Bodybuilding not taken seriously

[Jannes]

I have largely outgrown my gymrat phase but somehow this stayed with me as it just flashed my memory. 

This is an interesting intersection. Ego meets non ego. Masculinity integrates femininity. Survival meets non survival. Mind meets artistic expression from the heart. 

 

Edited 21 hours ago by Jannes

[Ramasta9]

When i was 17 - 21 I was caught up in this phase, following my friends, it almost killed me, then I had major awakening and quit all animal products, processed foods, gyms, powders, and almost everything from my old life. The only things I still play with from that era are psychedelics.

Its basically a death trap, all my friends my age mid 30s, who continue that path have a head full of grey hair and aged like they look 40 - 50.

Their bodies fall apart when they stop training, especially those who took steroids, luckily i was always afraid of needles.

But then again all those shakes, and powders and pre-workouts full of toxic chemicals are not much different.

I actually knew zyss and his group, they had the biggest ego's of all, and several of them died of heart-attack.

Bodybuilding is literally like the inflamed-ego in physical form / manifestation.

As deformed as they look, as inflamed the ego.

 

[Jannes]

19 minutes ago, Ramasta9 said:

When i was 17 - 21 I was caught up in this phase, following my friends, it almost killed me, then I had major awakening and quit all animal products, processed foods, gyms, powders, and almost everything from my old life. The only things I still play with from that era are psychedelics.

Its basically a death trap, all my friends my age mid 30s, who continue that path have a head full of grey hair and aged like they look 40 - 50.

Their bodies fall apart when they stop training, especially those who took steroids, luckily i was always afraid of needles.

But then again all those shakes, and powders and pre-workouts full of toxic chemicals are not much different.

Mmmh you can do it in a healthy way which makes you age more gracefully. You need to really overtrain and take stupid shit to fuck your body up I feel like. 

I want to be that grandpa who can still squat, imagine the extra life quality. 

19 minutes ago, Ramasta9 said:

I actually knew zyss and his group, they had the biggest ego's of all, and several of them died of heart-attack.

Whoa, you mind sharing some stories?

[Ramasta9]

27 minutes ago, Jannes said:

Mmmh you can do it in a healthy way which makes you age more gracefully. You need to really overtrain and take stupid shit to fuck your body up I feel like. 

I want to be that grandpa who can still squat, imagine the extra life quality. 

Whoa, you mind sharing some stories?

Yeah I am in more alignment with what this guy shares and have been for some years now. I just do simple things, pushups, squats, abs, running, rebounding, dancing randomly throughout the day. Just to keep some activity when I am living at home, its amazing how less = more.

Its all about play for me, always has been, as soon as its no longer fun and playful, i drop it.

And yeah well I didn't know them too well personally, but they mostly did steroids, took viagra, basically were in competition mode with themselves and their own ego's and others just to go to stereosonic and music festivals to show off and pick up chicks. That all they focused on.

Looks, photoshoots, girls, drugs, parties - the short lived life

[AION]

I never focused on looking buffed since I'm into martial arts and big muscles are a disadvantage. Those buffed up dudes are the easiest to defeat since they are training themselves to lift shit. I mean if you are construction worker. Those muscles can come in handy but for most use cases they are useless and make you age faster too.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

There is serious work and dedication going on with these guys. The drugs give them the edge. I think most people just claim the PEDs are responsible but there is WORK.

I used to have a free membership to Doherty's Gym and met Ashley Kultwasser, Janet Layug, Phil Heath, Brendan Curry & Shawn Rhoden (RIP). The men were mutant monsters and the women were so muscular - the images of them do not do them justice. So freaky in real life. I met them in Sydney and Melbourne on different occasions.

It is VERY unhealthy, obsessive and I would almost say borderline eating disorder/body dysmorphia territory. But there is a fine line between those issues and single minded crazy dedication. I wouldn't want to be them. 

The olympia boys in particular - it's just a freakshow to see how big and ripped the human body can go. They were abusing insuline HGH and all sorts of PEDs.