when can you call yourself a bodybuilding/weightlifter/powerlifter

[Admin]

Question for yall.

when do you think is the appropriate amount of training been done so that can call yourself a bodybuilding/weightlifter/powerlifter

Do you need to look a certain way? push a certain amount of weight? live breath eat shit weights? Do you need to do competitions

2nd. What classifies someone as a power lifter vs a bodybuilder?

 

[Bazza20]

When you compete.

 

[CoinFlip]

When the lifestyle and progress honors the title you give yourself.

 

[WarbyD]

You know, I was going to say it was entirely a personal choice based on other sports and participants at a recreational level identifying themselves similarly but when I got thinking about it I think I have to agree with Bazza - it's when you compete.

Cyclists identify themselves as such, without necessarily competing. But I struggle to think of other sports that do the same. People who play grassroots football don't tend to call themselves footballers;people who train in kickboxing recreationally don't usually call themselves a kickboxer; etc etc ..

I guess it is still a personal choice, but I know that if someone said to me "I am a bodybuilder" or "I am a powerlifter" I would take that as meaning they compete, whereas someone saying that they "have an interest in bodybuilding" or "enjoy weightlifting" I don't give that some association.

Food for thought

 

[The Hamburgler]

When you compete.

x 2

 

[Breadcooker]

I kind of agree with Bazza and Warby. There are times when I train and use a bodybuilding or a powerlifting approach....but i would be completely full of shit to class myself as being in either of those two categories.

I guess it is simliar to when one is no longer just an amatuer gynecologist.....

 

[taurus]

probably when you look like me j/k

as [MENTION=6722]Bazza20[/MENTION]; said, when you compete would be ideal. I consider myself someone who enjoys training & dont bracket myself with either bodybuilders or powerlifters.

 

[bull]

I understand Bazza's definition (you have to compete) but I don't believe that everyone who competes is a bodybuilder. In my own case, I have competed about 10 times over 20 years but I've never felt like calling myself a bodybuilder because I have never committed properly to the lifestyle. I love to train but I have never adopted the nutrition side of bodybuilding because it has never been that important to me. I don't consider myself to be a bodybuilder and if people ask I just say that I train like one.

 

[Camo1902]

probably when you look like me j/k

as [MENTION=6722]Bazza20[/MENTION]; said, when you compete would be ideal. I consider myself someone who enjoys training & dont bracket myself with either bodybuilders or powerlifters.

Hahahahaha

Yeah totally agree. I train using powerlifting framework, but I don't compete and have no desire to compete, so I am by no means a powerlifter.

Working for the government we like fancy titles so I consider myself a Strength and Conditioning Aficionado

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[Shrek]

When [MENTION=6722]Bazza20[/MENTION]; says i am. Until then I am just a kunce who lifts weights for no particular reason.

 

[Admin]

so a bodybuilder/powerlifter is someone who competes , so what was the name for "bodybuilding" before there was competitions for it ?

 

[Goosey]

Only when actively competing against others in a federation

Although I've always felt the the term "body-building" has been nebulous.

A power lifter can use/follow a "bodybiulding"template to biuld strength and maintain fatty tissue, from time to time.

 

[Admin]

i guess the question i am asking is , what defines someone who lifts weights from one who sculpts the body ,

 

[Goosey]

so a bodybuilder/powerlifter is someone who competes , so what was the name for "bodybuilding" before there was competitions for it ?

A physical culturalist

They would show feats of strength and represent a healthy lifestyle.

Weider and Hoffman changed that.

 

[jj80]

I suppose the critical milestone in being a powerlifter or bodybuilder is when you start watching youtube videos of them.

 

[Goosey]

i guess the question i am asking is , what defines someone who lifts weights from one who sculpts the body ,

I beleive genetics dictates this.

 

[crf529]

He competed. And won his class.

Certified bodybuilder now?

 

[chopsuey]

Web definitions
someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature.

Taking the above definition into account - regardless of size, length of time training, participating in comps etc - everyone who does these 'special exercises' are body builders.

Maybe there should be 'body builders' and 'professional body builders' - the pro's being the ones who compete?

The term 'body builder' can conjure up thoughts of massive guys / chics with veins popping out of their eye sockets...which isn't always the case.

 

[Big Mick]

Personally I don't think it has anything to do with competing.

By that definition a person training for years with weights all of a sudden becomes a body builder simply by stepping on stage?? What was he three minutes before he competed??

A person training for three months can classify themselves as a body builder even though he looks nothing like the stero typical body builder, but his reason for training, 'mens rea' or intend/ state of mind as well as his 'actus rea' or physical actions will make him a body builder or power lifter or what ever.

I believe it's what you are actually doing and what your intentions are while doing it will decide what you consider yourself.

For me personally in my mind I am neither, I train for my own satisfaction and I do not consider myself a body builder or power lifter, just a guy who trains with weights for general health, well being and enjoyment.

 

[Tregs]

so a bodybuilder/powerlifter is someone who competes , so what was the name for "bodybuilding" before there was competitions for it ?

Manual / Slave labour ??