Bodybuilding- A sport or a Culture? You be the Judge. | Anabolic ...

by admin on 29/07/11 at 3:55 pm

It?s really confusing to try and classify body building. Is bodybuilding a sport or a social subculture? Body builders are essentially physique athletes but it seems they have been so self-consumed in the individual muscle search that they have not established a true collective identity. Why has bodybuilding in all its existence years not gone mainstream? At the very most, body building has remained a sequestered field and a selective hardcore venture.

These questions leave us nowhere at all because their answers are as theoretical and philosophical as religion itself. But from a very objective point of view, bodybuilding can be argued as a subculture of the contemporary society, one with a unique set of values and principles. Mainstream bodybuilding has gone commercial, with the body builders with adequately muscled physiques making the highest dollar today. It is a subculture by itself because bodybuilding constitutes a very distinct lifestyle which is very much a way of life.

Being a body builder is not just about going to he gym, it is all about what one eats, what one wears, what one does while at home or work, what one says and how he or she says it. Bodybuilding transforms attitude and perspective to life. That?s why most body builders can never speak of anything else but the industry wherever they are. Some have totally become obnoxious while in social settings because they are full of bodybuilding in their mind and mouth, much to the loathing of those not interested in the world of ?muscle is king?.

In contemporary society, body builders are seen as those individual so centered on physique and appearance that they actually adore muscled bodies as people adore their religious godheads. No successful bodybuilder can afford to be an average person because body builders live in a world of their own no matter how ordinary they try to look or seem. Bodybuilding is therefore, and without question so, a subculture by its own right that brings together like minded (read muscle minded) individuals into a field the ordinary world regards as ?abnormal?.

To the question whether body building is a sport, the answer is very emphatic despite all attempts to be objective. Of course body building is a sport! What defines a sport, is it not a competitive activity that involves two or more parties where each party tries to win the objective against the other parties. Competitive body building is a life long venture in which an individual commits himself or herself to the attainment of muscle mass, definition and strength to such extents as other competitive peers cannot. In here is an element of competition, an element of distinct parties and even an element of the objective. What lacks to make body building a sport like any other?

Body building has a fanatic popularity that surpasses some other mainstream sports like surfing, skateboarding and sumo wrestling. People pay hundreds of dollars to be spectators a body building contest. Champion body builders have a fun base unachievable in most other sports. To say the list, body building deserves to be recognized as a sport more than many other conventionalized sports. World politics and social dogmas only alienate body building from being accepted in the world sport?s circus as a sport but even that can?t last for long.

Source: http://www.newsteroid.com/blog/bodybuilding-a-sport-or-a-culture-you-be-the-judge/

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