brb sit around injecting copious amounts of drugs all day feeling like a junkie
brb force feeding to the point eating is no longer enjoyable
brb popping all the stims towards comp time - feeling like a stimmed out junkie again
brb sleep apnea and general feeling of un-wellness
brb no life outside of lifting, eating and injecting drugs

seems so unfulfilling - must be mental illness that drives it

Do you have any idea what discipline, dedication, and integrity means? About pushing yourself past limits you never even thought imaginable? I don't envy the work it must take for these guys to achieve what they do, gear or not. What I do envy, however, is what it must feel like seeing yourself push you body and mind past barrier after barrier and come out a better man.

Low self esteem

Drugs and genetics do 90% of the work for them

Non negotiable

Addiction

You know nothing about sports.

The 90% is the easier part. 0.1% is the difference between the first and the last.



Drugs could give you 99%... if you don't workout to get the other one, you aren't winning anything.







This being said... their motivations is the same motivations other athletes have. Why would you want to be a tennis player? a nascar racer? a swimmer?

They must enjoy putting their gas shrunken genitals into little posing pouches, getting other gay men to rub oil all over them & cover themselves in boot polish to parade in front of other gay men who grade them.

Did you just insinuate bodybuilding was a sport?

kek

It is. By definition.

Sports are not for you. Just go play with your barbies, little girl.

Shooting all kinds of drugs into your body and gorging on food to become a massive behemoth = "come out a better man"?

I think I have to disagree with that.

To see what the human body is aesthetically capable of
To reach the highest point in their favorite hobby
Cuz u mirin

Mental illness and sucking at real sports when younger.

it's a glorified male beauty pageant - lets not beat around the bush about how gay bodybuilding actually is, that would just be coping

You can literally say that about any passion you insecure fukktard.

Why even live OP? Why even work? Why even misc? (Ded fkn Srs) (Pls go f@gg0t)

You're literally on a bodybuilding forum with an avatar posing shirtless you stupid f@gg0t. (Ded fkn Srs)

Nothing wrong with doing a hobby you enjoy.

Good times

Op's Username to Rep Power ratio does not compute

Lifestyle of working out, playing sports, maintaining a healthy lowish bf% and leaning out a little more during the summer to look good at the beach = healthy, fun, and cool

True Professional Bodybuilder: Huge amounts of gear needed, insane periods of starving / dehydrating for shows, loss of social fun (eating and or drinking with friends), loss of libido from low low bf%, long term health hits to heart and liver, while most hardly make any significant money = not worth it and not respected by most people.

grab the thongs and lather me up with tanning lotion bby

Yeah, bodybuilding is bit of crap competition nowadays. You spend thousands of money to end up being broke and dead by 40. Even sloots are not impressed by your bloatmaxx phisique.

Because most of them are Manlets and try to make it up through muscles srs. They’re also Incels srs

Mental illness. srs.

because I want to be put in a cage and fed raw meat

I respect it but im over untested bodybuilding now. Maybe if so many are dying the limits have actually been reached.

With natural bodybuilding theres more people starting to look like frank zane with the results from smarter trainer and natural bodybuilding you can do for life

Because building fame, fortune and traveling the world by hanging out with your bro's, lifting weights, etc. is significantly more appealing then wage-slaving till your 75 years old?

If you're smart you do like Jay. You build a social media following/fanbase. You sell products. You get endorsements. You make investments. Then you retire and run your business.

Frank Zane's nickname was The Chemist. Nobody who looks like they lift is natural brah. Social media/instagram/youtube has changed things for the worse too.

Gym I go to has a bunch of HS/college kids. A large portion of them are enhanced. If you're a natural lifter you can be fanatical about diet/nutrition/lifting for 10+ years and within 2-3 years these kids will be mogging you in physique/strength/athleticism. Also have a ton of these insta/tiktok thot types that do workouts to build their booty/leg and trim their waste-lines down for an hourglass physique. Some of these girls are hitting the var too. Unless you're born with a great bone structure/metabolism being natural isn't exactly going to work anymore.




My group of peers/friends I'd say about 20-30 guys are enhanced. Imagine hanging out with/partying with about 20-30 dudes that have been training enhanced for 10-15 years and being a nattycel. Imagine hitting a pool party, boats, or a beach with a bunch of enhanced brahs and you are the only natty there. Imagine working out with a hand full of friends and you're the only dude that uses less then 2 plates on a bench-press/incline bench-press...


Its easy to see why people make the choice to go 'enhanced'. Even if they don't compete/aren't aspiring BBers.

That's retarded.

Jay cutler is the exception not the rule

Most of these dudes live paycheck to paycheck doing sexual favours for gay men in exchange for steroids and money

I feel bad for the guys with bad genetics trying to chase the bodybuilding dream , Jestbrah for example

In all fairness a lot of miscers including myself could take what he takes and still look nothing like him