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Body building is a form of masturbation - maybe it’s fun, but there’s no point. Ooh I lift to get big <cough *g@y cough> Who you trying to impress, other lifters - cuz that’s well - you know what that is. Besides - the hot women I know like fit men, they’re grossed out by the lifters.[/quote]
Who cares if someone wants to be a bodybuilder?
Regarding hot women, I would place more emphasis on what women do and respond to rather than what they say. This is totally off topic, but look at how many women say they want a “nice guy,” but constantly turn down nice guys in favor of dating outlaw bikers with forearm tattoos? What are they responding to? Look at how many “nice guys” can’t find dates. Yet that’s what all the hot women say they want.
Ok back on topic.
Most martial artists would **** themselves if they had to fight a bodybuilder.
Who cares if someone wants to be a bodybuilder? Why does anyone care what they look like? Wanting to gain muscle is no different than fat people wanting to lose weight.
Anyway - the strongest people I know are farmers and furniture movers - they don’t look like body builders.
Depends on how you define strength. Farmers and furniture movers have great muscular endurance because of the nature of their work, but can they run a marathon? Can they deadlift 3x their bodyweight? Can they box 5 rounds without tiring? There are many definitions of “strong.”
Now if you’re doing curls to get better at defending a kimura - or you doing explosive bench to build fast twitch so you can master a transition - there’s something to gain by doing so. Bulking and bodybuilding - bah, it’s well, you know what it is.
lol, I love the anti-bodybuilding crew. Who cares what someone wants to do?
I love how people think big muscles are inflated and useless. I think it’s carryover from old school MA nonsense, probably combined with the fact that bodybuilders, when they are beginners in MA, probably over-muscle their way through everything.
But once they learn how to do it correctly, they’re much more powerful fighters than smaller guys.
There’s also overcorrection from the “functional strength” crew. To bring this idea to the masses, the marketing had to be a bit anti-bodybuilder, because all the public knew about was weightlifting = bodybuilder. I remember in the early 2000s when it happened, there was so much bodybuilder hate. Even Pavel was a bit anti-bodybuilding in his books and programs. I don’t think he thinks bodybuilding is stupid or useless; he was just making a point. It’s dying down a bit now and things are starting to equalize again.
Also, a lot of people hate on bodybuilding because it’s hard. The training is hard, eating enough is hard, etc. It’s easier to be skinny and pretend like it’s by choice because “bodybuilding sucks and is useless muscle.” lol.
I don’t want to fight a BJJ blackbelt, but if I had to, I’d rather him be 140 pounds than a 240 pound bodybuilder.
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