Do any of you plan to compete in fitness or bodybuilding shows

[Steel Oni]

Do any of you have aspirations to compete on the bodybuilding or fitness stage when you reach a point in your training? I've been giving it some thought and about 80% sure of competing.

[spezzy]

i don't... but my goal is performance.

i have no desire to ever get my bodyfat low enough to do bodybuilding competitions.

(ok, or the desire to actually do the competitions either )

[Knightwatch]

Nah, unless you consider Crossfit competitions to be a fitness show. Gyms will regularly hold "throwdowns", where they invite/challenge other boxes to visit their facility and run though a couple workouts and see who boasts the best athletes, but they're really more about going and meeting folks and having fun. Those, I'll continue doing when I can.

[Lowenna]

Nope, don't really have any desire to get that much muscle. Also not very competitive.

Much prefer stuff like yoga and climbing, hoping to take up a martial art and parkour as I get fitter. The things I like tends to be about beating your former self rather than other people.

The only competitions I can ever possibly see myself competing in are martial arts ones, but that is a very long way off and far from certain.

[spezzy]

Nah, unless you consider Crossfit competitions to be a fitness show. Gyms will regularly hold "throwdowns", where they invite/challenge other boxes to visit their facility and run though a couple workouts and see who boasts the best athletes, but they're really more about going and meeting folks and having fun. Those, I'll continue doing when I can.

see, i would do performance type competitions like that... as some of you guys know, i may or may not be very competitive

but couldn't do the body image fitness stage type things... just not my style.

I know a few people who do them, and they love it, but its a totally different type of thing.

[NukeTheUnicorns]

not bodybuilding, but if I ever get strong enough (so ten years from now ) I'd definitely like to compete in an amateur powerlifting competition or something.

[Raincloak]

I'd challenge my friends to an obstacle course for the fun of it, if one were available. I'm also eyeballing a potential job application that involves a strenuous fitness test (which I'm pretty sure is competitive).

But formal bodybuilding competition? Not interested. I'm not even convinced that's a real sport. It's like beauty pageants but for muscles, right?

[Knightwatch]

Oh, it's a sport. Very much so. There's actually a lot of technique that goes into the poses, and the routines will drain you more than any workout. It's pretty ridiculous, actually, what kind of laser-focus you need in the weeks leading up to the event and the night itself.

I have no interest in it myself, and find the whole thing off-putting, but it is most definitely an intense athletic event, and I gotta respect their discipline and self-control, mentally and physically.