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I think you should open more categories Admin.The site is way to basic.This forum is way behind other aussie bb forums. Having less categories means that members are posting the same things.

Maybe look at other websites for ideas, eg anabolex, bodybuilding.com, muscletalk.

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Au contraire*. I think they should look at us instead. The crap that goes on in those forums is sometimes unbearable. I know you posted this a while ago but if we allowed it to follow the path those other forums took we would be the same. We don't want to be the same, we want to be better.
Yeah and 'Bolex, you need to be careful what you post for fear of being flamed, God help the newbies over there.
 
We are paid... in kind.

Those who try to contribute support and advice find that other people want to give them support and advice :)
 
I know it is a body building forum as such, but there have been heaps of posts about strength training, weightlifting and powerlifting, maybe a seperate section dedicated to that would be good, although it may be difficult to keep it seperate.
 
I only frequent this and one other weight training related forum of which I am a moderator.

I like the way this forum is run, it reminds me of the other forum I frequent a few years ago. The members on this forum are still a little green and some comments are incredibly naive, but most are open to instruction.

The title itself can deter people. Very very few people compete at bodybuilding, I'd
say less than .5% of lifters in gyms. A bodybuilder competes, someone curling in the gym is not a bodybuilder.

Its too late now to change the title, so lets simply carry on.

Nice work admin and moderators
 
I like the simplicity.You start adding sub forums and before you know it there are too many with many topics over lapping and making it difficult to decide where to put it.Fewer categories makes it certain your post will be seen.
And the title is fine - you don`t have to be a big behemoth competing to call yourself a bodybuilder.You build your body,you are a body builder.Only the pedants get worked up over that kind of thing.
 
I kick a football in the street, therefore I am a footballer lol

Powerlifters build their bodys up with weights, are they bodybuilders?

Olympic lifters build their bodys up with weights, are they bodybuilders?

I bench press, am I a powerlifter?

Powerlifters, weightlifters and bodybuilders compete.

EVERYONE else that simply trains in a gym is a recreational lifter.

Thats not being pedantic, thats being a realist.

I hate the way that everyone that has a gym membership classes himself as a bodybuilder.

No different to mainstream media that classes every f u c khead that dies while speeding was drag racing. Why not circuit racing?
 
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I like that old name, "physical culture". To me, that brings in more than just having big chesticles, but a balance of strength, fitness, agility, good health, looking good and so on.

But as Markos says it's too late now :)
 
A person who plays football is a footballer.
A person who works out with the intention of building muscle and
does it in a methodical and serious way is a bodybuilder.
Do any of your lifters not compete?Are they not powerlifters then?
Let they person themself decide what they are.
 
Powerlifters build their bodys up with weights, are they bodybuilders?
No, their goal is not to look good, but to lift the heaviest weight possible, they are weight lifters not BBers.

I think that anyone in a gym who sits there doing doing endless sets of curls / machine work with no real direction is a recreational lifter, However most people on here, I consider recreational BBers, trying their hardest to do the right exercises, right diet and so on to get bigger/better looking.
 
i guess it is one of those word that means something different to each person , what is right is what is wrong who is to say?

dictionary.com defines bodybuilding as :
the act or practice of exercising, lifting weights, etc., so as to develop the muscles of the body.

bodybuilder - definition of bodybuilder by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. defines bodybuilding as :
The process of developing the musculature of the body through specific types of diet and physical exercise, such as weightlifting, especially for competitive exhibition.

Bodybuilding, Weight Training, Nutrition and Diet Guidelines from Mr. Universe Dave Draper defines bodybuilding as :
the competitive sport or athletic hobby popularized over the last 60 years of the last century whose goal is to achieve muscular grandeur and symmetry through the activity of exercise (aka muscle building)
 
A custom forum design, rather then the default VB skin world be cool.
 
Yes Admin and Morgan,exactly what I was trying to say.
FWIW I don`t consider myself a body builder.For me it is about
looking and feeling good and building muscle is just a bi-product.
I`m not so strict on myself about it but for you others who are
I consider you to be BB`s.Yet I still come to a BB forum to get and
share info and just shoot the sh#t with like minded people.I think
I will be a BB one day whether I compete or not or reach a certain
size or not.
 
It's worth considering having subforums for the decent gyms we know of - PTC in Victoria, Shire in NSW, and so on.

That way the members there will be inclined to join our forum and contribute right across and they can also have their own little space to say "okay who nicked my towel on Thursday?" or whatever :)

We don't need subforums for the ordinary gyms, just the ones with lots of people getting results. Of course, you could have subforums for the gyms that sponsor the forum, a bit like you have official site advertisers for supplements. So that's something could help the forum keep going.
 
I am on several forums and mainly participate in two. On BB.com there is athread about supps for aussies and whats getting through. It has more porn and degrading filth on there than you can possibly imagine. This is not body building, over 120 pages of this crap. Body Building forums should be about the body building lifestyle. This is a good forum and does not need to much improving. You could have a underground products section, that only posters with a certain number of posts can access.
AZZA
 
I went back to BB.com last night actually. Far out that place is a joke. I read the "new posts" page and commented on one thread and thought this place sucks!

I have a suggestion, could you make the PM boxes larger?
 
It's worth considering having subforums for the decent gyms we know of - PTC in Victoria, Shire in NSW, and so on.

That way the members there will be inclined to join our forum and contribute right across and they can also have their own little space to say "okay who nicked my towel on Thursday?" or whatever :)

We don't need subforums for the ordinary gyms, just the ones with lots of people getting results. Of course, you could have subforums for the gyms that sponsor the forum, a bit like you have official site advertisers for supplements. So that's something could help the forum keep going.

i was considering that , but didn't want to run into the problem of an US vs them , little subgroups that don't venture out of their own little area
 
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