QUESTION 12: Can Bodybuilding Be Fun? 

 

What you don't know is that most people go about gaining muscle or burning fat 

completely the wrong way.  Not only in the technical aspects of it but they don't 

have any fun doing it. It's a stinking chore to go to the gym.  They hate the food part. 

It's a nightmare and any excuse they can find not to go, they'll find it. 

This is why about April, all the New Year's people are gone. 

Fun.  That's right.  It's called the Romantic Stage. You know what I'm talking about right? 
The romantic stage of fitness where it‟s fun to get in shape.  You pick up a weight, you 

did bicep curls everyday and you liked it. Nobody was coaching you telling you were 

doing things wrong. It was enjoyable.  You were excited to just workout.

You want to know why I was able to keep working out 16+ years and hardly miss a beat? 

Because I enjoyed fitness. I wasn't criticized for the way in which I worked out.

If I worked biceps every day, nobody told me otherwise. If I did the wrong chest exercise,

nobody said boo. It was fun. I loved it! I started out in the romantic phase of fitness and 

beat to the rhythm of my own drummer.  While some might call me a fool (that's fine), 

I consider it the single MOST important reason why I have made fitness part of my life. 

Simply because I was allowed to enjoy it until I was ready to move to the next step. 

Once I learned more about strength training, I started to get more into the technical 

phase of and then when I learned I was doing something wrong, it wasn't such a big deal. 

I wanted to get better.  I didn't drop out and quit because I was discouraged.

I had a lot of fun doing it. 

Soon enough I entered the mature phase where I'm performing at a high level. 

Imagine when you started learning about all this technical mumbo jumbo, using belts, 

straps, and nutrient ratios and maybe at that point you dropped out.  It wasn't fun anymore. 

People were always saying that whatever you were doing wasn't the right way. 

Bodybuilding can be extremely fun. Being active, getting in shape should be enjoyable. 

Learning about it as you go along should be interesting and not the worst thing

you've ever done in your life.