HBO's Real Sports talks about Female Bodybuilding

[John Hansen]

Colette Nelson was one of the bodybuilders featured on the show. Some of the segment was from the 2010 show but they updated it to talk about how the IFBB is phasing out women's bodybuilding to feature women's physique (as well as figure and bikini but they didn't really talk about that).
Did anyone see the show tonight?
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...sday-2/275064/

[Hit-Girl]

Saw that; pretty much an update from the last one. Nothing we don't already know. Less pay, less size, and schmoes.

[swingslammer]

I am really liking physique lately because it reminds me of 80/90s womens Bodybuilding. My worry/wonder is how do you keep it from getting out of control?

Size game/Shred game.

[carrie ann simmons]

I have it DVR-ed, haven't gotten a chance to watch it yet.

[Lee Penman]

The way Bryant Gumbel presents this really does nothing to help the sport of female bodybuilding gain any kind of respect. Right from the intro he twists his words as he talks about the underground world of FBB.
The show itself is pretty much a repeat of the episode four years ago, culling the more sensational aspects with a short update on Colette at the end.
Lets hope this is the last time Gumbel is going to entertain his love of FBB in public. He is winning no friends here......

[carrie ann simmons]

Lee, with the exception of the last little bit with Collette, it WAS a complete repeat. All he did new was touch on the "scaled back" look.

Unfortunately 99% of the "coverage" we (chicks with muscles) get in the media, whether it be a segment like this or a commercial does not show us in a good light because showing sane, normal FBBers doesn't get TV ratings. Which was why I was surprised the first time HBO did this and they used Collette, because she’s shown as pretty normal.

I've gotten a TON of calls from casting agents, writers, etc looking for muscular women for some new reality BS or a "documentary". I have been cast in ZERO. Not because I'm not engaging or well-spoken. Plain and simple I am fuqn BORING. I have a regular job, I don't do sessions, I don't have some strange disorder (be it eating or mental). ALL of them during the interviewing me have tried to “dig deeper” into what drives me and all they wanted to know about is the drugs, sessions, worship etc.


But look at the state of TV. America is obsessed with dumb sh!t. The Kardahians or The Jersey Shore? Really. You think the Armenian-American and Italian-American community are proud of them?