Honestly! Do you ever wish.........

**coaltrain** · 10-27-2010, 08:29 PM

You would have spent more time, money, energy, ect into something that yielded a better return on investment rather than bodybuilding?

Young guys please don't reply because at your stage in life most of you don't really know what's important and it will change as you get older.

**Timbo89** · 10-27-2010, 08:35 PM

Yes and no

All the money I spent on supps and food could have went to investments and such
But then look at all the people who think they're spending their money wisely and still end up dirt poor as a result of the stock markets or a shitty real estate investment.
My body will be with me all my life, the least I can do is be happy with it.

**coaltrain** · 10-27-2010, 08:39 PM

Originally Posted by Timbo89

Yes and no

All the money I spent on supps and food could have went to investments and such
But then look at all the people who think they're spending their money wisely and still end up dirt poor as a result of the stock markets or a shitty real estate investment.
My body will be with me all my life, the least I can do is be happy with it.

Great point. But have you lived a healthy lifestyle because of bodybuilding with no regrets? I only ask because I would have to answer this question with a no. I look better than most but what is that really worth in the long run?

**Triple-H_2005** · 10-27-2010, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by Timbo89

Yes and no

All the money I spent on supps and food could have went to investments and such
But then look at all the people who think they're spending their money wisely and still end up dirt poor as a result of the stock markets or a shitty real estate investment.
My body will be with me all my life, the least I can do is be happy with it.

I agree with this.

I will say, however, that there are many times that I wish I didn't care. I often wish that I could just be a fat tub of shit and not give a damn, like most people in this world.

I'd love to eat a cheeseburger at noon on a Wednesday and not feel like I just cheated on my girlfriend.

Actually, I'd just love to eat the cheeseburger for lunch on a Wednesday...I can't do it. Even in the offseason.

**The Big Sexy** · 10-27-2010, 08:44 PM

I really don't think I need to tell people what I wish I could spend all of my time and money doing... do I?

**~gymdiva~** · 10-27-2010, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by Triple-H_2005

I agree with this.

I will say, however, that there are many times that I wish I didn't care. I often wish that I could just be a fat tub of shit and not give a damn, like most people in this world.

I'd love to eat a cheeseburger at noon on a Wednesday and not feel like I just cheated on my girlfriend.

Actually, I'd just love to eat the cheeseburger for lunch on a Wednesday...I can't do it. Even in the offseason.

no but I believe in 10 days you can and probably will!

**Wh1teruss1an** · 10-27-2010, 08:46 PM

Originally Posted by Triple-H_2005

I'd love to eat a cheeseburger at noon on a Wednesday and not feel like I just cheated on my girlfriend.

For real! I always feel so ashamed if I have to eat something bad. lol

**Triple-H_2005** · 10-27-2010, 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by ~gymdiva~

no but I believe in 10 days you can and probably will!

Baby, you ain't kidding!

The Sunday after my show, I am going to eat with reckless abandon! 24 hours of culinary debauchery!!!

**Triple-H_2005** · 10-27-2010, 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by Wh1teruss1an

For real! I always feel so ashamed if I have to eat something bad. lol

I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels this way!

**~gymdiva~** · 10-27-2010, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by Triple-H_2005

Baby, you ain't kidding!

The Sunday after my show, I am going to eat with reckless abandon! 24 hours of culinary debauchery!!!

that probably shouldn't turn me on but it does

**fdiesel** · 10-27-2010, 08:48 PM

yep wish i played baseball/football more seriously instead of going to the gym

**Minnphat** · 10-27-2010, 08:51 PM

hahahaha I 100% agree its a bad addiction... unless you have great genetics or your on gear it must be fun however if your natural reasults are SLOW time in does not equal the results you get.... but since we are addicted either way we will be mesirable.... if we can fat and out of shape its sucks... dieting... lifting... and cardio... sucks.... who knows.... but yess agree 100% wish i picked video games...

**joe d** · 10-27-2010, 08:55 PM

i spent thousands of dollars and thousands of hours to nearly kill myself and give it all up but i dont regret it at all. i have a whole new appreciation for life and i enjoy my training and healthy life style more than i ever enjoyed my intense body building. without my past i wouldnt be where i am now.

**coaltrain** · 10-27-2010, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by joe d

i spent thousands of dollars and thousands of hours to nearly kill myself and give it all up but i dont regret it at all. i have a whole new appreciation for life and i enjoy my training and healthy life style more than i ever enjoyed my intense body building. without my past i wouldnt be where i am now.

That's a great way to look at it but don't you wish you didn't have to learn the hard way? I always found myself defending bodybuilding from the uneducated naysayers but as I get older the more I look at what was said the more ignorant I feel for defending certain aspects of it. Now and wish I would have had the foresight to invest my time a little more wisely. Still hitting the gym hard, but not with the unwavering resolute dedication that negatively affected other aspects of my life. i.e. social

**GENESIS** · 10-27-2010, 09:15 PM

No.

I base my decision off of a buddy of mine that was in pretty much the same situation as me as far as their life goes. For instance, we would always go to the gym when we were younger. We were both were working out for a while and both seeing great results. As the results slowed, other factors (partying, recreational drugs) were evenly presented to the both of us, and they affected us differently. Now, i have had my fun and didn't immediately shut those factors out of my life. But, through that process, lifting weights remained a staple. I remember going to the gym with a hangover from hell, but still grinding the weights.

Fast forward 5 years....

That same buddy of mine has now been arrested 3 times.... twice for drug dealing and once for DUI... I have not. I kept working, i kept working out. And... somehow.... through it all.... at the young age of 22 have even managed to purchase a franchise of the largest health and nutrition stores in the world. I have worked hard with what i have been given. But guess what? My physique continues to bring me more customers each day in the gym. His physique? Has withered away to nothing and he is even losing his hair from the continued stress of drug dealing. Im VERY happy with the path i have chosen in life.