Does Bikini make the IFBB a joke?

[Zane85]

As the title suggests, is this the end of the IFBB? And bodybuilding?

Will the bikini take over the IFBB because its more mainstream and bodybuilding will be phased out and slimed down to fitness models prancing about?

[wenzel]

is there a arm floats class in a swimming competition ??
is there a stabilizer wheels class at the tour de france ??

[Bryan Hildebrand]

no, because in every gm in this country, someone is trying to get bigger. bigger equates bodybuilding, not prancing.

[tiramisu]

The IFBB is already a joke with it's inability to test athletes for massive drug abuse. Some T&A is just another act for the freak show.

North American bodybuilding has been broken for a long long time and it's not likely to get magically fixed any time soon.

[Zane85]

I mean will bodybuilding as a competition. Not as an activity that will never die.

[GREENMACHINE23]

I mean will bodybuilding as a competition. Not as an activity that will never die.

There will always be bodybuilding competitions.

[GREENMACHINE23]

As the title suggests, is this the end of the IFBB? And bodybuilding?

Will the bikini take over the IFBB because its more mainstream and bodybuilding will be phased out and slimed down to fitness models prancing about?

No.

[the mighty stu]

At risk of offending someone (which will always happen anyway), I just can't take it seriously. Not when the female BBers and figure competitors actually train hard, and diet for months on end... and then some skinny chick with a recent set of implants walks onstage in a bikini, after a couple of weeks in the gym 'training', and gets a pro-card. It's almost disrespectful.

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[MiamiMadePunk]

The IFBB is already a joke with it's inability to test athletes for massive drug abuse. Some T&A is just another act for the freak show.

North American bodybuilding has been broken for a long long time and it's not likely to get magically fixed any time soon.

It's true the IFBB don't test thier athletes and we don't know if all the bikini girls are natural and we never know if that T&A is really AAS&T&A but all I can tell you is that the bikini division is very scientific if you think about. In bikini, you pretty much have to lose fat in the right places(not a fat spot reduce response) and not get too hard or too soft to win, and now some of the bikini girls are using a keto approach to get rid of a small percentage of body fat in certain areas to balance out the body. Will the bikini division in the IFBB go mainstream, no, the only way the bikini division in the IFBB go mainstream is by drug testing all the athletes by the olympic commitee which requires a lot of money. And if the bikini division goes mainstream and not drug test, we pretty much don't know if getting that physique requires a little AAS and we question ourselves at the beach and wonder if all the guys and girls at the beach are really natural or using AAS to get that physique.

[Rick Prince]

A) Does Bikini make the IFBB a joke? So far, yes. What the judges are awarding to this point is not different than what I have seen at Hooters and Hawaiian bikini contests.

B) As the title suggests, is this the end of the IFBB? No


C) And bodybuilding? No

[Triple-H_2005]

If they start serving hot wings during the Bikini Round, then it won't be a joke. It'll be Hooters, the place this shit belongs to begin with.

[james001]

Bikini division is awesome. A w e s o m e. . .

[Triple-H_2005]

Above, we can see a textbook example of the new "Stand There Like You Want That Fat Cock" mandatory pose in the bikini division.

All they need is a silver pole in the middle of the stage.

[james001]

Just lovely...

[Rick Prince]

Bikini division is awesome. A w e s o m e. . .

Yep, the girls are awesome and I enjoy looking at them.
But, the bikini division has made the shows longer and if you are a competitor sitting around waiting backstage, it's no fun.