Do you think you can live a body builder lifestyle?

[kitty71]

Although there is a difference between competitive bodybuilding lifestyle ( you work out and live only for competitions so the sacrifice is extreme regards of food, hours at the gym, social life, love life, etc etc. as the competitive lifestyle is an animal by itself, and is a much more extreme version of the bodybuilding lifestyle.) but having just a bodybuilding lifestyle and not competitive does not mean the sacrifice is much less, still both types are lifestyles where you have to sacrifice a lot of things as part of your daily life and both are just part of having the perfect physique and looks and taht is the focus of these people lifestyle, they pay more attention to the outer beauty and they just breath and eat exercise the whole time. IIm not saying that these people are not kind pretty people from the inside and have inner beauty, of course not but their focus mainly is on the looks here and there, the perfection of their superficial self.

I mean you do work out , exercise, practice sports to maintain a healthy normal lifestyle but you dont go to the extreme to sacrifice things like many body builders do and sometimes include to consume artificial supplements to build huge muscles that at the end they look horrible physically men and women. and I read that even being a body builder has it
CONS: limited range of motion in joints - when you focus only on strength and mass you lose flexibility in most joints because they are proportionally disbalanced. ...
speed - although you can train explosive strength, in order to move your full body you require much more energy to do so.

https://livehealthy.chron.com/types-sacrifices-athletes-make-10177.html

Could you handle the sacrifice of not having social life, eat certain type of foods (even if body builders eat huge amounts of food but it is good nutritional food though) and even weigh the food, weigh yourself often to check your progress, do not have time for romance

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or date if you wish, spend for instance like 6 days a week at the gym and train like 3 hours each day in order to achieve that body builder physique.

I wonder if body builders (men or women) besides working out to the extreme almost 24/7, they also have other common jobs at offices, companies or stuff like that, do they or not beacuse they will never have time to work on other things just on their bodies?

Some body builders are certified fitness instructors or teachers already and that..

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that is their work, that is their job and they are paid for being instructors or teachers but other body builders may not be instructors but they have ordinary jobs only that when they hit the gym they work out hard hard.

I remember reading about a lady body builder who had a ripped physique but not so huge and she said "I dont have a social life per se, I barely hang out and I dont have time to have dates, because I spend most of my time at the gym working out and I wonder, Is that true life?

[HighlyVolatile]

I think I have a good fighting chance of not only adopting that lifestyle but loving it. I'm a nerd by profession but a jock by passion and used to be a sponsored athlete in my teens breaking many local records (although falling slightly short of the Olympics). I'm used to very intense training 4+ hours and day, and sometimes 8+ hours on weekends for sports.

I also overlap a lot with bodybuilders on the disciplined nutrition front with a focus on macros and micros, and I don't mind food prepping and measuring food on a scale if that's my profession. I only find it difficult now because I'm married to a wife who loves to cook and friends who love to drink, but I'd have a completely different life if I pursued that as my profession.

The one thing I question is if I'm genetically gifted enough to be more than a small-time professional. I'm only 75% mesomorph and 25% ectomorph, for example. I can put on decent muscle but I'm way short of a bodybuilder, and even with performance enhancements, I don't think I could get as large as some of the top competitors. I think I can match their discipline though on the athletic and nutritional side if that was my career.

[HighlyVolatile]

Bodybuilding is kind of a dreamy thing to me if I considered it very seriously. My two main areas of passion (although I have a bunch but my very top) are athletic and artistic. Bodybuilding is a match made in heaven that way since it combines athleticism and artistry together, sculpting our bodies like sculptors do with clay through athletic training.

[HighlyVolatile]

I think if I tried though, I want to bring back more classical styles of bodybuilding as with the case of Frank Zane and Arnold Schwarzenneger where they were not only sculpting their bodies well enough to become Mr. Olympia but also focused on a strong functional component like still being able to do a good number of pull-ups, run fast, etc. That might not get me as far in today's competitive environment but I want to try to bring back the classical aesthetic before the likes of Ronnie Coleman.

[HighlyVolatile]

I also am a most amateur bodybuilder of sorts now. I'm so far behind pros and only go to the gym during the summer typically and drink so much alcohol throughout the year, but I got this going right now as a WIP:


If it was my profession and not something I'm barely putting any effort into doing, I think I could have far, far better results. This is me being very lazy especially on the nutrition happily eating junk food here and there, binge drinking alcohol, and not training very often but I do still have the athletic discipline I developed as a boy and as a teen when I do a train of training 4+ hours a day as a serious professional on the off days that I do train my body. I can train harder than almost anybody, and the most disciplined nutrition wouldn't be a problem for me if this was part of my career.

[HighlyVolatile]

... also never used performance enhancers of any sort. I'm 100% nattie. So my results should be far, far better if I did.

[TheAfrikan]

Living a life of bodybuilding like the likes of Coleman, Dexter Jackson, Phil Heath, Kai Grene, Dorian Yates, Big Ramy lol that is way too big and almost a big dedication. And these guys do sacrifice a lot to look like that and even some end up doing steroids too.

So if some do fail to make some stretches due to the big muscles, others can truly do, just like how elephants do manage to carry there trunks.
I have also been flexing for some few years but am not yet at that big level, since i wanna be normal not too huge. @kitty71

[Apulu_3]

I just want to be healthy and fit. I don't have much time to build muscles also I am lazy to do that.

[pixie215]

no too many gains for me ill look even shorter then 4'11

[TheSpaceGnome]

Thats really unhealthy, I see skin damage and a lot of blood vessel damage on both of them, muscles aren't supposed to be overworked/overgrown like that.
People like this are at higher risk for heart attack, stroke, rapid aging, hairloss, and other health problems.

If your veins start to bulge, your skin dries out, you look like a balloon animal, or you get hairloss, you already went way too far.

[exitseven]

I have been a gym rat my whole life. I had periods of time when I was really dedicated. I had a strict diet and worked out 6 days a week. I was pretty ripped but never got to the point where I could enter a contest. I trained for marathons and that was pretty intense at times.

[Hairylegs222]

Yes I would but only in a natural non drug controlled competition. Being healthy is always my goal. I've been eating healthy and lifting weights for over 12 years consistently so it would be longer workouts per day as the difference, and getting paid to do it.

[Lionman95]

No because it´s oftentimes unhealthy and my genetics and discipline aren´t good enough to maintain the lifestyle plus I don´t see the goal in looking like the guy because there is a limit where too muscles could become a burden.

[MrNameless]

I don't want to make it a complete life style like that guy or Dewayne Johnson. It's not healthy for the heart in the long run.

[sissyalexa]

I don't think I could ever do it myself but I love body builder women 🥰 especially when you see women like Julia vins 😍😍

[Flower7]

No, I have enough trouble keeping up with normal levels of exercise.

[anton_dee]

One has to spend a lot of hours per day in the gym or building/maintaining muscle.

I am a biker and a soccer player, so for me I ain't got that time.

[sean1234]

As long as it doesn't involve steroids and does involve Jesus Christ.

[Babygirl_S]

I don't want to be muscular. I very much enjoy looking feminine.

[kitty71]

Exactly me too

[whosnumber1]

no.. way to much effort. I like staying fit but I have better things to do that stare at my self in the mirror, lift weights and eat tons of food

[Creampiekarl420]

Yes that’s why I’ve been looking to score some quality roids

[ChiTown33]

I wouldn't want to try. Lol

[Jerre]

Nope, not for me. I could not give up sex.

[kitty71]

and do you think body builders do not have sex?

[Jerre]

Not near as much as I do

[Nagatoro]

I wouldn't really want to

[htmndg183]

Maybe if my wife is into this.

[msc545]

Waste of time and unhealthy

[fireforeffect]

I did for many years.

[Xoxocutekitty]

Nope. I'm weak

[pink-jilly]

Of course... not