Is bodybuilding as much a "sport" as other traditional sports?

[asdf123]

I firmly believe that weight training is NOT as athletic as other sports such as basketball. Eating, resting, and resistence training are all parts of every sport, except whereas in here that's the extent of their practice, other athletes have to actually learn the movements to compete.

 

[MassTurk]

I pm'd naps no free shit for you keep up you fucking troll

 

[asdf123]

I pm'd naps no free shit for you keep up you fucking troll

Again, I don't care. GP is underdosed.

 

[Undertow333]

WTF

 

[psychocircus]

the only thing that makes bodybuiding different than other sports is the actual day of competition.

 

[dnoyez]

Go find Milos sarcev if you know who he is..pay him if you got the cash and do a good run through his gaint sets routine and then come back and say that bodybuilding is not athletic.


sport


/spôrt/


noun

noun: sport; plural noun: sports



1.



an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.

"team sports such as baseball and soccer"


synonyms: (competitive) game(s), physical recreation, physical activity, physical exercise, athletics; More


pastime

"we did a lot of sports"




•
dated

entertainment; fun.

"it was considered great sport to trip him up"


synonyms: fun, pleasure, enjoyment, entertainment, amusement, diversion More


"they were rogues out for a bit of sport"




•
archaic

a source of amusement or entertainment.

"I do not wish to show myself the sport of a man like Williams"





2.



informal

a person who behaves in a good or specified way in response to teasing, defeat, or a similarly trying situation.

 

[Big_paul]

Bodybuilding is an art a science, and a way of life. Only the most disciplined will excell.

 

[Demondosage]

Bodybuilding is not a sport, a sport is a competitive event with an unpredictable outcome, bodybuilding is subjective and political. Lifestyle yes, sport? Nope

 

[Demondosage]

Yea go find Milo, and let me know where he's locked up now

 

[shenky]

this is probably an unpopular opinion, but I think BB'ing is a lifestyle.

The contest / show portion is like a beauty pageant. Just not into it. Sport? No, Contest. It's a contest. Is a talent show a sport?

The closest thing bodybuilding will ever get to a sport is Power Lifting.

 

[corageon]

this is probably an unpopular opinion, but I think BB'ing is a lifestyle.

The contest / show portion is like a beauty pageant. Just not into it. Sport? No, Contest. It's a contest. Is a talent show a sport?

The closest thing bodybuilding will ever get to a sport is Power Lifting.

Actually, being "bodybuilding lifestyle" is a very common Phrase, and not just for reference, but being made as the title or part of titles in books, articles and etc. I would say that bodybuilding being viewed as lifestyle, is not only *Common, but also beginning to outweigh the idea that it is a Sport!

While the sting of the term bodybuilding is seen in the media; often being portrayed as a temporary blast "career", transforming one into being a 2-300 pound human "freak", it is being accepted everywhere else as a very healthy lifestyle, even by many universities.

 

[Millard]

sport

/spôrt/

noun

noun: sport; plural noun: sports

1. an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.

Sure, by this definition, bodybuilding is a sport.

"An activity involving physical exertion and skill [posing and flexing to display muscle development and definition] in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment."

The competition isn' the training involved. That's the preparation. It's what's done on stage during bodybuilding contests. And that is what defines it as a sport.

Whether the skills involved in posing and flexing is sufficiently interesting to captivate most sports fans is another question.

 

[goodguygreg]

I don't believe bodybuilders are athletes

 

[Oregongearhead]

I don't believe bodybuilders are athletes

They call Nascar drivers athletes .......sitting on your ass in a hot car at 200mph going round & round sound more like an athlete to all of you?

 

[goodguygreg]

I like to lift things up and put them down

 

[dper726]

bodybuilding is a sport, and equal in competition as anything else. you have a season where you prepare until the show (the big game). bodybuilding is also year round, there is no offseason like some like to call it. Just because its a different style of competition doesn't make it any less of a sport as basketball, football , ect.