View Poll Results: Trolls? Do you prefer bans or "Let adults handle their business"?
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03-25-2014, 12:20 PM #1
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What can we do as a bodybuilding community to make Bodybuilding mainstream?
Come on guys don't give the same rubbish excuse it's "Steroids". Come up with solutions and lets work together to make it happen.
Any ideas?
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03-25-2014, 12:33 PM #2
There is one way...but it must not happen...let alone uttered in name...
hints: first word...symbol of christianity
Second word: adjective describing the state of being in shape.Zappatista
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03-25-2014, 12:44 PM #3
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03-25-2014, 12:49 PM #4
Bodybuilding must continue to morph on its own. Even though we see Physique and Bikini paying the tab for contest promoters I believe that they too have hit their saturation point. So what we see is it. Lets be happy to be as popular as beach volleyball. Even in it's heyday, the 70-80s, Bodybuildng was but a fart in a windstorm compared to the sports American couch potatos enjoy watching and participating in such as golf. I love Bodybuilding and care little that it has not become a national pastime.
MY MIND & BODY ARE AT ONE WITH MY POWER & STRENGTH............JM
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03-25-2014, 12:53 PM #5
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Keep building more muscle.
Act like an idiot less in public if you have a lot of muscle.
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03-25-2014, 12:56 PM #6
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It is actually just the opposite. In the 70's, bodybuilding was as much of a nitch sport as you can get. NO ONE knew about it unless they were into it.
It gained in popularity through the 90's and was even on ESPN for a while. If anything, more people follow it now than ever because of the internet.
There was no internet in the 70's and 80's so the ONLY way you even heard of contest results was to wait on a magazine or know someone who competed.
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03-25-2014, 01:00 PM #7
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I mean, hell, you can now follow any of your favorite bodybuilders on freaking facebook.
I remember not knowing who won a contest until the next Flex magazine came out. I know the internet has changed the world, but you can really tell who grew up with it and who grew up without it.
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03-25-2014, 01:10 PM #8
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03-25-2014, 01:27 PM #9
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For men, at least, bodybuilding competition is more popular than ever. More compete in shows, go pro, & establish themselves in the industry than ever before. There are more opportunities for personal training, nutrition counseling, & gym management. You can get the word out on yourself on social media & webpages. More athletes are sponsored by more supplement companies. Now why are people saying that bodybuilding has lost its mojo?
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03-25-2014, 01:30 PM #10
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its not supposed to be mainstream
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03-25-2014, 01:40 PM #11
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03-25-2014, 01:43 PM #12
I guess we could reach out to the world of warcraft population and promise them cordiality and size at our gyms.
Zappatista
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03-25-2014, 02:38 PM #13
X I agree with you 100%.
Why do you want the sport to be mainstream PFA? It does not have the appeal to the average joe that football, basketball, baseball, soccer, or even golf does. I believe that anytime you have a sport which involves a judges decision on who wins, that it limits it's appeal to the masses somehow (kinda like figure skating).
I believe more people are exposed and into the sport now than ever, but at some point there has to be commercial value in order for it to be broadcast on television and I don't see that happening on a large scale network.DON'T BE AVERAGE!!!
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03-25-2014, 03:17 PM #14
It USED to be on television-ABC's Wide World of Sports, CBS Sports Spectacular, NBC, all in the 70-90 time frame. Also starting in 80s til ? -American Muscle, ESPN, etc. Seemed to have all died around 2000-2003. Physiques got bigger and less appealing, competitors less articulate and charismatic, drugs over hard training - not hard to see why. How to reverse it- reverse it.
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03-25-2014, 03:59 PM #15
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Blame baseball. Seriously. It wasn't until Mcgwire and androstenedione that they started pulling it off of television left and right.
When American Muscle first showed, I thought it was about to get real big....but then steroids and baseball brought out the "cheater" crowd.
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