Hey c’mon now, lets leave the drunks out of this. Some people make a good living off of them!
To the poster who mentioned eating mayo straight out of the jar, that, even I have to admit, and I’ve done some fucked up shit (like trying Matarazzo’s Tuna and Diet Coke shakes back in the day) is kinda hardcore, especially being around a bunch of non lifting females at the time. And fuck, I like mayo, lol.
I do know what you mean though. I’ve drank olive oil in front of people and had them almost vomit. Remember being at work and having a customer freak out because on my break I was eating Corn Flakes with vanilla whey on them instead of milk. Like, this bitch threw a FIT. Some people are just weird.
I do feel a lot of people in general bash bodybuilder’s due to jealousy, or just misunderstanding. Truthfully, a lot of people find pro bodybuilders gross. Even tons of my friends who work out and are actively trying to get bigger find pro level bb’ers disgusting, which I think is generally what people think of when they hear ‘bodybuilding’. I don’t happen to. Training is also addictive to me, just like some say tattoo’s, piercings, etc are for them. Get one, want more. It’s like the more muscle you see added to your frame, the more you want. I can totally understand how guys get to wanting to look like Jay Cutler. Most people will never have that understanding though, hence the ‘anyone that extreme with it must have a tiny cock’ stuff.
As far as people already in a fitness/gym/strength field who bash them, I think that comes down to jealousy. Some people can’t handle the fact that they weren’t born to look superhuman, no matter how much effort they put in, and then concentrate on something else, say, pure strength. “Well, I’m stronger than those guys…”
I’m also sure a LOT of those same people who get into strength sports, etc, way way back, got the initial motivation by seeing guys like Arnold, which is ironic. Before you become educated, you simply think bigger muscles = stronger guy, which you find out later isn’t always necessarily the case. However, all of this ‘bodybuilder’s being weak’ shit has to go. I’ve yet to see a guy 260 ripped lbs that is weak.
And funny enough, it’s never guys like Louie Simmons or any other big time powerlifter I heard spreading that shit, lol. The most I hear them say is they’re weaker comparatively in a lower rep range. It’s always the class IV ‘powerlifter’ that just started ‘doin Westside’ 3 weeks ago that sprout off about that shit. Yeah, some of these guys who can hit 405 on bench for 12 reps may only have a 1rep of like 485-500 (since they don’t spend the time training for the 1 rep), which may be ‘low’ for being able to hit 405 for 12 to 15 , but end results is what we’re talking here, and a 500 lbs bench is not weak by any stretch of the imagination. I don’t give a fuck who you’re talking to.
Even Dave Tate when talking about his like 570 bench in the past said it was puny…BY WESTSIDE STANDARDS. Not puny like it was a pussy number to be throwing up, and that guy had been spending the better part of two decades using max effort days, dynamic days, tons of form work, etc, to get to that point. For some pro’s to be slightly lighter and only like 70-100 lbs under that having spent virtually no time training for a 1 rep is remarkable actually, even taking any drugs/genetics into consideration. I know this wasn’t about powerlifters per say, and I now spend the majority of my training time doing more ‘strength oriented’ type work and in a gym where almost everyone on the PL team is in the top 10 in the nation in their weight class.
I have mucho respect for PL’ers and tend to identify closer with them nowadays than bodybuilders. I just see a lot of guys on the web running their ‘internet traps’ about how weak bodybuilders are, and they usually identify themselves as ‘powerlifters’. Those are the people, to me, where it all comes down to jealousy.