue.
    My take on it: train for health. Train for strength. Musculature will come. That’s what the drug-free greats (Park, Grimek, Reeves, Kono, Colbert, etc.) did. It’s what men should do today. Most guys who are strictly doing bodybuilding have some sort of deficiency.

  15. Bodybuilding is very gay and feminine, like a beauty peagant contest.
    The fake sun tan, the posing and the faces they are making. Looks like they are trying to smile while taking a dump.
    I would reccomend competative lifting instead.

    1. You recommend bitch tits, a beer gut, and love handles? That’s very gay and feminine, like a dad-bod pageant contest.
      I would recommend competitive bodybuilding instead.

  17. I don’t care how one looks, if you can’t do at least half of that you’re just a Michelin doll.

    1. I’m a big advocate of functional bodyweight fitness myself. Function dictates form for me. Having said that, i’m ‘live & let live’ regarding anyone who pursues bodybuilding aesthetics.

  19. a few of the best books I have in my body building library are “Keys to the Inner Universe” by Bill Pearl. He is one of the old school guys that was natural, but he also says it takes a lot of work, and 10 years to develop a champion form.. The other book is “Loaded Guns”, by the Late Larry Scott. Both books have excellent ideas, suggestions and exercises to flesh out in your own routines. The last book is Dan Duchaine’s underground “Body Opus”. As a lesson to you Dan passed at an early age…. he experimented with a lot of drugs, steroids, but his diet ideas, ketogenic diet advice is sound as are several books that promote the Atkins Diet..also of same methods. . Jon Gabriel is also an excellent fitness author, more scientific about diet than any other writer out there. He explains why people gain weight, lose weight, state of your mind vs hormone profiles etc. Invest a few dollars in some good old time books on either barnes & noble or amazon. Barnes has some really good prices when amazon $ucked. in closing. I never did any drugs so I can only attest to the natural route and it works. Guys that juiced got big, but they also went flat and shrunk as soon as they came off the juice, and their nuts shriveled like raisins. Find a routine, do your fat cutting in the A.M on an empty stomach, with some weights, then do your heavy lifting in the pm/evening for bulk. . The key is the training, do it every day, rest, eat well.Work hard and be patient. Have a good mindset, don’t become a narcissistic asshole. There are many paths to achieve your goals. Take one.

    1. I agree with much of what you said, however, you do not need to train every day and in fact this can be counterproductive depending on your goals and how you’re training.

    1. You do realize that Thing is a powerlifter, right? Sure, it dabbles in bodybuilding, but it is definitely a powerlifter first and foremost… just look up it’s accolades and status in the fitness community if you’re wondering.

        1. It’s really sad. I’d known about him for years, even though I didn’t follow him. I know how much he meant to the powerlifting community, and that must be really tough for them.
          Now he’s what… a joke? A basket case? A woman? A transitioning woman, or whatever the fuck? He said he won’t compete anymore, but I’m sure that’s just to placate the women who are terrified that he’ll snatch every world record within his grasp as a “woman.” The dude holds world records as a man. Fuck.

        2. Well, power lifters still have Mariusz Pudzianowski. He also has to be juicing. Maybe one of these billionaire big game hunters will kidnap him and hunt him on some secret game preserve. Some old guy chasing him through the jungle with a 600 Nitro express and a pith helmet. Lol.

  22. Stan Lee on this show Superhumans had this guy from Houston, some machinist around 50 who could do amazing things. He could take an aluminium frying pan and roll it up like a cigar. He took a horse shoe and bent it straight. He held a Harley with a Screaming Eagle engine from moving with his bare hands. No big muscles, no weight training, just an ordinary looking middle aged guy with glasses. Now that is interesting. Physics, mind over matter and the nature of reality in play.

    1. Even though I’m a bodybuilder, I do have a soft spot in my heart for things like this, and I’ve certainly admired my fair share of lesser feats of strength compared to the extraordinary ones you’ve described. We bodybuilders are not anti-strength or anti-power, you must know. In all these things, there is a considerable amount of overlap and interest, we’ve just chosen to emphasize some other aspect within the spectrum.
      One of the things that gets me always is how the hands of mechanics, machinists, roughnecks, carpenters, blacksmiths, and farmers always seem to crush my own when we shake for the first time (I’m in a business that involves me dealing with these people semi-regularly). These are normal looking, middle aged men, and I’m a strapping young lad. These are smart men, successful men, and strong men… and they would crush me if we ever came to loggerheads. I sense this when we shake hands. It doesn’t offend me or anything, but rather inspires me to develop certain things that have been neglected.
      You’re absolutely right. Walking down the street, you can never tell who’s the closet badass by appearances alone.

    2. I forgot his name but he is an amazing strongman. He said he only lifted weights in his early twenties and teens and he was more into powerlifting

    3. Those are just parlor tricks, not real feats of strength. The frying pan and horse shoe were probably made from some soft metal that even a child could bend.
      Many such demonstrations of amazing strength are actually faked.

  23. Bodybuilding and getting in shape should enhance your life, not ruin it. Those guys on the Olympia stage ruin their lives by cycling through all types of drugs. And for what purpose? A plastic trophy? A medal? No. Validation, validation from mostly other men. Validation is a feminine trait. Those guys who need to cycle, watch every single thing they eat, can never enjoy their lives because, “I gotta be on my strict diet for the next three months” is ridiculous. Bodybuilders are often angry and unhappy. That being said building a good body is respectable, I agree. You just don’t need to ruin your life.

  24. Number 6: Don’t bother at with bodybuilding at all. It ain’t natural and
    is more symptomatic of an emotional ailment than of anything useful or
    positive.

  25. Does anyone here recognize bodybuilding as being just as much a consequence of failed/failing narcissistic cultures as disconnected females are?

  26. Why not Strongman training? Bodybuilders are good to look at, but Strongmen are the ones who can pull trains, box and wrestle bears and lift mountains! If you can’t kill a young oxen with your bare hands, you’ve got a vagina, plain and simple.

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