'"BODYBUILDING": THE UNHEALTHIEST SPORT (redux)

[@peteben9635]

I like the idea of body-building as a way to live a longer healthier life. Eating a balanced diet with lots of vegetables, fruit, eggs, seeds, nuts etc and little processed foods. Lifting weights to a moderate amount and including some type of cardiovascular exercise or a sport you enjoy. I don't like the idea of using steroids to compete in a show, but I do like the idea that bodybuilders used to compete in tests of strength and gymnastic movements, not only muscle flexing on stage.

[@acornsucks2111]

Another interesting video that is to the point.

[@Edward-b1o]

I would love to see your take on the Wilfredo Gomez/Salvador Sanchez fight in 1981. One of the greatest fights ever, and the back story is equally as fascinating.

[@ET-RAMBLINGS]

I remember that fight well!!!

[@rokmin8550]

its an athletic activity and definitely hard but hardly a sport. Its more like a muscular beauty contest. My dad worked for Nautilus so I was familiar with it and who doesn't want muscle? But I used it as an aid to my boxing career, not as an end to itself. I train alongside many of these people and they're nice enough but none of them, not one, are really athletic in any way. Olympic weightlifting around here anyway, is non-existent and there are a few powerlifters here and there but mostly bodybuilders, always looking to get bigger for some reason and all the ones I know are taking something.

[@ET-RAMBLINGS]

About 25 years ago, the IOC did ... against much opposition ... award membership to bodybuilding. It was understood then to be a "demonstration" event, but it never happened. The Weider brothers' organization hoped that bodybuilding would eventually become a sports competition, but this, too, hasn't yet happened. For reason that you mentioned, the word "sport" is less than accurate, but other nouns don't quite work.

[@rokmin8550]

@@ET-RAMBLINGS its hard to do with one word but "athletic activity" I think covers it well, and again the people who train to compete are some of the hardest training people in the world, and maybe its me but I just can't see calling it a sport.

[@williamj.dovejr.8613]

I miss the classic nautilus machines, they're 20 times better than most of the current crop of training equipment. Plus, they were fun as hell to use.

[@rokmin8550]

@@williamj.dovejr.8613 yeah you're right, sadly I never got to use any of them for any length of time as the place that had them closed down. My dad had told me Art Jones told him that barbells were still very effective tools and for most people will be all they need, provided they use them properly.

[@timw4369]

It's not a sport it's an exhibition

[@charlieabel1533]

it's more of a body modification drug exhibition