Bodybuilding is pointless reddit male Muscles are all show and no work. Problem is, a lot of natties think you need to look like Simeon Panda and Lazar Angelov in order to be fit/aesthetic. is a self focused pursuit. People come in, get a requisition for blood work, they normally get tested later in the day or are subtly and immorally told to come in after abstaining from sleep and you'll see in the lab work that their testosterone levels will be a bit further than the ideal Well the main difference is, a lot of people do bodybuilding for the look. If a bodybuilder is stronger or weaker depends purely about who you pick and what you test. That's how bodybuilding works doesn't it? You might want to do this because you've seen jacked and shredded bodybuilders doing it. I've been doing 5 2-minute planks, barbell curls, 3 mile jog, flutter kicks, and other exercises. Maintain or gain but slow progress and good food. Being a muscular man gives you a lot of benefits. In a Norwegian study where they looked at body fat percentage in relation to BMI, they found that 50% of the women in the control group (Norwegian females age 13–39) with a normal BMI were classified with obese body fat levels. What you are seeing bodybuilders doing is prepping for shows. In my opinion it’s more akin to body-mod type stuff than health. Bodybuilding is actually a pretty healthy sport (hobby) if you take out the steroids or use them very sensibly to correct your own body hormones (low testosterone). I also believe that most young male lifters get into this hobby to become more attractive to females (also why I do it), but overdoing it is counter productive from multiple points of view. Bodybuilding, general fitness, powerlifting, etc. Without those, lifting serious weight is actually more likely to hurt you. Jun 24, 2007 ยท The most popular bodybuilding message boards! Strength does increase with this rep/set scheme, but at a slower rate. See full list on barbend. Fitness modeling and bodybuilding are different, bodybuilding is almost never “healthy”, it’s pushing your body beyond its capabilities. These are just some examples, but I just find life pointless in general. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. There’s also Chaunsi Heatley who just got his Pro card, also in Men’s Open, at Nationals last weekend, he posted pics here too. 7 * 60= 420 g of protein. So an awful lot of people in the gym trying to get swole are already in denial, and that's before they get seriously into bodybuilding. I said hypertrophy not aesthetics. They go on stage with spray tans and tiny little speedos. Members Online gENTlemanMatthew Sure you can, but generally it works fairly well. Most IFBB pro bodybuilders can still bench 600+ and deadlift/squat 700+, but this is obviously lower than top powerlifters who can bench/deadlift/squat 850-900+. TRT helps you recover faster allowing you to qork harder and longer. Members Online [deleted] Having low body fat and being reasonably strong in general can get you visible abs. I am a powerlifter. Pageants don’t seem fundamentally different from athletic competition, especially bodybuilding. At the elite level, every detail matters. If you do trt it would allow you to work harder, so if you arent already at your capacity for exercise its pointless. 5, not that tall but I have long limbs it sometimes takes a bit and going down in weight to get the formdown. I'm skinny (135lbs) but I want more lean body mass. If you want to look big and solid, then you can get a decent amount of size naturally at a higher bodyfat, but most people wouldn't call that a bodybuilder physique. He reflects this by saying that cutting and bulking is pointless, but that message won’t necessarily apply to the general person looking to get huge. In that sense, yes, natural bodybuilding is pointless, because you'll never look like those guys without gear. So my question is should i continue in the gym making slow progress without creatine or is it pointless? Honestly this is true for bigger people in general…. Tons of health benefits! I assume the average male to be stronger than the average female bodybuilder and men are generally more aggressive. There was nothing that I would rather be doing. For bodybuilding, you need your abs to be a lot better than just "visible". As I've gotten older I've noticed that injuries take so much longer to heal, so prioritizing injury prevention is key through exercise selection, warming up and not ego lifting. The majority of them don’t even look aesthetically pleasing either they just look gross. 2g/kg) = 190kg as the threshold. The reasoning is pretty simple, in order to maintain 1lb of fat on your body takes way fewer calories than maintaining 1lb of muscle. This means for every lb of muscle you pack on your body actually requires more calories to maintain that muscle, so in theory if If you are a man with wide hips and narrow shoulders, which a HUGE portion of the male population have wide hips, then it’s basically impossible for you to be a competitive bodybuilder. Yes. Men’s attractiveness is rated by women generally. If you see a fat dude but there moving around just fine then odds are you don’t wanna fuck with them, if there struggling to move there meat suit then you’ll probably be okay unless they get on top of you. Discuss NANBF/IPE, INBF/WNBF, OCB, ABA, INBA/PNBA, and IFPA bodybuilding, noncompetitive bodybuilding, diets for the natural lifters, exercise routines and more! Posted by u/wherebropls - 1 vote and no comments Yo, alright here are my thoughts on the issue. Diet. If anyone thinks this is disgusting, that is their right to an opinion but I’d challenge you to ask yourself why. If you disagree then feel free. It's not just steroids, but HGH's and a few other things that you probably shouldn't put in your body unless it's for medical reasons. I would plan my life around it. However I dont think this is the case and is really just apart of the male gaze. There was an actual study getting around where 1-2 hours under 8 hours per night had men operating at the test levels of someone 10 years older - which is mental. Posted by u/hieusername - 142 votes and 65 comments We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. PS: I would suggest you get into stretch or look into your shoulder (or is it the pose only? If so then forget anything Im about to say) Your left upper trap seem to be way more engaged th I still follow bodybuilding and do bodybuilding style workouts because it’s fun and I stay “healthy” lean. If your just starting to workout and your bodybuilding…THATS GREAT. Most bodybuilders are actually extremely unhealthy and end up having health problems later in life. This doesn’t seem to be a man competing against women or really anyone in general. All that hard work and effort and it only achieves looking a very specific way that appeals to other people also trying to look that specific way. Wait, what? I'm on my first true cut, so bear with me if I sound stupid. Live and let live and fuck your double standards. I’m sorry you can’t get women. On the day of the competition, bodybuilders are actually at their weakest. But unable to run 5km is purely sad. I used to read those fitness magazines in the 90s hoping I could get the physiques of the bodybuilders featured. I think so. 1. My dad lost 50 pounds on no carb, I lost 20 pounds, we have clients who lose weight following "clean" diets that reddit would shit on like crazy. Most of my irl male bodybuilding friends also say the There's no such thing as "real strength". Men’s open bodybuilders wear just as revealing bottoms as this so it’s no more revealing. Let's worry about the many more obese we have" Fat people are not looked ( I think they should not be) upon as gross, because no fat person mindfully strives to become heavy,it happens by itself ,either blame the genes or the lifestyle on the other hand bodybuilders eat a specific diet, train and many do drugs to grow big. "Is aesthetics with wide hips possible?". Do most people really go from 15-18% to 7-4% in just 6-12 weeks? Let's say someone is 18% @ 200 lbs. most bodybuilders actually don't know proper form for most lifts, its pretty crazy, they do different form to get a pump in their muscle not to do the lift safely/properly for weight, which I think is less maintainable and Bodybuilding may be a selfish sport in that it is focused on the self but that doesnt make bodybuilders selfish people. More recently video games and TV shows have seemed completely pointless as well. If you're just maintaining size/strength, a little lifting does, in fact, retain muscle mass - but be careful. The bodybuilders who die young die because of a cocktail of various drugs. 1) No Questioning Status or "Fake Natty" Accusations: Doubts and speculations regarding the natural-status of another bodybuilder will never be enough to prove if that someone is truly "natural" or not, only drug testing and self admittance of using banned substances will. They can’t run fast but it takes a lot of muscle to move all that mass. That is the whole point of the competition. For actual, real deal bodybuilders, it's this to an 9th I've been changing my diet to get 75 grams of protein, and I've been weightlifting. Bodybuilding is a stupid waste of time if you don't have the right genetics. You won't get any taller, but you're still going to fill out more and probably have your metabolism start to slow down in 3-5 years. More often than not, these peoples bodies are so lean that they look bizarre and A traditional cut would consist of 6-12 weeks, usually for bodybuilders to shred from 15-18% BF down to 7-4%. But, those folks still had to work fuuucking hard to get that. Second, bodybuilding is not just standing on stage and winning a beauty contest. The prizes for winning bodybuilding events really aren't all that much compared to other sports. Outside of competition type stuff and aesthetics, why is it so rare to see male body builders with body hair? Like 99% of pictures you see of male body builders and even when I went to the gym myself I rarely ever saw it. Without it, you age rapidly, don’t recover from workouts and struggle with stress/poor decision making. This community is open to all forms of The term “bulking up” is usually just a cycle people refer to where they eat at a calorie surplus to gain muscle then they return to a cut stage where they go into a calorie deficit to lose the fat they gained during the bulk while sustaining the muscle built. It is the only sport in which your only goal is to just look good. I still enjoy bodybuilding but I strongly suspect that I’m addicted to the happy endorphins I get when working out that distract me from reality rather than to the activity itself. Bigger and bodybuilder esque physiques are impressive but they are too stocky and can make you look really short especially if you don't have the greatest proportions. Men lift because they want to get bigger and lift more weight. Reply reply Are you meaning actual bodybuilders here, or just people that lift weights? My relationship with food isn't great, and I tend to just view it as fuel. I'm a dude, not a body builder so much just like to stay in shape. When is the "golden years" bracket to start bodybuilding if you have serious ambitions about it? Lately I have seen more and more incredible (and obviously enhanced) physiques on guys 17, 18, 19 years old. Four years passed and training had become a real passion. I'm here to talk about why this isn't smart or achievable. After your 2nd, 3rd, 10th rodeo, you know what to expect and have the right tools to help you get over that slump as smoothly as possible (notice I didn't say as quickly as possible everyone's body recovers differently, but for a Male body, the biggest marker to identify if you're back to normal is via bloodwork and checking your FSH levels). hahdny fclkx lmaigtv ejsrf rdx lljari qur moin rgxu gissm uqcxu mcdli lqwniwfq mstco jpz