Do you think bodybuilding is a useless sport?

[blowfish1235325]

The fitness youtuber, who broke various weight lifting and strength records, challenged a Hawaiian slap champion and lost in one slap. What do you think about this issue?

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[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Bodybuilding is not a strength or fitness competition and I think that’s the crux of the issue. Bodybuilding is a beauty competition, it’s meant to highlight specific muscles and male body beauty standards. The problem is because a lot of men hate the idea of being in a beauty contest bc it conflicts with their masculine ideals they say that’s not what it is, that it’s muscle definition and literally building the body. I would never, ever expect a bodybuilder to successfully compete in a strong man competition, an actual strength competition. This is because bodybuilding requires you to live in a constant calorie deficit and that’s what highlights the muscles. This isn’t healthy, your body knows that isn’t healthy, and people who body build live very disciplined lived that revolve around their food schedules because they’re quite literally starving themselves to achieve that beauty standard. Strong men don’t do this, they overeat and build muscle strong enough to pull a train car. Bodybuilding is the masculine equivalent of a beauty pageant and of course if they try to fight with a body that’s undernourished against someone who’s similarly fit and trained with a healthy weight, they’re going to lose most of the time. It’s not a useless sport, but if we’re calling it a sport then so are beauty pageants.

[dustybiker2]

Its saved my friends life. He also was hit by a semi doing fifty mpg's. Mine was three months after his. Doctors told both of us we survived because he was heavy into body building and I was heavy into taekwondo. It shows consistent exercise to keep you in top fitness is worth the efforts.

[blowfish1235325]

get well soon

[ItsMariusz]

Bodybuilding is not entirely useless, it comes with it's own benefits. However, martial arts is way better.

[EmmaMary]

Personally I've never been able to see any purpose in it... However, to each their own.

[Little_Bumblebee]

If people enjoy it, then it's not useless.

[jahaims]

Anything sport can be considered useless

[In_Trance]

All sports are useless sports

[KelsoAlexander]

Its a male beauty pageant not a sport